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Posted - 2013.09.07 20:57:00 -
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What's up with Freighter prizes? A few weeks ago, Charon was at 1.35 billion p/u in Jita, now it's close to 1.15 billion. |
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Posted - 2013.09.08 00:07:00 -
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Rengerel en Distel wrote:A charon prize is what the gankers call a loot pinata charon, right?
As for the price, i'd say all ships generally settle around the production cost, because undercutters just wanna sell, profit means nothing to the MIMAF crowd.
But can the MIMAF crowd actually amass enough minerals to build Freighters? Let alone amass enough ISK profit to be able to buy the component BPOs and then the hull BPO? I looked, last year, and those BPOs are expensive. |
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Posted - 2013.09.10 02:26:00 -
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Chic Botany wrote:As others say, the time taken to build a freighter
Components roughly 7 days depending on how many blueprints you've got
Then a good 10 days to build the freighter, so you're finally selling your freighter 17-18 days after you bought the minerals
This is why it's always a hairy time building them when the mineral prices are fluctuating so much. You could get lucky, you could lose out, or you can just stick it on the market and eventually mineral prices will rise again a bit so it will meet the market price (this is ok if you've got a spare billion isk going begging that you're not bothered about a quick return)
If I were building Charons, if I had built some that I felt like sitting on for a while, in the hope that prices would rise, then I'd stockpile them and not put them up for sale.
My hypothesis is that if I have something I want to sell, and the item is scarce or semi-scarce, and I put one or several such items up for sale at a "high waiting price" (rather than at a "competetive price"), then I create a "perception of abundance", which affects the market negatively from how I'd like it affected. I think it's better if the market can't "see" my stockpile.
Does that make any sense? Does it seem like a sound hypothesis, or is it silly? |
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Posted - 2013.09.11 00:20:00 -
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LocaI Spike wrote:The problem is that unless minerals rise again the price is very unlikely to rise again. Why? Because a lot of people can build freighters and many highsec only industrials consider them their top goal since it is a highsec-capital. And 7b ISK for the prints is not a lot these days.
I see that, but what do you think about my "perception of abundance" hypothesis? |
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