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Relic
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Posted - 2003.08.07 15:09:00 -
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LOL,
As all this cartel talk seems to be taking place around the Heimatar region here are some market prices.
8 89,997 Pator
50 90,000 Ammold
4 90,000 Klir
23 99,774 Hulm
32 100K Auga
Plus another 5 systems with prices below this 200K mark, I can't see this cartel working to well. Also none of these are items I have put up as I've been under bid myself. Now if it was not for an agreement with another player I would just be selling at 75K as with eff prod 5 and a researched BP these things cost only about 63K to make and a 20% market is not bad.
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Posted - 2003.08.07 17:55:00 -
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Your "associate" was asking about what Cartel pricing targets were for that item in newly assigned territory. And none of the MILITEC guidelines are 200k or over for that item. You must be mistaken.
Well the reports from others also indicate that they were told 200K or else.
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Enforcement rearely ever engages in hostilities, instead they try to work out a mutually beneficial arangement with the seller.
Funny all the gangster movies I seen use the same wording :)
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MILITEC has never asked CCP to do anything for us. Again, we are a consortium of independant and corporate manufacturers who founded MILIEC to help provide the market with a little structure.
In the Dev Chat it was the trade Fed who seem to want to be written in to the story line, or at least have CCP do their marketing for them.
To be honest, this type of structure is never going to work as each build have different costs - someone with a researched BP and Eff Prod 5 can sell way below another player and still make a larger overall profit and anyone selling drops just wants a sale fast so will sell below the market price.
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Posted - 2003.08.07 18:32:00 -
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I was the person who said that I was happy at 20% margin and as I've been given the green light from the player I have an agreement with, to price at what I like they are now on sale at 76K :)
The thing is I would rather sell 100 guns at 20% margin than 5 at 100% margin.
Also I'm often selling to other solo players I work with within the game, as I'm buying the ore they mine or the drops they get from pirates we have a close working relationship and I have no plans to overcharge them and mess that up.
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Posted - 2003.08.07 19:11:00 -
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On the old historic home planet in the 20th century many countries made cartel agreements illegal and many companies were fined for such things.
As it stands the empire's of the EVE space have not needed to introduce such laws as the market does not enable such structures to be formed wih any easy.
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Posted - 2003.08.07 19:38:00 -
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Edited by: Relic on 07/08/2003 19:40:12
Well its about the only game play going on in central space, so its fun. Also 0% name calling so far so we all must be adults with different view points, all so a nice change.
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Posted - 2003.08.08 00:00:00 -
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Just to complete my part of this thread, here is a copy of an open letter for Militec posted in these forums, as I did not see much value in sending it back as an ingame message
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I have decided to make this an open letter.
Thank you very much for you purchasing the 21 650mm guns I had on sale at the Hulm station at 76K isk, as sales seemed slow even with the lowest price in the region, as many players are able to source these items via pirate drops.
As you seem happy to purchase such things so that you can then place them on the market at a much higher market price of 219K, I'm sure you will be happy to hear that I have now started to produce another batch of 20, which I expect to place on the market sometime in the next 24 hours. As you seem certain that you can find buyers at such a higher price, I hope you don't mind if I place my sale at a higher price of 80K so that I can share in your good fortune.
As for your kind offer of letting me become involved in your cartel, I have to decline such a kind offer as it does not fit in with my business plans or the plans of the players I currently play with. This means that I must also decline your request that I refrain from producing these items.
With Thanks
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Posted - 2003.08.08 07:08:00 -
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> Dorien
Do you mean that by following this process, I could end up selling more units at my current prices as people start to resell the units I make elsewhere across the game.
Thats for the heads up, I'll increase my production so that I'm ready for the increased level of orders, looks like I could end up in the wholesale market.
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