Market Discussions

Greetings, from the Great State of Texas.


I 'm Intrested to know if a single player in a Freighter could make his/her own trade by buying large quantitys of ships,equipment,amunition,drones and the like then hauling them to a system near low sec. then useing a deep space transport/blockade runner to get them into a station in low sec.

Kind of funny but it would be supplying the pirates that wish to destroy/pod you an i could get the last laugh buy making them pay me a kind of ransome because they would rather buy it their instead of going into high sec for their goods.

Since i would be transporting the good a far ways, and not to mention the goods are being sold in low sec one could expect a good amount more in profits for the increased trave; time/risk.

Just wondering if this could be done especially if i had alittle help from my corporation running blocker for me.

Lemme know what Ya'll think about the concept.


Thanks - Schlumberger Oil Field Services LTD

First hello to a fellow Texan. The idea is good in theory but most people that are pirates have alts that move stuff or hire Red Frog or Push to move.

If they hire other corporations to move it then that gets expensive. way more expensive then just grabbing what they need out of a local station. I also have a PvP account who could scout the low sec systems to see whats hot on the market.

Well maybe your right but you say "we" that means corporation im assumeing. I dont think your corp mates would all contract a Freight corp to do the hauling. Im talking about someone who wants to replace a couple lost drones or even raplace a t1 Cruiser or Assault frig or something small scale.

My PvP alt could even pilot ships himself from the highsec/low sec that are too big to throw in a Transpot/BCR.

If you want to Dwell into starting your own trade hub, you should chose a highsec system adjacent to key regional path's tunnels etc.

Once you get that set up, then you should begin dwelling onto lowsec.

Use public contracts, they are the only choice when it comes to a steady stream of freight, that isn't needed there in 5 min, something that can wait up to 14 days.

But I have to admit, push and frog are pretty fast, every single time iv contracted with them.

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You can sell fully fitted (common/typical pvp builds), Roamers LOVE that kind of stuff!
you cant imagine the pain as you sit in your half assembled ship, having to decide weather to go help your buddies with a handy capped ship or Fit T1? or fly to that station 2 jumps out, knowing that its going to take you a bit of time before you could go and rejoin.

Durring my incursion running days in eve online, I was also contemplating, starting a trade hub, asking around, the result I came to was that.

Thanks for all yalls thoughts/suggestions. Im going to give it a try.

the FW idea above is a really good one. look into egg its 1 jump into low sec. talk to ceo of moar tears, fweddit, ilaw to see about getting blue so that you can transport alot easier.

I sent you a mail.

ji there. louisiana here typing on a damn xbox. i recommend you have more than one trader with decent skills....say 200 to 300 orders. you surely can make mucho isk man. but it has to be in a ¨"town square" type system. lot of good suggestions here. undocks are worth considering as i have horrible memories of serpentis prime.

fully fitted ships are a plus if you or someone in your corp can fit them. and dont price gouge is my best advice i can give you because yeah when they notice suddenly theres a market where there wasnt one before. if you gouge then they will probably only buy from you a couple times and just go back to thier previous buying habits i.e. shipping in from amarr jita etc.

gouging is subjective but in my experience under 15% is usually ok and over ppl start to shop elsewhere.
i personally stay around 10% profit because it gets me lots of repeat business.

the advice offered above about null staging systems and fuel is solid but finding one that isnt camped by other traders can be hard and time consuming if its outside your normal operating regions. do the same with cynos and racial frigs
and pay attention to wars going on in null look at carrier kms and if you are quick and crafty you can sell siege and triage modules at these systems too.

with two max traders you have 610 orders. that is more than enogh to supply all the pvpers and low level mision runners and then some.

nice to see more southerners playing hope your hub works out. my first try didnt but all i get is trolled on the forums. ppl actually helping which is good.