vanBuskirk
Caldari
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Posted - 2007.12.13 12:12:00 -
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I'm not as rich as some here, not by a long way undoubtedly, but as I only play maybe 10 hours a week...
Anyway, here's some of the way I do things. I trade, and manufacture, in a very active mission hub. This has a few effects. One is that there are a heck of a lot of underpriced guns and the like floating around - by underpriced I mean below mineral value. So I don't even try to sell guns - what I do is buy the silly-cheap guns, melt them down and make with them stuff that will sell. There are also often quite a lot of really cheap drone alloys around - they go in the pot as well.
Stuff that sells? Ammo - obviously. Also salvagers, small tractors (sometimes - the market is often saturated) and such things as shield relays and boost amps. None of these drop from rats, except shield relays and those don't drop much. Also sometimes ships. Only BS and some haulers - they are the only ships worth my time. Rigs as well, when I've collected enough free components to make a run worth the effort. (Yes, I do know about "stuff you get free isn't free".)
Which leads to another point. If you manufacture as well as sell, then you have another limit - that of manufacturing slots. It stands to reason that you should make and sell stuff that maximises that resource as well. I am currently struggling to keep the sell orders running already - so although the margin on light missiles is probably quite good, spending 2 days making 100k flameburst is a poor idea because the isk per hour of factory time is rubbish. I haven't got the time in my schedule to train my mass production up further, unfortunately.
I would appreciate any hints on how to make more isk - assuming that no trade secrets are involved, and bearing in mind that running around for hours picking up cheap goods is a no-no. As I can make maybe 20 million per hour running level 4s, the bottom limit is around that.
As for the 0.01 isk undercutting - sometimes you have to. If you don't, pretty soon the price goes down so far that you might as well melt down your stock. I had to do that earlier this week - it grates.
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