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Maximizing ISK via market sales?
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Rynn Vendran
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-07-03 18:48:41 UTC
I've noticed that depending which station you're at the buying price for items I'm looking to sell can fluctuate pretty wildly. I usually use around 20% as my cutoff after which I reprocess it and sell the ore on the market. Is there a way to find which location is offering the best buying price for items?

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Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#2 - 2013-07-03 18:56:30 UTC
www.eve-central.com aggregates market data from all regions. Note, it is not necessarily always up to date, though it's usually close enough.

Furthermore, depending on the item, it may not be worth remotely close to what the value of the minerals are. Meta 3-4 stuff in particular is vastly more valuable than flat t1 stuff, but reprocesses for the same amount. If buy orders aren't acceptable, put up your own sell orders.
Rynn Vendran
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-07-03 20:30:37 UTC
Perfect! Exactly what I was looking for... thank you!

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Solai
Doughfleet
Triglavian Outlaws and Sobornost Troika
#4 - 2013-07-04 00:00:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Solai
A tangent that may be useful: If you continue to operate in the same region of space, you'll continue to rack up the same loot over time, and will be able to catalog most of the possible/frequent rat droppings. After a while, you'll simply know all the lucrative items from the chaff on sight. But making a spreadsheet can help you along significantly in that process, especially since there's so many items to keep track of.

The spreadsheet I grew over time catalogs most of the local drops, includes their potential maximum reprocesses yield, their Jita price, the local-buy price, and the local weekly sales volume. That last number may be the tough one to get. But with those, that will allow you to figure:
[(sell price) - (buy price) - (shipping/tax/etc)] * (weekly volume) = Weekly potential profit.

As an example, try out putting the local rat breed's battleship meta-4 gun drops.

There's a lot of potential for hidden gems, and disguised dead-weight. Spreadsheets for tracking metrics, for profit, for the win.