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selling exploration signatures?
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RaKuRa Combesa
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-10-16 21:00:15 UTC
I understand that one can sell to positions of cosmic signatures that one finds through exploration. I was wondering how that works?

- What sites are in demand? (wormholes, ladars, gravi sites ,etc?)
- are all of those in low sec space to be valuable

- How does the transaction take palce when another player is interested? Where do you meet? How do you exchange ISK? Is there established protocol?


- Any datapoints on pricing for different sites?
Jim Era
#2 - 2012-10-16 21:04:42 UTC
goto want ad's section of the forum.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#3 - 2012-10-16 21:08:56 UTC
Entrances to empty wormholes are always in demand, fetch pretty good money as well.

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Dirty Wizard
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-10-17 03:07:02 UTC
The main problem with Site Sales is trust. Trust that you're not selling a lemon. Trust that the buyer will pay you after you give him the bookmark (or vice verse). Trust that you're not secretly devising a trap for naive buyers.

I personally would NEVER purchase a bookmark for a site from a stranger. Too easy to scam.

Typically, in corp sales of bookmark locations are preferred. Especially for wormhole corporations. Wormhole dwellers often have a LOT of scanning to do and on a daily basis. Each site receives a new scan tag after each downtime which means scanning down the same sites are a daily nuisance. Plus it's common for a wormhole to temporarily connect to another wormhole. That new hole needs scanning done too.

Most wormhole dwelling corporations would love to have a dedicated signature scanning player on hand. Their method for payment can vary from corp to corp however. Some will pay a percentage for each site you find. Others will pay you a flat fee for each one found. It's really up to the CEO of that corp to determine that.

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RaKuRa Combesa
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-10-17 03:22:06 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Entrances to empty wormholes are always in demand, fetch pretty good money as well.

IAJ Wat



Not sure what this means given I just started this game... what is range millions ?
Sin Pew
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2012-10-17 09:57:16 UTC
RaKuRa Combesa wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Entrances to empty wormholes are always in demand, fetch pretty good money as well.

IAJ Wat



Not sure what this means given I just started this game... what is range millions ?
Depends on the wormhole and there comes the difficulty, as a new player you have no experience on what makes a good wormhole from what makes a mediocre wormhole, you actually have to figure what PI products can be produced, if the system is occupied or not, the class and spatial phenomena, the static connection, etc.

Wormholes can sell a few 100 mil, but only if you can provide coherent intels on the wormhole and for that you need to know what's worthy, so you need experience. A wormhole might be very valuable to a corp looking for a specific combination, while totally worthless for another one with different interests. There's no fixed price for them.

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-10-17 11:20:56 UTC
As some stuff is answered already will just say how you can sell them.

Contracts.

You drag the bookmark (location, for the newer players) from People&Places to your hold so it becomes an ingame item.
You then set up the selling contract and can put in the receiving money for the transfer.

But like stated, TRUST is the big problem.

I can make a useless bookmark of a planet and then just say it's a juicy WH. People won't notice it untill they warp to it. And in low-sec/null-sec I can even set up a trap at the location when they warp to it.

So the first thing you really really need is become someone who is trustworthy to do business with.

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