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So many T2 BPO's for sale..could it be..
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Joan Greywind
The Lazy Crabs
#41 - 2013-06-10 04:06:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Joan Greywind
Grendell wrote:
Nerdy McButtHurt Trald wrote:
T2 BPO's have cache, but no where near the actual value they used to have.

If you were to purchase a ship BPO "NOW", it would take at least 5 years of 24/7 production to get your money back at current rates. Some are even worse in return time.

Now with the anticipated changes to invention the profit will undoubtedly go down, so the time to get your money back is even longer.

Do you want to buy something that you won't get your money back until 2020 or 2025?
Will you even be playing?




Correction: At current minimum bids on some ship BPO's on Sell Forum, they are at 10 years + to get money back.


Not to beat a dead horse, but since the insertion of T2 bpos they have consistently gowing up in price. While the returns may no longer be spectacular like way back in the day, when you buy a bpo you arent putting your isk into a blackhole. You have a "physical" asset that has a value. So anything you manufacture from it, is pure profit from day one. Not to mention the value of the bpo will probably go up in price during the time you own it. So let's say you buy a bpo worth 50b, produce from it for a month and earn 1b isk and then sell the bpo. You're now 1b richer than you were a month ago.

Feel free to ignore me though, that's just my 2 isk.Smile



Here's the flaw, you are not considering the opportunity cost of the investment. Rightly in eve we don't have many direct investment opportunities like the real world, but even collateralized loans have a higher return with much less effort. And if there wasn't any other opportunities to invest you have to remember that the whole argument of I will just sell it for the same price or higher later, is exactly like the stupider investor will buy it from me (buy real estate they never decrease in value yay 2008). You are depending on someone being stupid and not figuring out that a payback period of 10 years+ producing 24/7, especially in a game, is a very bad investment.

Like others have said it just seems people want it for inflated egos and collections, but as far as economics it makes 0 sense.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
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