Market Discussions

So, one of my corp. members offered to sell me anything he doesn't want/need anymore, pretty much permanently. He HATES trade hubs, he hates dealing with buy/sell orders and anything of the like. So, i made a deal with him to buy all his stuff below jita price so i could still make a profit in jita. Jita is 32 jumps away from our HQ. How far below Jita price should i buy his stuff for so i can still make a profit would be fair and reasonable? I've no idea what would be fair.

Figure out your hauling costs. Figure out a profit percentage you're both happy with, and do the math.

He's your corpmate. Just ask him how much he feels you should make on the deal.

Offer to move and sell the items. After you sell them tell him you are keeping the isk and he has been scammed.

I would suggest brokering an agreement where by you sell the goods then take a cut for doing the work or work on a % of Jita buy with him receiving say 80% and you take what ever you make over that (this way you can sell directly to buy orders if needed to ensure quick turnaround on stuff / still make some profit).

Under no circumstances would I pay upfront for the stuff, if he can't be asked to sell it it could be that its pretty worthless ..in the grand scheme of things.

Also, for 32 jumps he would have to produce 10,000's m3 for me to consider such a thing especially if its just random loot / junk / salvage blah blah.

You want a situation that's easy and quick to get the ISK for both of you for it to work.

Fly safe. o7

Sometimes the best scams avoid deception. The trust of a useful idiot is worth a lot of ISK (assuming you are accurate and that the idiot is indeed useful, if not, you are the idiot).

Just pay them 35% of Jita price and never tell them you are scamming. Sure you are losing 35% of possible profit, but you might stand to make a lot more long term.

Also, Jita may not be your closest hub. Consider the others.

This comes down to the question - what is produced locally and what is consumed locally?

If you are in an area of lowsec with lots of exploration and PVE activity, no major wars and little/no capital ship activity, and the area is dangerous enough that people don't want to fly around in deadspace fits or in Hulks, you'd find something like this:

Produced locally in excess:
Meta 8 and higher modules (deadspace) other than cheap propulsion mods
Meta 4 items that are not used much in small gang PVP (eg sensor dampeners, active armor hardeners, remote shield transfer modules)
Tech 1 salvage
Tech 2
Meta 3-4 mining equipment

Consumed locally in excess:
Ship hulls under 250m ISK, particularly ABCs, t1 cruisers, HACs, AFs and (if there's some capital activity) hictors. The latter may be over 300m locally.
High quality ammunition (faction and tech 2)
Deadspace propulsion mods that are at the cheaper end of the spectrum (B-type 1MN AB, etc)
Tech 2 drones and guns
High quality cheap tackle equipment (meta 4 warp scrams, tech 2 webs, and whatever the best long point is)
3-point warp scramblers (faction or better)
Armor plates
Cap booster charges, particularly faction ones
Minerals in general (unless the area has quiet systems where people can mine out entire grav sites in relative safety)

Have your friend assign all of the assets to me. I will arrange transport and sales. I will share with you 90% of what the net profit is for finding this deal.

Personally, I do a rough middle between buyorders and sell orders.