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Liquidation of loot
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Jonathan Storm
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2014-01-21 17:16:15 UTC
So I haul an industrial near full of salvage and drops to Jita, start selling and making sell orders like I used to. But I have 200 random pieces of low value items, and each action takes a bit of time and so an hour later of just selling stuff I wonder if there is a better way. Reprocessing seems like a possibility as I can highlight a whole list and break it all down. So what is the best way to liquidate loot? I am positive sell orders is the way to go on high value stuff. And Salvage in Jita seam to sell for reasonable right out the box. But the low value stuff 10,000 or less seems almost like a waste of time to deal with.
Paul Otichoda
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-01-21 17:25:30 UTC
generally anything under 10000 you can just reprocess, their too common and too little in demand to be worth it. Saves safe and allows you to use the junk to make something more valuable.
Daniel Plain
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-01-21 17:28:10 UTC
you can reprocess most modules into minerals. select all the stuff, right-click on one of the items, select 'reprocess'. you usually make a small loss because most modules are slightly more expensive than their mineral value but you save a lot of time that way.

if you mission often, take a look at eve refinery. it's a software that can tell you which modules are the most valuable and which are actually worth less than the minerals they are made of.

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Cara Forelli
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-01-21 19:42:42 UTC
You can take advantage of the filters in the station cargo hold. Filter out the meta 4 items and make sell orders for them as they usually fetch decent prices. Reprocess everything else.

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Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#5 - 2014-01-21 21:05:00 UTC
Cara Forelli wrote:
You can take advantage of the filters in the station cargo hold. Filter out the meta 4 items and make sell orders for them as they usually fetch decent prices. Reprocess everything else.


More reliably, you could filter on average cost.
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#6 - 2014-01-22 00:10:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Sabriz Adoudel
I filter like this:

- Items over 1 million ISK: These are sold with attention paid to each one. In addition, I also try to think "Is there a way to make more ISK out of these; such as moving them to a place where they are in demand". I sell these on sell orders most times.
- Items from 100k to 1m ISK: These are sold with attention paid to stacks of 10 or more. Single ones are dumped on buy orders when I need ISK fast.
- Exception: Armor plates, hull repair modules - these are reprocessed. I know from experience that these are Mexallon heavy and their reprocessing value is high.
- Items under 100k: Stacks of 50+ are sold; smaller stacks are reprocessed. Yes there's a bit of waste here, but time is money.
- Items I bulk purchase for personal use (e.g. fittings for gank Catalysts) go into the main station hangar. Other things I accumulate (drops from exhumers I blow up, etc) go into station containers. A station container is a very good investment and cheap.


If you set up those filters, then getting 90-97% of max value from your loot is fast.

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Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#7 - 2014-01-23 01:37:57 UTC
Standing policy:

- If it's Meta 4, keep it to use, sell, or give to a friend. If not...

- Is there a buyer willing to pay a good price (fat chance)?

- Is it worth enough for the wait for a buyer to come around? Place a sell order above what the scammers are offering and wait for a real customer.

- If all the buy orders in the area are all rip-offs aimed at the new and the clueless (which is 99% of the time), then reprocess, recycle, and feed the minerals back into BPO to make stuff that will sell for a fair price.

Selling cheap crap isn't much a profit margin per item, but you'd be surprised how much ISK that 200+ sell orders fro hundreds or even thousands of cheap items can accumulate while you're sleeping.

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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#8 - 2014-01-23 04:24:19 UTC
Another option is to contract your bag of loot to someone who values their time less than you do. Let them do all the clicking and fussing around while you just pocket half the profits.

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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2014-01-24 20:12:43 UTC
Lot's of good answers in this thread.

I'm not worried about getting max profits and I definitely don't like spending time working market spreadsheets for maximum returns.

Basically I'm more of a pack rat.

I stockpile all meta lv 3 and meta lv 4 items. Everything else get's reprocessed into minerals which also get stockpiled. Every few months or so I'll collect everything up and once in a while sell the goods in market.



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