EVE General Discussion

eh?
EDIT: Collectors Edition does raise one question for me though. How come it's €150, but it's also $150? Why would anyone pay in anything other than dollar since it saves you $40?
And where my wonderful £?

I thinkf what Gogela is on about is that you are better off selling Promopacks than PLEX if you want to convert $ to ISK.

This ^

US edition doesn't include tax.

It looks like the stuff I got so far from the collectors ed my wife bought me can be sold via contract at the very least. So there is nothing preventing you from buying the Genolution implants just like with plex. The rest of it hardly seems pay to win as the destroyer is an egg shell armed with a hammer. (Not a sledge hammer just a hammer.) The BPC is for a BC everyone got any way and is readily available on the market.

But the more promo packs that sell the less your return on the items. That whole supply/demand thing.

I agree. I am planning on getting all 8 sleeves, but decided against dropping 12B ISK on a full set when they came out since CCP has mentioned that they are planning on eventually releasing them via other means. The prices since the promo pack have already fallen, and almost none have sold over 1B since then with most of the Jita buy order prices closer to 700m.

I wouldn't be surprised if implants 3 and 4 are eventually released as a gift as well. I noticed that I have more implant 1 and 2 than accounts. Were they given as Christmas and 10 year gifts or did they appear mysteriously by other means?

You should probably sell the preorder bonus items now if you are buying the promo set for ISK. I do agree with the initial statement though and think that the CE is a great deal if you normally buy PLEX for ISK, and a mediocre deal if not. I'm sure the Golden Pod will sell for a decent amount of ISK as well. If you can get 3-4 PLEX worth of ISK from the in game goods the challenge of eBaying the physical items for $80 (minus any items you would like to keep) should be possible.

I personally would have paid about $100 for the three items that I am interested in (book, CD and USB hub) and don't mind spending the extra $50 for a bunch of random stuff. The problem is that very few people are buying this set for every item (especially with the non-Eve boardgame, new account key and DUST codes) and are having a hard time justifying spending $150 for what they want. As ridiculous as it sounds people are making such a big deal about these items I almost believe that the set would sell better at the same price without them included and certainly if the price would be shaved by a mere $20 or so. I believe that all the individual components of the CE will be worth $150, although most people will not want all of the components, so selling off or sharing a CE might be a smart move.