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Is there a market for tech 3 BPCs?

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Minnie Hitwoman
Scorpion Road Industry
#1 - 2014-06-14 07:04:38 UTC
I'm trying to sell a couple of Loki BPCs, but so far I got no feedback or interested parties. I can see that there are just a couple of Loki BPCs on the contracts and my price (in Sell Orders thread) was the lowest price on contracts plus a discount for bulk purchase. So, theoretically, there should be potential buyers as far as price is concerned.

I haven't had time to do the math on production of Lokis out of those blueprints, so I don't know how are they actually used. Understanding how T3 BPCs are generally used would help a lot in understanding the market for it. It would be great if someone could share some info on this.

- Is the production too profitable for BPCs to be sold on market? That would mean industrialists would have their own BPC printing ops to support their own production lines and are generally not used to look on the market for BPCs, thus the market doesn't exist.

- On the other hand, are profit margins on producing Lokis so low that no one is interested to invest?

- Is my price too high? I've set a price of 35mil for a 3-run BPC, being the lowest one on contracts and a bit over my production costs.
Lord LazyGhost
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2014-06-14 07:44:37 UTC
May be manufacture cost of the ship atm is not makeing any money so not worth it.
Caleb Seremshur
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#3 - 2014-06-16 06:29:45 UTC
Says a lot about the proliferation of T3 hulls doesn't it? Maybe CCP should have introduced some kind of hard cap on the number of T3s in game. Or maybe they should do lots of other things like possibly look at wormholes which are now 7 years without any work done.
Bertrand Prout
Sunday Sessions
#4 - 2014-06-20 18:32:08 UTC
The thing with T3 production is that it takes 1 hour to generate a BPC assuming it doesn't fail. So most of the producers will rather generate their own BPCs for a much lower cost than what's on contracts usually.