Tailor Archive
Thread: BE clothing and the market inflation
NamedJughead wrote:
No more then 45k an item. Price is determined by the cost of the tissues.
This is true but fyi the BE that i buy my tissues from is paying betw 60-100 cpu for the milk and eggs needed for certain mods. Some BE's on Ahazi are charging nearly 350k for a crate of tissues.
Yep, some BE's are charging that much on Ahazi.. it's up to you whether or not you buy them. I don't. Vendor search is your friend.. those tissues for 350k.. I find for 100k or less usually. I sell my BE clothing cheaply compared to most others.. I can't see paying so much for my tissues because of thise....but for those who do, more power to ya 
and there is alread a thread http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=tailor&message.id=63020 target=_blank> here . Might want to check it out too
Message Edited by Saera on 09-16-2005 07:47 AM
My BE prices have gone up because my tissues' prices have gone up.
I used to get my tissues at 200cr per point, but that person quit. On my server, there is a known BE who makes tailor tissues, and she is charging over 12K per tissue, which is insane. I only buy from her if there is no one else.
HealerChic wrote:
wow i had no idea some BEs are charging this much (I'm tailor/Be myself) Are these for uber tissues? what kind of stats are on these things?
Just the standard bit. The way it works on my server, you can use really uber resources and charge those prices, or you can get +1 less on tissues for 1/5th the price. Hrmmm....
Pre-CU we had melee/stun defense that capped at what? +5 melee/+18 stun maybe? Post-CU we have melee/ranged defense tissue that is fairly simple to get up to +15 on both mods. Pre: something useful in pvp vs stun batons and geo blasters. Post: something useful all the time.
Demand is way up. Quite frankly, my tailored goods are a bargain compared to just about anything else a player can buy (with the exception of droid batteries). Even 4-socket items are cheap. If the market will bear the price, then I don't mind charging a premium.
Stack onto that what seems to be a jump in useful SEAs dropping post-CU ... people don't just want BE'd clothes, they want 4-socket BE clothes. I've got less-than-4-socket BE'd items gathering dust on my vendors because a customer placed a custom order for a BE'd Heavy Reinforced Jacket (one of the rare BE-RFP items that takes 2 RFPs, not 1) and no one else does. I wasn't about to eat the cost of those less-than-4-socket outcomes (happily, my customer on this said he'd pay "any price" for four such jackets ... luckily for him, I do have a little bit of a conscience).
Prices in SWG follow market forces as much as prices in the real world do (or don't). Cost is based as much on perception and possibilities (eg. gas prices considering perceived short term supply vs actual short term supply) as on expenses + reasonable profit margin. There will always be someone with outrageous prices and someone willing to undercut everyone else.
Don't wring your hands too much over prices for premium items. Tailors have few enough of those as it is. And just because many/most of us enjoy role-playing our profession and interacting with our customers more than anything else, that doesn't mean we can't make an easy credit or two now and then.
mozter2112 wrote:
i can't imagine a reason why someone would need to sell BE tissues for 350k. i'm able to sell mine for well under 100k because i can get my own resources, but even when i buy meat it sells way cheaper than it used to, so again i can't imagine selling tissues for 350k. if people refuse to pay that much, they won't be able to sell them like that for very long. like someone said, vendor search is awesome.
I know why they charge 350K... because they can. BE tailor tissue suppliersare limited... and because of that, they can ^ their prices without worrying too much about the competition.
Although I dislike the fact that they do, I can't blame them for it. I know my clothing prices have generally increased throughout my SWG time. I guess, supply and demand. As long as people are willing to pay, they will up the prices little by little. I refuse to buy tissues from a particular tissue-maker onmy serverbecause her prices have gone up the wazoo lately. And yeah, I've a wonderful tool called Vendor Search, and I am soo going to use it to my advantage. ^_^
Edit: Oooh, just forgot something. Ever since the CU, the tensile resistance tissue takes up eggs I think. As everyone knows, eggs are hard to come by, and especially hard to gather for stack of thousands. If I were to make a second guess as to why the prices have gone up so much, it'd be because BE's have to waste 30K resource deeds for eggs. Just a guess.
Message Edited by TheNola on 09-28-2005 12:18 PM
TheNola wrote:
I know why they charge 350K... because they can. BE tailor tissue suppliersare limited... and because of that, they can ^ their prices without worrying too much about the competition.