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Thread: Guys. KEEP UP THE PRICES FOR A SLICE!!
Anarchy99 wrote:
The DOC's are starting to raise their prices, why shouldn't we charge for our skillzzzzz?
The Docs can guarantee their results. When I pay a doctor 10k for a set of buffs, he can tell me how large the buff will be and how long it will last before he applies it.
A Smuggler expects the same amount and he can't even tell me what type of slice it will be, let alone the amount?
Sorry, but I invest a considerable amount of money into my equipment and when I get it sliced I'm doing so to improve the weapon or armor. I don't need an encumbrance slice on my lightweight comp and I don't need a speed slice on my pistols, thank you. If you deliver what I need (especially if the bonus is high) I tip generously. If you can't, you get the base rate. If that base rate is exorbitant, I get a friend or guildie to do it for me for freeand you make nothing.
I agree that slicers can certainly justify charging more than the old "100 cr per %" standard, but if you want to charge a large flat rate for a slice, you'd better be able to consistently deliver results. Since slicing is totally random, you can't.
Remember that your customers will expect to get what they pay for.
Shaan'ti Hokai (Kauri) 
KnightHawk420 wrote:master smugglers are rather hard to find nowadays.....
what server are you on? on kettemoor last ngiht there were 5 masters in coronet when i was there, i got no business even at 4k a slice. lol oh well
i don't slice...only for friends
TashunkaSapa wrote:
Anarchy99 wrote:
The DOC's are starting to raise their prices, why shouldn't we charge for our skillzzzzz?
The Docs can guarantee their results. When I pay a doctor 10k for a set of buffs, he can tell me how large the buff will be and how long it will last before he applies it.
A Smuggler expects the same amount and he can't even tell me what type of slice it will be, let alone the amount?
Sorry, but I invest a considerable amount of money into my equipment and when I get it sliced I'm doing so to improve the weapon or armor. I don't need an encumbrance slice on my lightweight comp and I don't need a speed slice on my pistols, thank you. If you deliver what I need (especially if the bonus is high) I tip generously. If you can't, you get the base rate. If that base rate is exorbitant, I get a friend or guildie to do it for me for freeand you make nothing.
I agree that slicers can certainly justify charging more than the old "100 cr per %" standard, but if you want to charge a large flat rate for a slice, you'd better be able to consistently deliver results. Since slicing is totally random, you can't.
Remember that your customers will expect to get what they pay for.
give me the ability to choose then let the price's fly! ), composite armourand so forth. i offer a 50% discount to rebels, but thats just my way of helping the cause and if the slice is under 20% i don't charge ... more for the fact that i don't want word of poor quality slices spreading than anything else.A flat rate of 5-10K per item does hurt the poorest and newest players, the ones who will bring you a single DH-17 that may have cost them less than the slice itself, and that bothers me enough that I often give reduced or free slices to anyone that's obviously going to worry about paying 6K for a slice. On the other hand, their business is a fraction of the slicing I do, most of which consists of 5-15 weapons at a time or a full suit of composite that set them back 200-500K and for whom my prices aren't going to warrant a blink.
This is exactly where I try to keep my rate: at a level low enough that the bulk of my customers don't have to think twice about it, but high enough that I don't feel I'm wasting my time sitting around Coronet rather than running missions on Dant. Unfortunately, I've spent the last couple days slicing to gauge my rates, and even a steady stream of business doesn't keep up with the money I'd pull in blasting Jantas--which makes me think my fee of 5K is a little low, and that perhaps, given that I'm improving their items permanently, I should bump it up to 8 or even 10K. If people aren't willing to pay it, they can find a smuggler willing to spend his time that way while I race around Dantooine.
Still, I've got the suspicion that slice inflation hasn't yet reached a level where the general populace resents us. I try to temper my greed--oh lord, how I do try--but if I can't slice for cash at the same rate I can make it running missions, my alternatives are to raise my rates or give it up. And for the time being, I'm not going to give up the one thing I can do as a smuggler.
This should have been obvious to me, as I mostly charge my customers not for the materials I use with a slice, but for the time it takes out of my couple hours online, and in retrospect, I'm sure almost everyone weighs their purchases in the same way. If there are a couple masters slicing in the same area, the guy who's charging 4K to your 8 is going to get most of the business. But if you're the only one in town, or if the other guy's got a line, I think most players out there would rather spend a few extra credits than a few extra minutes.
I continue in my efforts for the 2,000,000 credit slice. I will travel anywhere in the galaxy to perform this service.
Get what you can... we're not Jedi....
Cheers.
smuggie wrote:
I charge 7k /slice, no matter what % i get!!!
STOP with those 1k, 2k under 20% free slices!!!!!
BE PROUD to be a smuggler
CHARGE atleast 7k/slice
SMUGGLERS earn more respect then getting 3k for a slice... people will always ask for a slice even if they are 3k or 10k, same goes for master doctors, they've been smart to raise their prices, we should to
imo
I charge a flat fee, regardless of percent slice.
5k per slice
Additionally
+5k if in a guild I dont like
+10k if you have a name I dont like
+25k if you are a rebel
+50k if the person is a jedi or has a jedi that I am aware of outside of my guild.
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So potentially I could get 95k for a single slice heh.