Von Kroll
Caldari Kroll's Legion
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Posted - 2011.02.24 15:53:00 -
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1. Take an average sell price based on your local or Jita market of the ship you selling copies of. Then, compute the actual manufacturing cost of that item based on local/Jita mineral/component values and the ME of your BPC. Using the cost to manufacture, determine what type of profit margins the sellers are realizing. Then you can get an idea of the maximum price you can sell a BPC for without destroying someone's profit potential for that item. For example, if Drakes sell for 30mil in your region, and they cost 27mil to build (mineral cost), then after taxes, fees and manufacturing costs, they're probably realizing around 2.75 mil isk per ship, or around an 9% margin. Another 250,000 isk for a BPC reduces that margin to around 8.5%. I'd say ultimately, that on high-volume ships like the Drake, 8% margin may be acceptable to the manufacturer, so a BPC for that ship, in that market, at that ME, between 250,000 and 500,000 may be attractive to them.
2. Second, you have to assign a cost to you for researching and copying that BPO. If you have a lab on a small POS (which costs 250,000 isk per hour to fuel) and you want that single lab to pay for the POS fuel you use, then you need to assign a cost per hour per research and copy slot of that lab. So, perhaps the 3 ME slots, 2 copy slots, (just for this example, we'll ignore invention slots and keep these numbers for the ME and copy slots to make the math easy), cost you 50,000 isk/hour to run. If it takes 4 hours to copy a 1-run BPC, then cost to you = 200,000 for the BPC. If you ever sell the BPO, (and for the purposes of this example you researched it to ME 10), then you should at least get BPO cost + 50,000 isk times how long it took it to research to ME 10 just to break even. Also, if you research and copy in a station, this changes the numbers significantly since you don't have POS overhead to worry about.
3. Determine whether or not the price point developed in paragraph 1 allows you to make your desired margin (based on the cost you developed in paragraph 2). If it does, copy and sell away. If not, you may want to look for another BPC market to sell copies in.
Finally, these examples I posted are one method. There are different methods on how you do this, but ultimately you should know 3 things. (1) What BPC price will your market bear. (2) What is the actual cost to you to produce the BPC. (3) Does the market price of the BPC allow you to achieve your desired margin and make copying profitable enough for you?
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