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Thread: Kettemoor Smugglers Price List
I'm not on Kettemoor but I have some advice:
"I don't have a factory set up because I can only play intermitently and keeping maintainence up to date is kind of a problem."
How often do you play because I find factories (both food and equipment to a smuggler) invaluable?. I went up the Artisan tree and got weaponsmith (for WUK schematics) and make my own. All the tools I use I make on my own except for AUK's at the moment. I have a large home (6 slots), the other 4 slots are for harvesters for all the resources I need.
I'm not sure how much creds you have or equipment...but you can take factories offline and put them up when you need it depending on how often you play.
"Spice doesn't sell the way it used to and since I'm not a master, I lose quite a bit of slicing business."
Spice is good business on my server. I sell crates at about 6k on the market and I believe I am making a strong profit.
My advise is invest in harvesters & factories and maybe climb up the Artisan tree for schematics to produce all the tools you need. Rely on yourself because in the end it's much cheaper. I'm not swimming in credits but I'm doing allright.
Uhura E.
Master Smug/TKM/Weaponsmith/Artisan
One of the Four Horsemen of the Smuggler Apocalypse! 
fallingdown wrote:
There are several threads running today about prices for slicing and the tools we use to do them. What I'd like to know is what everyone on Kettemoor is paying and charging. I'm not a master smuggler (0,4,2,4) yet. I've been trying to charge 3500/per slice but I occasionally find that people expect to pay 100/% point.
I don't have a factory set up because I can only play intermitently and keeping maintainence up to date is kind of a problem. As a result, I buy crates of supplies. Prices seem to vary wildly Clamps seem torun somewhere between 2k (rare) and 12k with the average being around 6k. I find WUKs and AUKs pretty consistantly around 8k a crate. Crates of knives seem to run around 5k.
Am I shopping in the wrong places? I find that its pretty hard to make any sort of a living as a smuggler right now. Spice doesn't sell the way it used to and since I'm not a master, I lose quite a bit of slicing business.
I hope other Kettemoor smugglers will chime in with their experiences.
Hey ya! Glad to see another fellow Smuggler on the forums here from Kettemoor.
Get an equipment factory. Buy 9100 grinding copper at 1 CPU. Get some high POtential Energy Radioactive for 1 CPU. Get next to a crafting station and make one schematic for your clamps with an amount of 100. Place the factory right at the building limit for structures. Pop down 2-3000 credits for maintenance, and put down 2-3000 power. It will take approximately one hour to make 4 crates of 25 clamps. Then you make sure you have just enough money in your factory to redeed it, and pick that sucker up. You'll make the money back on your clamps within the first couple of slices you do.
Do the exact same thing with knives. Ido a bigger run of 250 knives, and that takes longer, obviously.
As for AUKs and WUKs, I found a spot on Corellia that sells them for 3400 a crate. Just bring up the Planetary Map and look under tools for people listing "Smuggler Supplies". I believe there are two of them out there.
As for what to charge, I charge 5k a slice. Everyone is cool with that pricing. I haven't tried raising it, but I don't really have a need to. I remember getting yelled at back in February when I tried to raise my prices to 4k, and that was by other Master Smugglers (why they would be mad that I was charging MORE than they were, I'll never know). But as I've said in other threads here, charge whatever you want. If you're not getting as many customers as you'd like at whatever price you're charging, then lower it. Just make sure you don't stay high for too long, because your name will probably get spread around as an "expensive smuggler" and you'll get less business.
I haven't touched spices since August of last year. I actually saw a crate of Muon Gold on the bazaar for 1000 credits. I was shocked. You may be able to make money on spices, but I haven't looked at that market for a long time, so I'm not sure how you would.
If you have any other questions, feel free to add me to your friend's list and send me a tell or an email!
Have a Armorsmith make you an AUK schematic and a Weaponsmith a WUK schematic with materials you provide them. If they make the schematic with a rare ore you cannot afford or acquire without great difficulty you're screwed.
The quality of metal with AUK and WUK isn't really an issue with slicing so "grinding material" will do.
(Just make sure he give you a schematic with 1000 uses on it).
Just a thought....
Uhura E.
Master Smug/TKM/Weaponsmith/Artisan