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Thread: What to Charge For Syn Clothe, Reinforced FP, Fp's, etc...
I charge at least 5 cpu for friends and 10 cpu for everyone else. You must remember that you have to pay maintenence on the factory and power it up at whatever cpu your power is worth. You also have to use your own factories which could be used to make your own items, so you're "losing money" every minute they're producing for someone else. There are also redeed costs, if you don't normally keep 3 factories in production (I don't).
When you factor in just the maintenence and power costs, and not even the other intangible costs (i.e. opportunity costs, costs for your time and effort) you'll see that you may well be only breaking even with this deal.
Don't sell yourself short! It's probably too late to renegotiate this deal, but there will be future deals. And in the future, if they say "but so and so got a price of x" you can say something vague like "well I got a new resource supplier". Even better, next time offer to make the schematic for 10k, if the other person provides the materials and the factories, and you don't have a hassle for the next few days babysitting factories. You make the schematic and the client takes it out of your hair.
Tailin charges the following:
Synthetic Cloth Crate (25 units): 2000
Reinforced Fiber Panel Crate (25 units): 2200
Fiberplast Panel Crate (50 units): 2000
I take email requests. I have 5 factories so big orders are usually not a problem.
Also... people will seek out a master tailor to make these panels, even though a novice tailor can make them just as well. In my experience, the novice tailors need the money, while the master tailors are already too busy to do cloth orders.
I don't do them, except for friends, because it's not worth it to me to bust my hump making panels for 5 cpu (the going rate on my server) when I can make clothes at twice that. But this may be because my fiance is an armorsmith so I'm already supplying panels to someone on a regular basis, so my factories are always busy (we have 4 factories between us, and they're usually running something).