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Understanding how to price a BPC
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Naioo
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-04-16 20:56:13 UTC
http://i.imgur.com/vkRjsvH.png

I found it while ratting, I looked through contracts and the prices seem to vary wildly, from 10M isk for one that has 3 runs, to 3M isk for one that has 50.

How do i know how much this is worth? Could someone explain the math to me so i know for future reference? (or a tool out there that maybe calculates it?)
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#2 - 2013-04-16 22:49:37 UTC
Well, rule of thumb would be the max price anyone else who can do math would pay would be (sell price-build price)*# of runs. In general, I wouldn't pay more than half that amount for the print; at that point the manufacturer/seller is splitting profits evenly with the print finder.

In the case of LASBs, this comes to basically nothing. XLASB prints can be rather impressively profitable though, so keep an eye out for those. Mediums are even better.

Good place to run this sort of calculation: http://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/blueprints/
Haulie Berry
#3 - 2013-04-17 00:04:17 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:


In the case of LASBs, this comes to basically nothing.



Nothing, or worse.

Just for funsies, the high buy price for those in Amarr is 154,000.

The sell-order price of the materials is ~218,000.

No thank you, sir.
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#4 - 2013-04-17 01:15:15 UTC
Haulie Berry wrote:
Zhilia Mann wrote:


In the case of LASBs, this comes to basically nothing.



Nothing, or worse.

Just for funsies, the high buy price for those in Amarr is 154,000.

The sell-order price of the materials is ~218,000.

No thank you, sir.


All the major hubs show a loss if you use buy orders. Sometimes there's a slight margin on sell orders. Sometimes.

Basically, they're horrible. By my half-assed formula you should have to pay someone to take the BPC.
Kara Books
Deal with IT.
#5 - 2013-04-17 18:56:26 UTC
generally people charge 25K-60K per hour spent researching.