Tailor Archive
Thread: Price Consensus for Synthetic Cloth
Rizzaka wrote:
Wow jeni, your on the cheap end? lol i don't do much comparative shopping.... i am on shadowfire too and charge 2500 per crate for most things, RFP i think i do 3K per.
I always run out of stock, i need to get another factory in fact just so i can keep production going 24/7
Well, Drrty, you *are* the cheap end on our server, for just about everything 
My comparison comes from other Coronet-based suppliers, which is where I do my business. I've heard of 5 cpu supplies in Breen - which is what your's works out to also. I also know some tailors that charge 9k a crate and can't keep them in stock *shurg*. I too can't keep them stocked, but I imagine the demand out of Breen is even higher.
Of course, when used in armor, the resulting items are usually charged out at anywhere from 30 - 100 cpu. So 5 or 6 or even 18 cpu for subcomps is pretty reasonable. Great composite with a good slice will go for 200+ cpu on Shadowfire.
Jeni
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 06-14-2004 10:46 AM
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
I just can't imagine someone charging 2k/crate on Bria
/boggle
Bria is a very expensive server. I don't think it's worthy of my time or my factory's time to sell it even at 5k a crate, but 2k?
We've had this discussion many times before, but I just want to point it out once again. Muscle shirt takes 1 cloth and essentially 1 more cloth worth of chemicals. So call it 2 cloths. I sell em on the bazaar for 4k and in my vendor for 1k. So to me the value of a crate of cloth is somewhere between 25k and 100k, lol. Why would I sell it for 2k?
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 06-14-2004 10:46 AM
That's an easy one.... because your volume on muscle shirts is low and your labor in a muscle shirt is high. Therefore you need a large markup for it to be viable.
For factory crates, the volume is high and the effort is low. Lower markup. I can easily sell 1000 synthetic cloth. Selling 1000 muscle shirts takes rather a lot longer.
Or, how's this.... at 25k a crate, you are selling at > 20 cpu. At 100k a crate, its > 80 cpu. That doesn't leave much room for the AS to mark up the resulting armor.Where's the incentive for the AS to buy your stuff?
Jeni
Message Edited by kegboy on 06-14-2004 09:40 PM
Olvenskol wrote:
Or, how's this.... at 25k a crate, you are selling at > 20 cpu. At 100k a crate, its > 80 cpu. That doesn't leave much room for the AS to mark up the resulting armor.Where's the incentive for the AS to buy your stuff?
Jeni