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How can I speed up pickup runs?
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Coffee Bean
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2013-12-28 11:55:07 UTC
I have some items which I purchased via a buy order that can be 8 jumps apart -- how can I speed the process of picking these items up? I've been sat here for over an an hour and I think I've only been to 4 places, I have around 20 on my list -- it's going to take forever!

Thanks

CB
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#2 - 2013-12-28 12:37:59 UTC
Public courier contracts.

Let useful idiots do it for you.

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Coffee Bean
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2013-12-28 12:39:20 UTC
Barely worth it with Hobgoblins and mining lasers I'm buying at the moment -- barely making any profit as it is lol :(
Rhivre
TarNec
Invisible Exchequer
#4 - 2013-12-28 16:27:29 UTC
Wait until the piles are big enough, or relist them where they are, or take a fast ship round

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flakeys
Doomheim
#5 - 2013-12-28 17:10:48 UTC
I used to run regional orders in 3 or 4 regions.I only picked up those big enough to keep the iskflow going to manage my buy orders and all the rest i picked up when i closed all my regional orders about 4 months later.


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Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#6 - 2013-12-28 22:58:01 UTC
Coffee Bean wrote:
Barely worth it with Hobgoblins and mining lasers I'm buying at the moment -- barely making any profit as it is lol :(



Then sell them where they are. You can get a large markup on those items from the rare person that wants them right where they are.

If you do haul them, it's cheaper to contract the hauling to a useful idiot than to invest your precious time doing it.

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Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#7 - 2013-12-29 14:30:39 UTC
Coffee Bean wrote:
I've been sat here for over an an hour and I think I've only been to 4 places,


You ARE flying manually and not on autopilot, right?

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X ATM092
The Hatchery
RAZOR Alliance
#8 - 2013-12-29 14:37:38 UTC
Coffee Bean wrote:
Barely worth it with Hobgoblins and mining lasers I'm buying at the moment -- barely making any profit as it is lol :(

So you've identified that the job isn't worth doing, not even by an underpaid idiot, and you want to learn more about doing it yourself?
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#9 - 2013-12-30 03:31:24 UTC
Coffee Bean wrote:
I have some items which I purchased via a buy order that can be 8 jumps apart -- how can I speed the process of picking these items up? I've been sat here for over an an hour and I think I've only been to 4 places, I have around 20 on my list -- it's going to take forever!

Thanks

CB


You might want to start your trading career by localizing your purchases to a mission hub system and perhaps a 1 system radius from said hub.

At which point you can spend minimal time scooping up your purchases, in a small area with heavy pilot activity, and then you can spend more time flipping it for better profits in a major trade hub. Rinse, repeat.

I suggest this because the situation you've described thus far is right up there with knee-capping yourself.

Enjoy.

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Tapticc Sinulf
Frontier Mooners
Incorporeal Conglomerate Society
#10 - 2013-12-31 13:24:53 UTC
Little tip which might help - once you've added your waypoints, click the A and choose Optimise Route to reduce number of jumps to a minimum