Ships & Modules

Honestly? Any Low-sec purchases were made only because of convenience and/or urgency. I needed something now and I couldn't be arsed to go buy it or there wasn't a freight trip coming soon. In fact most of our pilots piggy-backed their orders with some other pilot who so happened to visit a trade hub (freightpooling).

And it wasn't that there weren't enough volume and selection. With a close-by high-sec island market that was stocked by our indie pilots and still people (including me) would prefer to order online from Jita even if it was in the other side of the map. And we weren't something special logistics-wise. We had maybe like 3 jump freighters that moved 2 or 3 times per week which is really not something great. But it was more than enough for a couple hundred chars.

Also. Faction/deadspace modules e.t.c Some purchases are made with additional pimping wanted or required. Why buy something overpriced in low-sec when you'll have to visit jita anyway to buy the rest of the modules?

I live in a very busy system in FW space and I supply a decent amount of mods and rigs for the local market. The local market consist of various militia corporations, local pirate gangs, and FW farmers who need to stock up. I also used to sell all major cruisers and destroyers that are often used in FW pvp plex fights.

Now despite the system being a rather busy area, sales are still relatively slow. But I just do it as a way to provide value to the local area.

I exclusively spend my time in low sec.

I buy everything i need for a month from high and transport it in to low. that said there are hubs in low sec that have limite stocks of certain mods, ships and ammo that can be used and they are not at ridiculous prices.

Guy ahead of it said it the best. Planned purchase = high sec. Urgency = low sec.

I live in low sec. I'd love to be able to buy locally there, and would happily pay more for you to take the risk on delivery. However, the nature of the game means that it's just as easy to train an alt to run into high sec and take the delivery risk on oneself- I already move about Low Sec without (much) fear and am more likely to survive with my stuff intact.

I can't really say there is a compelling reason to take the risk on anything but small, high value items you can transport in really fast aligning ships. I'm as likely to shoot you as buy your wares, and if you charge too much over high sec prices, everyone will just run an alt out there more than they already do.

Worth it? Mileage will vary greatly. Ammo, webs, scrams, ABs/MWDs- all stuff we put on pretty much every ship we fly. And we lose ships fast enough to keep you in business. I recommend SMALL sized items as frigs/destroyers are most common and die really fast- I often lose several frigs in an afternoon of hunting plex runners. Win some, lose some. But the indy guy wins no matter what.

It's just very likely you'll be shot with the same ammo you brought to sell. Forget massive hauls in indy ships. Think profit margin over volume.

High sec indy types may do well to form relationships with low sec dwellers that can take advantage of shorter research/copy/invention ques in dangerous space- or just move small loads around for you- if you want to deal with that sort. But criminals like me always need a friend in high sec, and low sec is our backyard...just saying, finding a low sec, even pirate corp to offer a business arrangement with is something too few high sec folk consider.

Lastly, it is much less dangerous to run an indy with a bunch of stabs and a hold full of ore into low sec, than it is to mine in low sec. If you want to live dangerously, simple ore is always going to sell just for criminals to be a little more self-sufficient- make ammo, etc.

Stuff sells in low sec pretty well, usually random loot stocks but you do get some big marketers.

Thing is you can get away with putting 10% on top or something, if you are prepared to wait a little while, most people usually just fire sell their loot at just 1% above or below high sec prices.

FW low sec used to be a good area for trade, though now with factions locked out of the opposing factions stations, and therefore the battlefields moving around, its not as stable to bother stocking up. Pirate systems like amamake and such, those pirates tend run down what they need and run back loot, to high sec hubs and so not that great either.

Truth be told, where things have moved quickly for me is having an alt restock modules in my corps station. Did we tend to lose a ton of Comets? Restock small rails and blasters!!! Drakefleets DIAF often? HMLs!!! Is it kinda crappy profiting like that off your own corp? Kinda. But if they don't wanna travel all that much, why should I NOT profit from it?

I never buy stuff in lowsec because the next tradehub is like 5 min. away. CCP's warp to 0 shrinked the universe to such a small size that u don't have to fly several hours to get to the next tradehub so trading in "borderzones" died.