Smuggler Archive

I usualy only slice for free to members of my guild. My guild members recommend me for slicing to other people so I get a few slicing requests that way. I make a fair amount of money from selling clamps, WUKs and AUKs so don't actively slice in public places.

I used to wander around with my "Master Smuggler" title when I needed the money, and slice but never really advertised the fact. It never took long for someone to say "Can you slice something for me?" But I soon got sick of logging in and being bombarded with 4 or 5 tells asking for slices, so I changed my title and I only slice for PA members and friends now. I don't need the money anymore anyway.

I wear my master smuggler title cause I'm proud of it.

never slice under 50 items, as said in another post.

I'm tired of getting paid 2k/3k whatever price, to get insulted cause I landed 16% speed slice on some scythe or high end expensive weapon.

I do MUCH more money, getting my own scythes, slicing em and sell em pre sliced in my vendors for at least 100k benefit/weapon, and I'm still 200k cheaper that most of shop in my server.

watch the money roll in uh ? run your shop and u wouldn't even have to watch the money roll in, 2 days ago, I logged in with 3M more in my account, just advertise right and manage to get loot made stuff.

no more whining, no more people pissed off cause they get their 500k worth thingy screwed, more profit, u can actually play the game or do whatever you like when other people buy from you.

etc..etc... I like hanging out in ID salons watching my mailbox filling in with "vendor item purchased" mails... (damn I delete em so fast, not even sure bout the title)

I slice for people (5k per slice). However, I do not spam (it is illegal, you know), and though I wear my Master Smuggler tag, I'm not searchable (no criminals advertising in the phone book). People have to find me if they want a slice, but if I wander into a starport area, I start getting tells for slicing pretty quick.

I even got a number of tells for slicing last night despite the spamming Master Smuggler yelling "Tired of getting ripped off for high-priced slices? I slice everything for 100cr/%." The customer had to wait for me to finish another guy's stuff, and I charged him 5k as usual. He was happy to get the 32% damage slice on his Scythe, too.

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Bzzzz wrote:

I don't slice for profit anymore, it just isn't efficient enough to justify the time and effort. 10 minutes of solo-grouping on Dantooine can net 40-50k credits, whereas in 10 minutes of slicing, most of that is time wasted educating customers on how to use their trade windows, explaining that I can't pick slices and picking my way through tell-hell. No thanks!

For now, I exclusively slice for friends and guildies at no cost. Everyone else is on their own.

Zz

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I totally agree. Maybe if slicing actually was worth a decent amount of money (which it is not) I would consider it. But I can just run solo missions and make 10 times more money. I also got so sick of jackasses freaking about about a bad slice. As we all know, bad slices happen from time to time but everyone seems to think that it should never happen to them. Maybe if the percent range were better or it was more profitable I would consider it. But for now I avoid my Master Smuggler tag like the plague.