Rupert Plush
New Eden Depository
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Posted - 2007.12.03 01:35:00 -
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Greetings all.
I'm writing to you today to announce an investment opportunity for players and corporations in preparation for the Trinity patch currently expected to land Wednesday this week.
Short background:
New Eden Depository is a relatively new corporation (about a month old now) that was created at the time to be the central point for investment in a network of (mostly) empire invention POSs. The 'network' at present includes 13 corporations and 3 players who own invention POSs or have access to outpost/station invention services. I believe the majority of the POSs are based in or very close to Jita. Most of these entities have been inventing for almost as long as it has been possible, and have an impressive array of source BPOs, equipment and funds. All of the network are friends that have played eve together for a long while, and trust one another a great deal. Some are RL friends.
The New Eden Depository was created to allow friends to invest across the network as opposed to just a single person or corporation. Since it's formation it has paid out between 12% and 18% each week to all who has invested. Currently it holds just short of 4 billion ISK in the bank that is available to the invention network when needed. As a rule I aim to ensure no more than 60% is ever 'on loan' at any one time to allow people to withdraw their ISK investment at relativity short notice.
Here comes the important bit:
With the new T2 ships arriving very soon we would like to open up the opportunity to invest to the wider EVE community. With the invent-ability of battleships and freighters coming soon we are looking to increase our invention funds considerably. Put simply, at present we are unable to invent freighters or battleships at anything like the rate we want to because of the risk and cost of components.
The New Eden Depository receives back 50% of the profits generated from the ISK it loans, and to date has been offering a ROI of roughly 15% per week (paid on a Sunday).
How to invest:
Transfer a sum of ISK (multiples of 100million only please) to New Eden Depository (corp). You will receive the return we have generated on your investment weekly, and it will be either added to your investment amount or transferred to your player or corporation. If sending an investment please specify which you'd prefer either in the comments or a separate evemail to this char.
Please also consider that the battleship and freighter invention we hope to be running as soon as possible that there will be a large period of time where the ISK is tied up in T2 components and T1 ships, so we may be unable to offer any returns during this initial period. I'd expect this period to last between 1 and 3 months, but again this depends on how much ISK people invest, and what corporations invent and how successful they are.
If by some miracle too much ISK is received (yeah right!) I will simply return the full amount. This is because if we can't actually use the ISK then it will only serve to water-down everyone's ROI.
Trust:
I've thought long and hard about this, and the truth is there is no way I can prove to potential investors that this is indeed genuine. In the end it was decided we'd put this idea out in the hope that people trust us, and if it works then great, if people aren't able to trust us enough to invest then I'm only sorry that is so.
As this is COAD, and the inevitable replies will follow, please address any questions or concerns in evemail to this char and I'll reply as fast as I can (I'm EU timezone).
Many thanks.
Rupert Plush
CEO of New Eden Depository
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