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Not really very profitable at all. Lowsec is too close to highsec, and generally most pirates have alts they use for doing highsec runs for any items they may need.

I guess deep low sec would maybe have some profits to be made, but the risk/reward is very low. Seeding markets is pretty much the lowest risk/reward when it comes to what lowsec has to offer.

Generally low sec folks are far more likely to try and blow your ship up and take the drops then to buy the items from you on the market.

I've had some success selling cap booster charges in low sec. They don't get snapped up quickly, no, but people are lazy and sometimes don't want to bother with a treck to high sec just to restock on consumables.

That said, I certainly wouldn't try to build a business out of low sec sales as your main form of income.

Since I've started living in LowSec, I would say the things I am MOST lazy about signing in my alt to fetch are faction and T2 ammos, along with (like Pinstar said) cap booster charges. Nobody likes taking a cloaky into LowSec just so you can keep shooting things.

Possibly with the ASB mania cap boosters are being used even more. Profitable? No clue.

EDIT: Oh and scanning probes/ships (T1)/fittings. Mine tend to get shot alot, and buying Magnates every few days is annoying

If you can work the cost into your pricing, you might look into hiring a reputable organization like Black Frog Logistics to move items for sale in bulk, then set up shop. They're blue to a lot of low-sec dwellers, use jump freighters for greater safety, and are completely trustworthy.

I'd imagine to make this work economically, if you can at all, you'd need to max out a shipment, either in collateral or in volume.

This is not an issue if you know how to survive in low-sec. In contrast to 0.0 where you have those pesky bubbles you can travel through low-sec almost 100% safe if you know how to do. I know pirates will hate me for sharing this secret information but here are the rules for you to apply:

1. Never ever use the Ossogur => Amamake gate. Just applying this rule will safe you 50% of losses if you are trading around the Heimatar area. There are many other (maybe a few jumps longer) ways which are much safer. In other regions there are also well known pirate camp locations... just avoid them.
2. Get a blockade runner transport (Prowler, Viator, Crane, Prorator) and fit a covert operation cloak on it. With this you can warp cloaked which means you can escape gate camps. Just jump, warp and cloak. Problem solved.
3. Finally, if you apply the above rules the remaining risk is undocking at a camped station. Solution for this: create insta-warp out bookmarks for all the stations you usually dock at. Then you just undock, warp to bookmark and cloak.

Doing this you can earn a lot of ISK in low-sec. There is not much competition in low-sec with regards to trade, so you get good prices and good margins.

Finally, if you really have the balls to do this here is a list of systems you should consider providing with stuff: Eszur, Kourmonen, Ezzara.

Good advice here. Thanks.

yk

While I have to admit that yeah, we scurvy pirates are much more likely to shoot you than let you pass hoping you are carrying ammo we need- it's also true that it's rather easy to move gate to gate safely in low sec.
Most pirates prefer small ships unable to tank gate fire and thus I've watched hundreds of haulers pass right on thru my little slice of New Eden with absolutely nothing to fear from me.

Other than a relative few 'gates of doom', I think care bears vastly over inflate the fear of gate camps. They are extremely uncommon in my experience. I live in low, make dozens of jumps a day there and after loading my avoidance list with a handful of systems- very few camps and then only where you expect- entry points from high sec or null.....
Remember- often what may look like a huge camp fleet on a gate is a roaming fleet with a scout on the other side looking for a target. Don't want to blow up local then expect anyone to fight that lone 'ceptor.....(oh they'll still happily blow you to dust, but just don't mistake this for an actual 'gate camp')

It's a mixed emotion-- I want to kill you....but I welcome your efforts to bring me the ammo to do it...........

It's on the same wave length of those suicide ganking miners' Hulks and then seeing the ganked guy buy a new Hulk from their sell orders. Awesome sauce!

One option is to focus on selling the items that the low-sec locals require to actually remain self sustaining.

Consider which construction materials are perhaps difficult to haul, or in short supply in that area. Trit is a great example. Few miners in low sec, and needed for anything = good prices, and the locals will thank you for it.