Quelque Chose
New Eden Roller Disco Supply
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Posted - 2008.05.14 18:54:00 -
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 Originally by: Dingo
Venkul Mul
The value of my minerals is exactly the price at which I can sell them on market. Doing extra work to sell the end product at the same or lower price is idiot.
You sir are quite wrong!
I value my minerals at 0 isk becasue they are sitting out in space waiting to be mined. If I mine 8 mill tritanium for a Battle Ship it's cost me nothing (I know what your going to say but the cost of mining drones and crystals is next too nothing) The industrialist who buys his minerals off the market to build the same Battle Ship has to sell them again above the value he bought them at in order to make a profit, wheres the sence in that?
Guys like this are why you shouldn't get into building Ravens kids. There are still some parts of mfg that are worth your time, but unfortunately a lot of shipbuilding is dominated by these clods who think that trading 100m worth of minerals plus a 20m BPC plus some odd few thousand in slot costs for 90m ISK is Teh Besterest Way To Git Rich EVAR.
Not surprisingly, this guy is Caldari and most likely lives in The Forge... along with a screaming zillion others of his ilk.
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Quelque Chose
New Eden Roller Disco Supply
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Posted - 2008.05.14 19:11:00 -
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Originally by: cal nereus
I'm just going to use myself as an example of a small-time salesperson:
As long as my small quantity of used products are equally effective and just as valuable as a big manufacturer's large quantity of newly built products, I will continue to feel free to undercut prices. I see three reasons for this: used products are just as good as new products, my top priority is selling fast and not necessarily for profit, and selling in bulk has no apparent benefit.
Now, if used products were somehow less effective than newly built products, and/or if there was some noticeable cost reduction in building in bulk, we could see some real changes to these trends.
You're not the problem. If there's a huge, perfectly good supply of product [x] on the used market then that should tip any manufacturer off that they ought not be building more of it in the first place. Supply, demand, blah blah blah.
And as much as it would be a cash cow for me I'm not much interested in seeing equipment degrade as it racks up mileage. Too much hassle, no fun, and there's already a significant chance that some evildoer will make it asplode anyway.
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