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Antaak
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Posted - 2005.12.29 14:10:00 -
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Well, a while ago I had a chance to make some money. I got 1200 tech 2 mining crystals that seemed to be selling for 300,000-350,000 or even 400,000 each in some regions for around 250,000 each. Working around this I thought it would make me a good profit so I went ahead.
I invested everything I had left in this, but it's now around 2-3 weeks later and i've not sold a single crystal. I even tried selling them for 100k each just to get some money back but again no sale. I can't even reprocess them due to a bug. What the hell can I do?
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Burlock Ironfist
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Posted - 2005.12.29 14:13:00 -
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keep them on the market and go do something else to make some money.
Ratting / missions....
you will soon get money again and its amazing how easy you can get back on your feet....
(i bankrupt myself all the time)
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Fooball
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Posted - 2005.12.29 14:14:00 -
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Hop into fast ship, scout the market regions and go to the buyers. Lots of work but you can slowly get rid of them. Hopefully you have trade skills to have lots of orders open. 
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Marcsens Lil'Helper
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Posted - 2005.12.29 14:14:00 -
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Edited by: Marcsens Lil''Helper on 29/12/2005 14:14:29
You could train for a Barge and mine with them. :) Gonna keep you busy for a while. :)
Or you could try to auction them off as a lot.
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Sirkill
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Posted - 2005.12.29 14:16:00 -
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Start poping barges using tech 2 mining lazers, if you kill enough you'll destory many crystals giving yourself a much bigger market.
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Kraven Kor
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Posted - 2005.12.29 14:54:00 -
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 Originally by: Sirkill
Start poping barges using tech 2 mining lazers, if you kill enough you'll destory many crystals giving yourself a much bigger market.
*Dingdingdingding*
SirKill wins the thread!
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Earthan
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Posted - 2005.12.29 14:59:00 -
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wired i use tech 2 minig crystals from time to time when i mine and they dont last to long.Should be a big need for them.
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Gridzilla
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Posted - 2005.12.29 15:43:00 -
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Take some crystals from the original sell order and experiment by setting small sell orders in different regions and systems. Then see where you've sold the most and set up bigger sell orders there. It's not just the price, but often the location where you're selling that matters most.
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Abraxus
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Posted - 2005.12.29 15:46:00 -
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Originally by: Sirkill
Start poping barges using tech 2 mining lazers, if you kill enough you'll destory many crystals giving yourself a much bigger market.
now thats not a bad idea....go for the macro miners in particular, they have the most isk
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Thydon
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Posted - 2005.12.29 16:33:00 -
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contact me tonight when ur online i should be online 2300'ish eve time.
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Deja Thoris
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Posted - 2005.12.29 16:42:00 -
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Learn to check the market volumes.
Are the crytals selling at all? What about bordering regions?
Lots of arses put up sell orders for 1 ISK less than yours. Unless you keep a sharp eye out you will get undercut repeatedly.
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Slink Grinsdikild
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Posted - 2005.12.29 17:21:00 -
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I've been there. The times when you spot a bargain and bulk buy across the universe, thinking you'll be minted by selling your goods off quick. Only to discover the exact opposite is the case; you're struggling to sell anything. It takes heaps of your time and effort and you actually end up with a loss. 
It helps to check every avenue before you stock up on something, I check every region in empire (with a nano-Slasher this doesn't take as long as you'd think) aswell as escrow and sale history.
P.S. +5% Medium Hybrid Damage Hardwirings anyone? I got about 40 left. 
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NickWest
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Posted - 2005.12.29 18:44:00 -
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I think you can reprocess them into base materials that are worth almost as much as the crystals themselves, but minerals are much more liquid.
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Antaak
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Posted - 2005.12.29 18:46:00 -
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I've not sold a single one, and I can't refine them back due to a bug with RMR. I and a few others have reported it but as you woudl expect it's not a high prioroty.
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
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Somatic Neuron
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Posted - 2005.12.29 18:55:00 -
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One thing to remember when you see these "amazing opportunities"...what you see on the market is what HASN'T sold yet...that usually means that there isn't enough demand, or they are overpriced for the demand. Your best bet is to look at the Market History for a given region and determine what the average price they have sold for has been...better yet, put the values in excel and do a trend analysis to see what the prices are doing...best of all, look at the buy orders that exist...if you are first to them, that is the best chance for a sale. granted, it may not be the price you were looking for, and it may not be what they have been selling for, but it is a set price that has been ordered...and unless they cancel their buy order, you aren't going to not sell your goods.
