Originally by: Akita T

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Edited by: Akita T on 15/06/2007 17:52:53

Originally by: Frug

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couldn't understand that mining minerals to produce ships from a 0 ME BPO, with low industry skills, was stupid and not at all free... Not to mention wasting isk...

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Heck, even with perfect build skills and almost perfectly researched blueprint, selling close to or UNDER mineral value is equally stupid, if not more.

P.S. Well, if you're not trying to eliminate a competitor from a certain market, that is. That's actually a good idea. But I digress.

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Originally by: Banana Torres

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Its market PvP aint it. If I use the minerals I get from whoring level 4s to put my battlecruisers on the market at 2% above the highest buy order price in the region then thats my choice.

Which, btw, is what I am doing. And using the rewards from the missions to keep my POS running so that I don't even have to pay the research and building costs. And even betterer the agents I am running are from R&D corps so now I have access to loverly mechanical engineering R&D agents. So my invention jobs cost me nuthin now too.

Wouldn't you rather I was still a Privateer, providing you with customers, rather than me ****ting on your lawn ruining your profit margin?

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Originally by: Banana Torres

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I also get enjoyment from screwing over the whining carebear crafters who took away from me the thing that I enjoyed the most in my Eve life, being an, albeit a not very good, Privateer.

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Originally by: Jennai

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Originally by: BluOrange

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It's not that they're not perfectly efficient, these people who fail to do the numbers are costing themselves money, more often than not.

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I don't care if they're costing themselves money or not, but these people are the reason I switched from multiple-region equipment manufacturing to battleships in a hub station.

all it takes is one idiot to set an order too low, and then you have to cancel your order and sit on the items until they undercut below the reprocessing threshold, or spend hours hauling all your crap around hoping to find a place where you can get a couple days of sales before the undercutters come.

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Originally by: Jennai

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undervalue selling isn't nearly as much of a problem in loot sales as it is with T1 production. loot sellers aren't churning out dozens of the same item per day, and they generally aren't obsessive about babysitting their orders and undercutting everyone else like the small T1 builders.

if you put a decent loot item up at a low price, some guy will be like "damn that's a great deal" and buy it right away. but if you put a pile of built T1 modules up at a low price, five guys will be like "damn he undercut me I CANNOT ALLOW THIS" and the market goes to hell until some producers leave and demand exceeds supply, or someone with a lot of money gets sick of it and buys everything to reset the price.

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