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Sir Ibex
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Posted - 2008.06.17 01:35:00 -
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Can someone please explain to me how people deal with region wide orders?
Let's say I put an order for ammo X. Several stations will get filled fairly quickly with thousands of said ammo. But the rest of the stations will end up with tiny quantities of 100's or less.
Options that I see so far:
1)Hauler contracts? But...
There is no reason to pay someone to haul these for you, cause the amounts are very small. Not worth it!
2)You could sell them if you can sell at distance, but chances are you will only be able to sell them for less than what you paid originally.
3)You can bait the other region wide buyer to offer more than you for whatever it is you are buying, and then sell all those small quantities to him. You will barely make anything off of that, but at least you "might" get your money back. You are then left with only large quantities at some stations, and those you can pay people to haul for you. This is the only viable option IMO.
4)I am not mentioning hauling all this stuff by yourself, because doing so can drive a man crazy.
Is there something I'm missing? Are there any other options? Clearly, region wide orders must not be "easy" because if they were, there would be many more of them.
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Nido Gentz
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Posted - 2008.06.17 01:54:00 -
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I believe there is a fifth option and that is to reprocess the items (if you paid less than reprocess value) and then sell the minerals. This is probably how it is handled with ammo and other tech 1 modules. For more expensive items, hauling then becomes more viable.
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Frenden Dax
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Posted - 2008.06.17 01:55:00 -
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That looks about right to me, especially #2 (which is what happened to me back when I was trying out region-wide buy orders). Low margin high volume trading region-wide is insanity, but I find that occasionally it pays off when trafficking in high margin low volume stuff.
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Tasko Pal
Heron Corporation
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Posted - 2008.06.17 07:08:00 -
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I just leave them there. Usually it's not worth doing anything with them. If there isn't enough there to pick up or deliver, there surely isn't enough to reprocess. If it's cluttering up your assets list, then trash it. Normally, what I do is renew the old order and just wait till there's enough to pick up. It still have some omber in the Sinq Laisson region from a single region buy I did back last August. I was getting little lumps of ore all over the place. I think everyone was refining their ore and then selling the leftover to me. So I'd have stations with 50 omber in it. It wasn't even worth going through and remote selling. Every so often, I'll dock in a strange station and see one of those little piles of omber. It's like Christmas. 
Incidentally, there's some obvious synergy to having multiple regional orders. That means it's more likely that you can find enough goods there to fly by and pick it up.
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Salpad
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Posted - 2008.06.17 08:14:00 -
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 Originally by: Tasko Pal
I just leave them there. Usually it's not worth doing anything with them. If there isn't enough there to pick up or deliver, there surely isn't enough to reprocess. If it's cluttering up your assets list, then trash it. Normally, what I do is renew the old order and just wait till there's enough to pick up. It still have some omber in the Sinq Laisson region from a single region buy I did back last August. I was getting little lumps of ore all over the place. I think everyone was refining their ore and then selling the leftover to me. So I'd have stations with 50 omber in it. It wasn't even worth going through and remote selling. Every so often, I'll dock in a strange station and see one of those little piles of omber. It's like Christmas.
Incidentally, there's some obvious synergy to having multiple regional orders. That means it's more likely that you can find enough goods there to fly by and pick it up.
Well said.
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Taikun Brunel
Gecko Enterprises
Teldar Paper
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Posted - 2008.06.17 09:05:00 -
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Trash them and add the incremental cost to the other orders. Chances are you still filled your order at a decent price despite the intentional losses.
Taikun
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Kazuo Ishiguro
House of Marbles
Zzz
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Posted - 2008.06.17 09:30:00 -
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As an alternative to placing region buy orders, train up the remote order management skills and place several separate remote buy orders centred on the busier systems.
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Roguehalo
RH Ship Brokers
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Posted - 2008.06.17 10:47:00 -
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I actually did this a good while ago, and what I did was to make lower sell orders for the small quantities, and I discovered 'bottom feeders' would scoop up all the little stuff.
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Sir Ibex
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Posted - 2008.06.17 13:04:00 -
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All good advice. Thanx.
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