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Steven Korrupt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-01-14 05:58:55 UTC
My idea is simple. Lot of people look to buy cap ships butt hassle to get ship moved to your area. Where I would come in for fee and isotopes move your ship to your location with our hassle of cynosure fuel ect. Assume this is done by item exchange contract to and from to cover value of said ship then recontract for price plus fee and fuel. Any ideas if even worth presuit?
Candy Oshea
Techfree Investment Group
#2 - 2013-01-14 06:15:42 UTC
Anything is possible with the right approach.

The right approach is you offering collateral, fuel etc and delivering them much like a courier contract, this alleviates the risk.

i think your major problem is going to be advertising & getting the word out there.

If i can supply my own fuel & cyno why do i need you?

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Alex Grison
Grison Universal
#3 - 2013-01-15 00:07:10 UTC
Lol

yes
Rual Storge
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-01-15 21:36:12 UTC
from a business point of view is it a good idea. Moving capitals around is effort. Some ppl are too lazy to move them. Problem is only that you cant exact give full collateral. Its is - or + the real value for several resons. Too much and you end up with alot of capitals in stock :p. To low and there is a trust issue.
Benjamin Arthie
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-01-15 21:38:49 UTC
Working with capitals is the way to make trillions. None can tell you if your idea will work, you have to test it to see. Remember that EVE is filled with lazy people, thats why we play EVE. If you need some type of kickstarter than talk to me.

I'm not a low-sec roamer, i just need to blow off some steam every now and then.
Asymoney
R-ISK
#6 - 2013-01-17 12:37:51 UTC
I need this services. Evemail+convo with prices and ships you can move /all dreads and all carriers needed/.
Grendell
Technologies Unlimited
#7 - 2013-01-17 16:50:48 UTC
I can see a lot of interest in such a service, as many people do not want to deal with the hassle of moving capitals themselves. very same reason people are willing to overpay for items located in their very own station, they don't want the hassle of moving around. So in short, yes it's a very viable service, but it will take time to build up a clientele base and the necessary trust to do this on a larger scale.

Feel free to brainstorm here, I'm sure you could get a lot of input.

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Tesal
#8 - 2013-01-18 19:06:16 UTC
Why bother with collateral? You can move the cap ship and sell it for an agreed upon price plus your fee. Its more money up front but removes the administrative hassles.
Andracin
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-01-19 06:53:54 UTC
He's probably going to need collateral or a couple trusting people to begin with...If he's smart and gets a business started he's probably smart enough not to walk off with a few captital ships. Im sure Grendell or Chribba could walk away with bulging pockets with all the items they secure but in this business your reputation is everything and there is more profit to be made being honest than a cheat.
Candy Oshea
Techfree Investment Group
#10 - 2013-01-19 11:47:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Candy Oshea
Tesal wrote:
Why bother with collateral? You can move the cap ship and sell it for an agreed upon price plus your fee. Its more money up front but removes the administrative hassles.


if anything it would add more risk simply doing an item exchange.

i doubt alliance leaders will open up sov space stations to one guy, so OP could dock quickly and avoid being bumped/ganked. they could try pos's but the OP is still exposed., due to cyno and its proximity to the pos shields. thats assuming grunt level buyers have access and pos passwords avail vOv

For the players living there it would be rather in-convenient i would think., the service works for NPC Null and LOW only, leaving his market audience to players living there only, as if i were in player owned sov and paid the premium for delivery, id want it traded to me in a station via w/e means.

For such an animal to be able to service the entirety of null, including the largest consumer 'satisfactorily', ( player owned SOV.?) , would require a well known person, to perhaps pave the way for a global cap ship market + delivery, a small alliance of high stature, that sells(Item exchange/player owned cap ship to be moved as per OP/whatever you economics types say) to everyone globally at a reasonable global price (very much inflated :) ). (Automated like api crap if the demand on the service is high).

One person could do it. with a significant investment on the character market, covering all Dreads & Carriers. est around 80-100b investment?, to get the right characters for the job. this is only a temporary investment, the accounts 'bought characters' can sit on power of 2 accounts, with stock standard "jump efficient" "sitters" that can be grown, adding more value to the business. they all need active accounts after all. original characters bought can be sold off, to pay the investor back.

the characters are all publically bought & disclosed obviously following CCP rules.

Can be split into days, "east map" one day, "west map" the other. to lighten the load.

with standings comes cyno beacons, meaning easy in and out + access to w/e channels they disscuss their intel in. (if a neutral to you roam is out)

could work, could be big. but someone with the status is needed. (i.e not me Oops)

WTB Moros Bear

iCandy  - I have accidently swallowed some Scrabble tiles, my next shit could spell disaster!