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Embattle
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Posted - 2005.12.29 18:58:00 -
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Originally by: NickWest
I think you can reprocess them into base materials that are worth almost as much as the crystals themselves, but minerals are much more liquid.
IRC you can't atm.
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KALA8388
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Posted - 2005.12.29 19:30:00 -
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See if you have trained visibility. This allows pilots to see your product in space. Lvl 1 is the same system, lvl 2 its 5 jumps and lvl 5 is the entire region. If you haven't trained this skill only the pilots docked at the station where you are selling the crystals will see your goods ;) Juri
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Entreri Finwe
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Posted - 2005.12.29 20:15:00 -
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See if you have trained visibility. This allows pilots to see your product in space. Lvl 1 is the same system, lvl 2 its 5 jumps and lvl 5 is the entire region. If you haven't trained this skill only the pilots docked at the station where you are selling the crystals will see your goods ;) Juri
Read the skill description again...I thought just as you but this *only* for *remote* orders...if you dock and enter the sell order in that particular station, anyone can see the order regardless of Visibility skill...
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Partisan Ograe
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Posted - 2005.12.29 20:45:00 -
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 Contact me ingame. I'd be interested in buying a large volume of them.
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2005.12.29 22:08:00 -
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if you can't sell crystals, sell your body instead
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s4mp3r0r
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Posted - 2005.12.30 00:07:00 -
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just bought 30 crystals of him, please help him out by buying some crystals for the noobs in your corp.
The price is right :D
By Squize dec 10th when -V- signed a NAP with TFE:
Originally by: Squize
Originally by: Omeega
Omeega
damn it i saw this one come big like a pink elephant in a corridor!
Nostradamus, is that you ?
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Filan
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Posted - 2005.12.30 01:48:00 -
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also look at the regional market, for example i find by selling assault launchers near 0.0 space i can do great markup and as such greater profits then say near people just doing missions. maybe find a system you can safely haul into near 0.0 space and try selling some there. never know when corp mining gangs might need some crystals and not be near a corp station.
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Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2005.12.30 02:03:00 -
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I whine... then beg, then use ISKs to buy mining ship or NPCing.
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Scathson
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Posted - 2005.12.30 03:32:00 -
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don't know many that even use techII crystals
too expensive and they go pop too often
myself, if i don't have the bpo for a consumable i don't use them
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Galaxion
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Posted - 2005.12.30 03:33:00 -
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Originally by: Jenny Spitfire
I whine... then beg, then use ISKs to buy mining ship or NPCing.
Whining generally works, especially when you have rich people in your corp. But I dont do it any more, it makes you feel a failure tbh.
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Antaak
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Posted - 2005.12.31 15:09:00 -
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Anyone? I really need to get rid of them soon, I did get rid of 30 but i'm now almost out of ISK.
Someone please buy them, lol
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High Sierra
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Posted - 2005.12.31 15:48:00 -
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I'd love to be bankrupt. It would mean that I actually got enough money together to BECOME bankrupt!
take a deep breath, dig in and start building yourself up again. I would just leave them in your hangar for now.
Leave some on the market and wait. They will sell eventually.
Thing is, the EvE economy is in depression atm due to macro miners screwing up prices and certain goods being scarce. Also theres alot of stuff out there thats either overpriced or not selling so its not worth producing for some people.
You took a gamble and it didnt pay off.
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Psionist
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Posted - 2005.12.31 16:44:00 -
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Exactly what mining crystals do you have?
I may buy the lot off you if you offer a good price.
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Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2005.12.31 16:52:00 -
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Originally by: Galaxion
Originally by: Jenny Spitfire
I whine... then beg, then use ISKs to buy mining ship or NPCing.
Whining generally works, especially when you have rich people in your corp. But I dont do it any more, it makes you feel a failure tbh.
Yes, I do not do it often but sometimes, when **** happens... it is one of the only way to go. Better than finding ISKs illegally.
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Antaak
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Posted - 2005.12.31 17:02:00 -
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Originally by: Psionist
Exactly what mining crystals do you have?
I may buy the lot off you if you offer a good price.
Tech 2 Hemorphite, have 800. Will do them for 200k each if you take the lot.
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