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As both a BE and an aspiring tailor, I'd like to know what fair prices are for crates of BE tissues. I need to know what to charge, and if I ever plan to drop BE (not in the near future), what to pay. It would be GREAT if you could post what you pay for which kind of tissue. For example:

25 +15 Injury/Wound treatment
25 +15 Mask Scent/Camo
25 +16 Bleed
25 +15 Intim/Warcry
25 +4 Melee/+16 Stun Defense
25 +30 Entertainer Healing (not sure exactly what the individual stats on this are)


Thanks,

So, would these be fair prices that you all would be willing to pay?

25 +15 Injury/Wound treatment 70K
25 +15 Mask Scent/Camo 75K
25 +16 Bleed 60K
25 +15 Intim/Warcry 70K
25 +4 Melee/+16 Stun Defense 50K

I don't want to overcharge, but I don't want to make it less than what it's worth either.
Thanks for your input!

The rare BEs selling tissues on my server charge 300 to 350 per point.

My BE friend sells his crates for 50k to other tailors. I have a different arrangement with him, however. I charge 1k per point plus the original cost of the clothing. So a +16 mask/camo in a 2k bandolier would be 18k. I then pay him half of that once the item sells, so he would make 9k on that particular item and it only uses the one tissue. I'm hard pressed to keep it in stock and i run through about three crates a day over all the skill mods.

I know that 50k for a crate if obviously more cost effective for me, but he does just as much work as i do, and deserves to reap just as much reward from it. Since i use so much of the stuff, paying him half of it is more than fair in my opinion given his need for a team of hunters to get the massive levels of resources he needs.

What I look for (and I'm leaving out the ultra-rare stuff that needs milk or mollusks here) is a price-per-tissue of 3000 or less for "top range" tissues. (By which I generally mean anything over +13 or thereabouts.)

My basic pricing policy for the clothes themselves is to charge (price of "base item") + (5000 * number of "top range" tissues used.)

A cash profit of 2000 (adjusted for the time, cost and hassle of dealing with the stuff) per tissue works out OK for me.

Oh, Eir, incidental odd demand-based pricing note. On your price list, I'd actually reverse a bunch of the numbers. I'd pay the 70k+ rates for the Melee and Bleed tissues, because they're by far the most in-demand, while I might bargain-hunt on the others, because I'm infrequently asked for them.

So maybe 70K-75K per crate across the board would be good? Or a nice 72K to even things out? That way I can quote one price for all of the most popular tissues?

25 +15 Injury/Wound treatment 72K
25 +15 Mask Scent/Camo 72K
25 +16 Bleed 72K
25 +15 Intim/Warcry 72K
25 +4 Melee/+16 Stun Defense 72K

Thanks for your help!

I have been buying all my tissues for about 50k a crate, higher for +14 medical ones.

CH tissues go for about 200k each...totally overpriced IMO and I hear they don't work like they should.

I suspect the key with the CH tissues is that any differences would be very inobvious (especially compared to something like the medical tissues), since they basically modify a "failure rate" that's probably pretty lowish for them already.

Even if they're working 100% as advertised, it might be hard to *see* the difference.

I am not big into making Tissues, since collecting meat without any combat skill is rather slow, but my usual charge where I sell for is 100cr per skill point if it has 2 skill mods, 150 if it has only one, and 150cr too if its a lower skill (like the +4 defense one).
So a +14 Mask Scent / Camouflage would cost 2800cr per tissues.

In honesty i would pay any price to buy them becuas i pretty much only make the B E clothes. But 75k is about right for shadowfire. I dont know what the prices are on the rest of the server's.

No wonder my stuff sells well even in the boondocks. I'm grumbling slightly because of my two master BE suppliers, the one that's nearer to me just upped her prices - up from her previous 100 per point (to the higher skill, if applicable) per tissue, to 110 per point (for friends; on her vendor they're 140 per point). So to pick any of your hypothetical +15 examples, a crate of 25 would be 25 x 15 x 110 = 41,250 per crate.

I know a master BE on Corellia who sells for a flat 100 per point except for enhanced myoflex. But Corellia's two planets over from me.

(By the way, a bonus of +13 is more normal for the tissues I buy, up to at most +15. One of the reasons why I get good prices is that for most purposes, I think anything over +13 per tissue is excessive, since two +13 tissues/items is enough to cap any one skill bonus. An extra +2 to +3 per tissue isn't anywhere near worth the difference in price between ordinary average-grade organics and super-rare top-quality organics. To get those extra 2 points, you have to triple the cost of the materials. Both of my standard suppliers agree with me on this, but for a different reason. They say that even with the premium prices that +16 or +17 tissues get, no amount of money isworth the time it takes them to find that quantity of rare top-quality resources.)

When I build them into clothes, I'mnow charginga flat-rate 200 per point plus the regular price of the clothes, it's easier for me to figure that way. If I run out, which occasionally happens, too bad.

As I found out when I started a character on another server, these are Kettemoor prices. On other servers, multiply those numbers by five. (Which, as far as I'm concerned, is ridiculous to the point of being morally offensive.)

(And while I'm in parentheses, what the heck am I doing posting to a pricing thread? I hate pricing threads.)

Well, here is my update. 70K seems to be too much on my server. 50-55K is more the going price. I told 70K to my customer and he said that was WAAAAAAAAAY too much. So, I messaged the few BEs and Tailors I know to ask what they charged. One said 70K, one said 50K. So, I set the price at 55K and I think I'll stick with that. It seems more than fair considering the work that goes in to gathering the meat/hide/bone/etc. that goes in to them. Thanks again everyone!