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SpinningCloud

Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:16 pm

I charge 3k per slice...weapon or armor. Twice someone has said no...and it was the same person both times.

Why would anyone charge differently for weapon and armor? same expense in tools, same amount of time to slice...don't understand that one...

Not sure why i understand why anyone charges on a sliding scale either. Most customers don't write down the starting stats nor check the final ones against what % you told them. So a sliding scale just encourages abuse. Fixed price...I'm sure not going to carry the brunt of SOEs little random number generator. Havent you people ever heard of passing your cost (ie. the chance %) on to the customer?

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Xeranx

Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:31 pm

#15

I'm losing money because slcing is so borked. I would charge 100cr/%, but with the way slices are going. I'm more inclined ot charge on a successful slice than a horrible one. I sliced 6 pieces of composite today and got some crappy 19% slices on encumberance. I was so pissed I just told him to keep the money. The devs need to fix slicing. I cannot, at slicing IV, work on armor and weapons slicing at 10%.

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Glast

Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:34 pm

#16

I charge 5k per weapon or armor slice, If they don't like it they can find someone else, it's not really worth my time for less. Plus I have picked up other business endeavors instead of just slicing, but it's nice money for what it's worth.

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Harddays

Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:54 am

#17

I use the 100c per % as well. Im on Lowca.

Bibby-CH

Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:41 am

#18

I did 50cr per point increased any slice under 20% was free until I hit master. You will make enough to kep going but definetly will not get rich. At master I charge 2k for a slice under 20% is free and I Do Great!!

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FujiSensei

Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:19 am

#19

on shadowfire prices are pretty low. i charge 1k flat fee for any weapon or armor piece slice. if i get a slice under 20 percent i don't charge them out of professional pride. i also try to never slice a container no matter how much they offer because too many novices are looking for em.

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TsN-Wizzer

Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:00 am

#20

I am on bloodfin and Once I hit master I started doing 150 per % for 4 or less items. 100cr per % from 5 or more and any repeat Biz gets the 100 price. Kinda Hard to comprehend at first but I have a pretty good customer base there. and most of the time the 150 price gets rounded down to the nearest 500 mark.

Make sense?

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zeroday

Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:10 am

#21

If you have 10 people waiting to get slicing done, how much time do you spend actually on slicing and how much time is spent calculating and verifying with a mathematically challenged customer what the fee is?

Gaidoku

CowboyBothan

Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:05 am

#22

2k flat fee, when I have 5 people in line I don't have to sit around telling people how much they owe me. I've found that to be pretty close to standard on Gorath, and have never gotten a price complaint. I don't usually advertise either if I throw on the slicer title I get too many people asking for a slice as it is.

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Bolehcim

Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:11 am

#23

Jerolda here,

Business is booming. Currently charing 2k/slice, and people are beating down my door on SunRunner for slices. Logged in 20 hours over the last 3 days, and 16 of that was spent in house slicing or waiting for customers to arrive. Used 5 crates of AUKs and 9 crates of WUKs. I have pulled up all my harvesters and pay others for copper now.

Thinking of changing to 3k/slice since it consumes so much of my time, and I want a very large nest egg for when the space expansion comes out.

Jerolda - Master Smuggler

TsN-Wizzer

Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:15 am

#24

zeroday wrote:

If you have 10 people waiting to get slicing done, how much time do you spend actually on slicing and how much time is spent calculating and verifying with a mathematically challenged customer what the fee is?

Gaidoku

Easy, I have a Calc sitting next to my Keyboard. as I slice, I input the Numbers. Then if it comes out
Example: 33% slice X 150cr per = 4950. Personaly, I round that down to 4500 or even 4k even.

Keep in mind. This is Only for First Time Customers and I let them know that Repeat Biz gets a Discount. Multiple Items Gets a Discount. I have even gone down to 50 creds per percentage for Regular Customers (Once again, Calc on hand.)

I have quite a few Loyal Customers now.

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Lelu_Eclipse

Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:29 am

#25

I charge 100cr per % sliced, slices below 20% are free. I also have regular bulk customers, mainly armorsmiths who I charge a flat fee of 2k per slice and they supply the AUKs. If I want to do anything else I have to drop my tag and go anon. I don't do that very often because I don't mind slicing out in the middle of nowhere. Just don't train me!

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DrevenStrobe

Mon Sep 22, 2003 8:43 am

#26

I've tried various pricing schemes myself...but since I made Master, the number of /tells that I recieve has gone up considerably. So, I made pricing easy on myself...2500 per slice. I ran some numbers and figured my average was going to be around 25% anyway...so instead of going with the 100 creds / %, I just made it a flat 2500.

Surprisingly, my price has actually gone DOWN as I went UP the Slice tree. At Slice 2, I was charging 3k per slice...this was before they fixed the Slice 4 bug. At Slice 4, I adopted the 100 cr / % pricing scheme...which worked pretty well for the amount of business I was doing. Now, at Master, I'm back to a flat rate again...and doing alot of business...

I'll stick with this pricing for now, and if they give us some added perks to slicing in the future, I'll adjust accordingly.

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