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Thread: How much should I charge for faction points?

bpphantom
Wed May 04, 2005 7:34 am
#14






Oopsi wrote:


oh... didn't knewinspiration buff is good for selling faction points ... maybe i'll lower the price a little bit... but need to think about it







What?! Lower? Oh no... you get the buff, sell the FP and make a little extra. Be sure to tip your Entertainer with some of that.


Lower prices. Pssht!







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zazo
Wed May 04, 2005 7:44 am
#15






Oopsi wrote:






bpphantom wrote:





Oopsi wrote:


oh... didn't knewinspiration buff is good for selling faction points ... maybe i'll lower the price a little bit... but need to think about it







What?! Lower? Oh no... you get the buff, sell the FP and make a little extra. Be sure to tip your Entertainer with some of that.


Lower prices. Pssht!








Ok. You are right. I think one of the most important thing in a smuggler's life should beprofit. Maybe 110cr/fp are low enough. After all we smugglers dont any price dumping on Infinity. And i am sure that's the same for other servers.



all things considared its a fair price if people will pay slicing is broke and we are losing spices so...what else is there?




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SwenLaransa
Wed May 04, 2005 8:10 am
#16

As a side note, if your customer has entertainer buffs they *also* will get a 10% bonus on the faction given to them. This is something else I offer people if they whine about the price.




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KyrYxus
Wed May 04, 2005 9:30 am
#17

I'm just getting ready to start selling and I plan on charging 120 cpu, simply because of the new low population due to people unwilling to give the CU a fair shot. Otherwise I would charge 130.



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fishbrains
Wed May 04, 2005 9:35 am
#18



KyrYxus wrote:
I'm just getting ready to start selling and I plan on charging 120 cpu, simply because of the new low population due to people unwilling to give the CU a fair shot. Otherwise I would charge 130.



With the boom in faction armor I am expecting toward the tail end of next weekend there will be a new large FP selling market. I've allready sold about 70k FP since the CU at 125 cpp. Mainly to AS though.



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Alpha_Bits
Wed May 04, 2005 10:13 am
#19

Okay... so now I'm wondering something...


I only started actually selling faction because I only recently got to a respectable rank (Major)... I've been living off of slicing for quite a while. I started slicing at 2K per slice and read everywhere in the forums how we shouldn't be charging so little for our services, we're undercutting fellow smugglers, etc, etc... and how a 'standard' charge for slicing was 8-10K.


But now I'm hearing lots of people saying 'don't rip off other players, sell faction for close to cost'.


Are the faction peddlers not the slicers? What's the deal, y'all?



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fishbrains
Wed May 04, 2005 10:17 am
#20



Alpha_Bits wrote:
Okay... so now I'm wondering something...
I only started actually selling faction because I only recently got to a respectable rank (Major)... I've been living off of slicing for quite a while. I started slicing at 2K per slice and read everywhere in the forums how we shouldn't be charging so little for our services, we're undercutting fellow smugglers, etc, etc... and how a 'standard' charge for slicing was 8-10K.
But now I'm hearing lots of people saying 'don't rip off other players, sell faction for close to cost'.
Are the faction peddlers not the slicers? What's the deal, y'all?



yer a smuggler, it's all about the creds, sell for what the market will support. As long as you get yours.......



Joras 'Godfather' Kal'lan/Aethen Dor

Master Smuggler/Master Officer
Sunrunner's Elder Smuggler


bpphantom
Wed May 04, 2005 10:41 am
#21

As long as people will pay your price, you're not charging too much. That goes for everything.

Works in the real world too



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EnderUK
Wed May 04, 2005 10:59 am
#22






Oopsi wrote:






bpphantom wrote:





Oopsi wrote:


oh... didn't knewinspiration buff is good for selling faction points ... maybe i'll lower the price a little bit... but need to think about it







What?! Lower? Oh no... you get the buff, sell the FP and make a little extra. Be sure to tip your Entertainer with some of that.


Lower prices. Pssht!








Ok. You are right. I think one of the most important thing in a smuggler's life should beprofit. Maybe 110cr/fp are low enough. After all we smugglers dont any price dumping on Infinity. And i am sure that's the same for other servers.





arhhh someone else the types in yellow. Shuuu you shuuuu I tell thee!


I haven't seen anyone right in blue and it's really hard to read


I don't like this colour


I've seen red and this pink as well


damn it yellow is mine





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Ihovo
Thu May 05, 2005 3:51 am
#23


EDIT: ok, forget it, I got it now.

Message Edited by Ihovo on 05-05-2005 04:53 AM

Lekxsie
Thu May 05, 2005 12:32 pm
#24






bpphantom wrote:

As long as people will pay your price, you're not charging too much. That goes for everything.

Works in the real world too






here here!

As noted earlier, I charge 150k for 1k of FP. Slicing varies. It was 5k a slice (for Imp.) and anything under 20% was free. If you were rebel-scum, I charged 7k a slice, and still anything under 20% was free. Now w/ the CU I haven't gotten much of any business. And I think I will take the advice and charge my slices on how well a weapon is made. Armor should have a flat rate but I always give Imperial Discounts





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