Originally by: RichThugster

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Originally by: Naal Morno

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Well, despite repetitive posts on how expensive and rip offish Coverts Ops Cloaks II devices are, nobody wanted to pay anything decent for this BPO... Interesting.

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well since the modules are "rip offish" and "expensive" why would you sell the BPO for anything less than what could be described as "rip offish" and "expensive"

You AFAIK hold a large number of the covert ops cloaks, you could very easily sell this BPO for say 60bil+ and then straight afterwards, crash the market. It is simply a cartel, there is nothing in place such as with HACs where demand totally outstrips supply, the prices are artificially high at 65mil for a cloak, i spect build costs are under 15mil (provided you have all the other cloak BPOs (which im pretty sure you do) you could 1/2 the price, still make a hefty profit, and laugh as some goon (not the goonswarm sort, but the plonker sort) has his payback time doubled, and you sit on his 60bil isk, for a BPO which will drop to half that.

That is probably a big reason as to why you had no bids for this. This close to Kali, big ppl are liquidising (such as yourself) mid range are saving isks, and picking up safe investments. Something, which the demand dictates, not the seller. such as Command ship BPOs, as more and more ppl skill for them, the price will rocket. Around the time of the tournament, most command ships were under 100mil. now the majority are heading around 200mil. its not because ppl raised prices, its because demand has grown.

look at HACs, back not long after launch, you could hardly give a cerberus away, virtually all HACs were around the 80mil mark. Command ships are in less of asupply, so the price will raise well above 300mil imho.

So exactly why would someone waste isk on a BPO which has such huge profit margins, in a market which is cartel dictated, when they could invest a similar amount of isk, in a growing market, which will provide a much more stable investment?

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