Tailor Archive
Thread: New to BE Clothing (Yet another pricing post... I'm really sorry...)
Pricing on the BE end doesn't seem to vary that much. Standard prices for tissues would be in the 2k - 3k/tissue range for say +14 - +17 tissues, something like that. You'll pay a little more for tranquilizers and myoflex. If you see prices differing all that much from that, be very suspicious, as you're probably dealing with a noob or a fly-by-night type.
On the tailor end I think is where you really see a very wide spread of prices, because in any given region there is likely to be very little competition. Just price according to your expenses and your conscience.
KyjaAarn wrote:
But what should I be paying per tissue/crate of tissues? Never having bought this, and having seen more Jedi on my server than I've seen bio-engineers...
Just a rough guide? Like prices for a crate of +15's of whatever types and prices for a crate of +25's of whatever types?
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 06-26-2004 03:22 AM
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=bio-engineer&message.id=72932
If you take a peek at this thread from the BE boards, you can see a huge variation in prices of tailor tissues. They range from 12500 credits for a crate (500 credits per tissue) to almost 10000 credits per tissue. My own pricing structure is quite complex but results in tissues ranging from about 4-7k each.
You mentioned how difficult it is to find a BE...it's probably even more difficult to find a BE that offers a full range of tissues for tailors. I think that this is one of the reasons why prices vary so much and why most of the vendors I've come across only sell a very limited range of enhanced clothing.
Another thing to consider is that each tissue requires up to 70 units of various creature resources to make, which can be quite expensive at market prices. On my server, top quality creature resources regularly sell for 50-100 cpu...obviously it will vary from server to server.
I've also seen a huge variation in prices of enhanced clothing. But generally I think that most people have no problem paying around 20k on my server for a 4/18 melee/stun defense shirt or 30k for a +25 injury/wound treatment sunguard or 50k for a +25 injury/wound treatment wooly shirt.
If you manage to find a BE that offers a great price on tissues for tailors then don't let them get away! But paying 4-7k for each tissue shouldn't really be a great concern when you consider the return you get on your investment.
Well, I've read some of the discussions on this board about prices of clothing, particularly concerning tailors charging a fair market price for their items. This recent thread is an example:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=tailor&message.id=36498
With some tailors chargingover 10k for non-enhanced clothing and more for enhanced clothing, is it not right that bioengineers should also charge a fair price for tissues? The road to becoming a master BE is just as long as the one to master tailor, but unlike tailors we can't get the majority of our resources by placing a harvester on the ground as most of our resources come from creatures. To me, the prices I previously mentioned of 4-7k per tissue seems comparatively low when compared to some of the prices of clothing that have been quoted by tailors in the thread I've mentioned above. I'm particularly surprised at ArthurDent's comments about fly-by-night BEs considering that he is both a BE and a tailor (who believes in charging a fair price for clothing).
I can't speak for all of my fellow BEs, but I only want a fair slice of the pie, and at 4-7k per tissue the tailor should still be getting the bigger slice by far. If you are able to source tissues for 2-3k each, you've almost got the whole pie to yourself....BEs selling tissues at those prices must love surviving on pie-crust!
Centurion wrote:
I use Moroc's BE Calc v2.0 for my pet pricing and he added tissue pricing in version 2 so I used that for a recent med tissue sale. It turned out to be +16 tissues and I sold three crates for 25k each.
Meroc's BE Calc doesn't actually give you any guideance as far as pricing. All it does is allow you to enter in the variables, costs, etc that are important to you and crunches the numbers. Or are you just using the defaults?
/chuckle
Your prices are about 50% below most BE's.
dulee wrote:http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=bio-engineer&message.id=72932
If you take a peek at this thread from the BE boards, you can see a huge variation in prices of tailor tissues. They range from 12500 credits for a crate (500 credits per tissue) to almost 10000 credits per tissue.
That thread you reference was mainly talking about chef tissues, which is of little interest here.
Also, my comment about pricing was objective, I made no judgement on what is "fair" and what is "not fair", I'm just strictly reporting what people charge, and saying that if you're buying from someone who prices radically differently from that, be a little bit careful because it shows that he/she may not understand the marketplace for their product.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 07-01-2004 09:48 PM
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
dulee wrote:
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=bio-engineer&message.id=72932
If you take a peek at this thread from the BE boards, you can see a huge variation in prices of tailor tissues. They range from 12500 credits for a crate (500 credits per tissue) to almost 10000 credits per tissue.
That thread you reference was mainly talking about chef tissues, which is of little interest here.
Also, my comment about pricing was objective, I made no judgement on what is "fair" and what is "not fair", I'm just strictly reporting what people charge, and saying that if you're buying from someone who prices radically differently from that, be a little bit careful because it shows that he/she may not understand the marketplace for their product.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 07-01-2004 09:48 PM
The thread that I referenced also contains 5 or 6 responses from BEs on how much they charge for tissues for tailors, which when added to the 5 or 6 responses on this thread, gives a broader idea of the price range of tissues for tailors. I thought that this would be of interest to the original poster, but I hope that K'ell can forgive me if it is of little interest.
Also, in response to K'ell's question regarding the exquisite dancer's leotard, I think that it would definately be worth putting in dwh/mwh enhancements as this would enable the entertainer to wear the leotard for regular wound healing. The dwh/mwh enhancements would give the leotard an extra selling point.
Arthur, you wrote in your original reply to K'ell's post that standard prices for tissues for tailors doesn't seem to vary that much. But the thread that I referenced and the responses in this thread shows quite a big variation in prices. There seems to be similar variations in prices of clothing, but I don't think that it would go down very well if someone were to suggest that a tailor charging more than 2-3k for an item of non-enhanced clothing is probably a noob or fly-by-night. So why is it ok to apply these suggestions when talking about bioengineers?
dulee wrote:
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Also, in response to K'ell's question regarding the exquisite dancer's leotard, I think that it would definately be worth putting in dwh/mwh enhancements as this would enable the entertainer to wear the leotard for regular wound healing. The dwh/mwh enhancements would give the leotard an extra selling point.
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