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Erfnam
Time Cube Syndicate Daikoku Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.01.29 06:38:00 -
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I'm not sure what the going rate is for private consultation. I am approached by an ever increasing number of people about properly setting up a POS for research. I definitely like helping others whenever possible, but not if it'll prevent me from focusing my efforts on my corporation/alliance and public ventures. I might as well be compensated to make up for any lost enjoyment and earnings. :)
What would be a fair fee to charge for those who need more than just basic guidance?
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Ramblin Man
Empyreum
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Posted - 2007.01.29 08:20:00 -
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Well, whatever price has to be limited on the top end by what's practical in terms of their situation (e.g. not charging 100M if they're only saving 1M/month [in ISK or time] should the POS be properly set up).
However, I think that limit is the only hard number for which you'll be able to get a feel. If you're not exclusive, then you'd just have to bump up the price until you're only doing as much consulting as you'd like to do - although a lot of people are probably coming to you via semi-personal contacts, so that doesn't seem very "nice."
The only fees I've heard of in POS-setup consultation were minimum + % of profits over a limited time period. Those were T2 production chain POSs though, so that model made more sense there.
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David H'Levi
Sniggerdly Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.01.29 08:23:00 -
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Rather than charging ISK, you should write a quick post about how to properly set up a POS and link it to any comers. It solves the problem, without having to figure out how much the service is worth.
Plus, it totally crushes the market for anyone else, which is always fun.
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Treelox
Amarr Frontier Technologies
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Posted - 2007.01.29 09:42:00 -
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david very nicely sums up my feelings on the whole matter aswell. --
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Ferrosa
Gallente Lyonesse Inc.
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Posted - 2007.01.29 13:40:00 -
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As above posters said, someone could make up a quick list on the basics of setting up a POS in highsec (or lowsec for that matter). If there are additional questions, they could request a convo with someone more experienced on the matter for, let's say, 50M an hour I'm sure it would get stickified if it turned out to be a nice, handy post
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Ramblin Man
Empyreum
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Posted - 2007.01.29 21:41:00 -
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There's already a few in the starbase forum (example). I'll keep my opinions to myself, but they do pull together a decent amount of info on the subject.
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JP Moregain
Gallente EVE Reserve Bank
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Posted - 2007.01.29 23:16:00 -
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Erfnam, Given that you are a fairly busy person whose main eve-job is not consulting the fair thing to do is probably :
1) figure out what you opportunity cost is (i.e. roughly how much money you would generate with the time is you weren't helping people.
2) Charge people your opportunity cost as a minimum, and possibly a bit more, particularly is you want to discourage people from using you time unneccesarily.
My guess, given the little that I know about you, is that using you as a consultant should be prohibitively expensive for most people. At least enough so that they will read a lot on their own before wasting your time...
Best regards,
JP
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Ramblin Man
Empyreum
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Posted - 2007.01.30 02:00:00 -
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Originally by: JP Moregain Erfnam, Given that you are a fairly busy person whose main eve-job is not consulting the fair thing to do is probably :
1) figure out what you opportunity cost is (i.e. roughly how much money you would generate with the time is you weren't helping people.
2) Charge people your opportunity cost as a minimum, and possibly a bit more, particularly is you want to discourage people from using you time unneccesarily.
My guess, given the little that I know about you, is that using you as a consultant should be prohibitively expensive for most people. At least enough so that they will read a lot on their own before wasting your time...
Best regards,
JP
The problem with opportunity cost in this case is that Erfnam's question isn't an economic one. Replying that he should use the opportunity cost is like replying similarly when your neighbor asks whether or not he should cut down a tree that he likes.
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Kua Burrow
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Posted - 2007.01.30 08:22:00 -
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Edited by: Kua Burrow on 30/01/2007 08:19:14
Originally by: Ferrosa 50M an hour
This sounds a fair rate. Would anyone else agree that the currency in EVE is a bit um silly . It's like living in pre-Euro Italy or worse still Turkey.
EDIT: Any offense to Turkish people is completely unintended.
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Ulrich Sternaxe
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Posted - 2007.01.30 13:07:00 -
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Originally by: Kua Burrow
This sounds a fair rate. Would anyone else agree that the currency in EVE is a bit um silly . It's like living in pre-Euro Italy or worse still Turkey.
EDIT: Any offense to Turkish people is completely unintended.
What about the Italians? They're not important because they don't make enough noise? Maybe the Italians should start blowing things up as well
Ok, sorry for the off-topic joke, just had to...
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Erfnam
Time Cube Syndicate Daikoku Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.01.30 19:00:00 -
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Thanks for the feedback. I think I'm going to take it on a case by case basis. Price will depend on the person asking, my mood, phase of the moon, etc. If time was not my biggest constraint, I would write up a guide that I could link for people.
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GPszith
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Posted - 2007.01.31 03:29:00 -
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Aren't there some online guides for this?
If not, I'd also suggest writing one. Even if it just answered the basic questions.
I'd then take this as a market opporunity and provide consultation services. I'd charge around 100m per hour OR perhaps simply some price per question. I am guessing most of the questions you get would be difficult to bill hourly. So perhaps just 10m a question?
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