Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: A question on smuggler template
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Dodece
Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:20 am
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Well I finally decided to take up smuggler and master the profession to add onto my weaponsmith. So my question is this how do you price weapons that are sliced. How much more should I charge for perfect sliced weapons, and how much should I add for poor sliced weapons. I expect to master smuggler within the week so I want a rough outline in my mind before I start sliceing weapons. Any help would be appreciated. Note I am a discount seller so I do not want to charge 10 or 12 k for a sliced pistol. Do I have an option in this will my poorer sliced weapons not sell unless I charge alot for the perfect slices.
LLJK_Griz
Fri Jun 18, 2004 7:39 am
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"Discount" sliced weapons don't work unless you enjoy having your vendor cleared out by resellers within hours of every restock. The only things you can sell cheap are low to mid speed slices and anything with a really crap damage slice, like below 20%, because people won't even pay standard unsliced price for those.
Look at the trade forums, they're full of people auctioningstandardweapons with good slices for like 100k starting bid.
BarboGato
Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:09 pm
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Dodece wrote:
Note I am a discount seller so I do not want to charge 10 or 12 k for a sliced pistol.
You have already answered your own question.
If you feel uncomfortable about charging 100k for a great sliced weapon, then just add your normal cost of a slice to the normal cost of your weapon.
Dodece
Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:20 am
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Well to be frank I doubt I will ever get cleared out. Sunrunner tattooine is not what I considered packed with consumers. 100 k pefect slice weapons kind of disturbs me. Then again the prices some people charge disturbs me also. Not to mention that almost everyother weaponsmith on the server already sells sliced weapons. So it is not like I am doing something rare or unheard of. I was just asking how much more should I charge for a perfect sliced scatter pistol over a non sliced scatter pistol. Being that I charge 4000 credits now and mine are 121-152 2.2 with a perfect damage slice you could get 159-200 how much do you think that gun is worth.
By the way Iike I said I am in the middle of BFE overchargeing is not a real option for me. Those of you that slice your own have a good sense of what customers usually think is fair. That is the question is there a general ratio any of you use.
LLJK_Griz
Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:39 am
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If you have a merchant friend somewhere less isolated you could get him to sell some of the really good slices forslightly below themarket value. He gets a cut of the profit andyou (hopefully) get more customers at your shop by having your name on top quality weapons in a high visibility location.
If the product is good enough, people will go anywhere to get it. One of the best armorsmiths on Lowca used to be in some tiny town in the ass end of Talus that wasn't listed on the map and didn't have a shuttleport, but everyone would make themultiple planet hops and 3km drive each way because he had great armor at great prices.
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