Market Discussions

You are missing the point. It does not matter what item I can show as an example.

The points is, this reprocessing business will not work with sell orders. You need buy orders and than you can make money with reprocessing. Not only that, you need perfect refining, 6.67 corp standing with the station owner and great trade skills. If you have all of this, you will make money with reprocessing and like some big ones already posted here, you can make good money.

Exactly there are a lot of easier ways to make isk. You need a lot of isk to make it work and even more time. The reason I did it was because back then imo it accounted for about 30% of the mineral market. This combined with direct mineral purchases meant you could effect the mineral market and feel mineral trends early. My goal was to start doing the same in the other regions and play with the mineral markets for even larger sums of isk, but I was getting a bit bored with the markets/game and then CCP introduced the massive loot nerf.

Back then there weren't as many markets in eve. Minerals was the big one. We had T2 (mostly dominated by T2 bpo at the time), and moon goo. Now there are a "lot" more markets areas and CCP has done a good job increasing most of them.

I've been trying to do this by hand and without API checks, because I'm still new to Eve's spreadsheet insanity. So far I'm only interested in Tech1 to Meta 4 modules as I haven't got the ISK for handling bigger goods yet. It's somehow doable but excruciatingly slow and tedious.

I haven't yet been able to use EVE Refinery as a direct replacement for this procedure, maybe it's not possible.

Would you mind trading your version of this file for ISK?

While databases add convenience and speed, spending some time working things out by hand gives you a much more intimate understanding of the markets.

I have to agree with RAW here. Working this stuff out gives you an undeniable understanding of the market, something no one can really teach you effectively. The refine/reprocess amounts are available to anyone and are public knowledge..

You can start here - http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/market.php
An example of what you're looking for is here - http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/item.php?type_id=11325
Scroll the bottom of the page look under "Recycle Output"

I'll give you a small tip here which may be a little more complex than you'll want it to be. Make sure you use the entire price of the item and break down each component into their worth. I'll use that 1600mm plate as an example.

Lets assume you pay the "Market Price" (At the top of the page) of 923,293 ISK

Each of the minerals it breaks down into also has a market price. Your first step is to work out it's price according the market price of the minerals. - Which according to Chrukers is - 940,177 ISK. So you could melt it down, and sell the minerals and make a 16,884 ISK profit.

Advance Pricing :-
You should note, this is not required unless you plan on using the minerals to manufacture items.
You need to work out the price of each mineral according to their contribution your overall cost.

To do that, you need to do the following.
[Individual Mineral Market Price] * ( [Total Cost] / [Total Market Value] )

That sounds and looks worse than it really is, here is the Trit part of the 1600mm Plate.
Trit has a market value of 5 ISK.
Your cost was 923,293 ISK
The value of the minerals broken down is 940,177 ISK.

Your formula for Trit would look like this - 5 * ( 923,293 / 940,177 ) = 4.92 (Rounded up)

Your per unit mineral cost if you did the above for each mineral would be:-
Tritanium 4.92 ISK
Pyerite 12.77 ISK
Mexallon 41.25 ISK
Isogen 145.35 ISK
Zydrine 921.16 ISK
Megacyte 2299.95 ISK

There are many ways to do this exact thing, this is the fastest.

I was kidding. I was just vaguely amused that the first time I saw you post on MD for over a year was agreeing with me about something. Good to see you're still around. Just ... let's try not to discuss anything we don't agree on

Check the spread between buy and sell. If it is very narrow, then the fees and taxes may be more expensive than the spread. If you think a market will go up, you can sell above current sell orders.

If you have a use for that money, that will return more than waiting on the market to reach your hopeful sell price, then invest the money into the other venture.

If the money is just going to sit around in your wallet and do nothing, then by all means use sell orders and sell at what you hope will be the sell price in a reasonable time frame.

If someone is updating his BOs regularly in comparatively huge increments (1-10k ISK each, multiple times a day over the past few days), is that a sign of someone trying to manipulate the market longterm in some kind of way?
If so, what might that person be trying to achieve with higher BO prices? Getting rid of a stockpile for a higher price?

People seem really eager to trump the overpriced BOs without much thought.