Name: Phloxis
Race: Amarr
Bloodline: True Amarr

Shiptype: Usually Magnate
Area of operations: Kor-Azor > Finea > Misha & Ordion (0.5 sec)
Reward: 15 million ISK

I will pay if you can provide a certified killmail. 10 million ISK bonus for podkill. Let him know why he is killed.

35m for KM. 200m for Podkill. Eve mail me for details and contract.

My terms are not negociable. This is an easy assignment. Take it or leave it.

This is an easy assignment

Name: Phloxis
Race: Amarr
Bloodline: True Amarr

Shiptype: Usually Magnate
Area of operations: Kor-Azor > Finea > Misha & Ordion (0.5 sec)
Reward: 15 million ISK

I will pay if you can provide a certified killmail. 10 million ISK bonus for podkill. Let him know why he is killed.

Edit : Won't reward his corpmates if they kill him.

You definitely sound mad. There's nothing better than mad furry carebears. Lulz on the lowball reward. I am now more inclined to find where you mission and ninja salvage you until you put a 1 Bil bounty on me. Ya, I'm most definitely going to do that now.

good call, me too. lets hope hes a "shooter"

My terms are not negociable. This is an easy assignment. Take it or leave it.

I was going to give you a typical troll reply but I decided to give you a straight up answer.

35m for a KM is a very fair offer. There are a few ways to get a kill mail. The most straight forward way is a Gank. To do that I would fit a Thrasher for alpha then find him through a locator. The thrasher would run me about 3m or so (5 if I T2 the gyros) and the locator would be another 250k. None of that offset by insurance. Then there is the hit to sec status, which wouldn't be much but it is worth something to me.

Secondly, if he is not in an NPC corp, I could war dec him. That would be 8m if he is in a corp and 50m if he is in an alliance. That would take 2 days to start (corp vote of 24 hrs and a warm up of 24 hours) during which his corp could dec shield and waste all that isk I spent. Or he could, if he has enough willing corpies, fight me. Which would be okay but that would cost you a lot more than 10m because then you are talking about merc services. I do provide that service within reason but, honestly, I am more of a special jobs corp.

As for a pod kill, I would have to set up a trap for your victim involving at least two players. One of those players would be in a smart bombing battlecruiser or battleship. If I go the bc route, the results are about 75% guaranteed. With a BS, I would be looking at about 90-95% success. It would require study and that means time. Time that has a value to me. So, I would look at loosing 40m for a SBombing Ferox to 85m for a Sbombing Scorpion. None of that insurable. Then there is the larger sec hit, possibly up to over 1 full point, depending of factors. That would keep who I would use to do the pod kill out of 1.0 space. Which would be very inconvenient. If I contracted it out to someone, they would want at least 200m for the pod kill which would mean that I would have to charge you 250m. (I have to make isk somehow.)

So, in conclusion, I understand you have a budget. The problem is your budget is not big enough. What you need to decide is if you want this person dead bad enough to pay to get it done. Otherwise, I would suggest you either a) ignore him as he ninja's your loot or b) train a Noctis and loot it yourself. Although, I have been able to out loot and salvage a Noctis on more than one occasion. It just takes skill and dedication

tl:dr Lesson to a new person on the economics of contract killing in Eve.

P.S. All prices listed above are Jita prices and subject to change without notice. Any billing questions should be addressed to customer service.

A pod gank requires significant time investment to recover the lost sec status. Hunting someone in highsec requires one recover any lost, so you're going to pay a premium for a criminal podding. Also, the target would gain kill rights which can be a significant hassle if he decides to exercise them.

The fact that you're offering anything at all to get this guy instead of dealing with it yourself just marks you as an easy target.

My price was based on a gank destroyer price indeed, and I could do that myself if I had time for this.

Oh, my sides. They hurt from the laughter. You don't have time to gank him. Right. None of that time you spend hour after hour killing mindless NPC rats could be used to, I dunno, exact revenge? It takes all of 15 minutes max to fit up a gank Thrasher, run a quick locator, find him, and start shooting. My lord, it's no wonder why you furries don't get any respect.

BTW - pay me 35mil and I won't suicide gank you. You convinced me this is a very reasonable price. You have 24hrs to respond.

Well, if you guys (pirates, hitmen, whatever) prefer to shoot your customers, you are not as smart as I thought.

You make the mistake of assuming we're in this for money. Or maybe you make the mistake of thinking your offer is substantial enough that we'd be doing it for the money.

You're asking someone to spend potentially hours hunting for a target, gank his little T1 scanning frigate, and then spend a fair amount of time recovering their lost sec status. For less than 50 million. You need to think bigger if you want to get back at this guy.

Well, what would you suggest ?

Well, I don't want to break him. I just want to make a point.

And... if 35M is not enough for you, just move on to the next contract. I really don't know what's so terrible about me making an offer for people who like to kill others.

Well, I don't want to break him. I just want to make a point.

And... if 35M is not enough for you, just move on to the next contract. I really don't know what's so terrible about me making an offer for people who like to kill others.

Hi, I'm looking to exploit people by using their expertise and undervaluing their work while at the same time patronising them by saying anyone can do the work.