Market Discussions

Best way to start out, would be to place Regional buy orders on high volume items - such as tech 2 modules and ships. Then, just sell them exactly where they are.

Don't worry about people not buying it, because they will. There are lots of people flying around from system to system. That's why it has to be commonly used tech 2 modules, ships, or the more expensive commonly used tech 1 modules. You may have some stuff that would take a long time to sell. But even if they are not sold, the profit that you've already made is more than enough to cover it.

Then, pull up the Star Map, and filter systems based on "Number of pilots jumped in the last hour, or last 24 hours" or something along those lines. You want to spot all the systems with high traffic. Then buy in Jita, and sell in that system.

Also, place Regional buy orders for minerals, but make sure you set a minimum quantity. Then, sell the minerals exactly where they are. And place Regional buy orders for Isotopes with minimum quantity, and sell the Isotopes exactly where they are. Across all regions.

If the batch of Minerals / Isotopes is large enough, contract it to Red Frog (or whoever the popular freight service is right now), and haul it the nearest hub. Sell it to buy orders there.

If someone sells you a huge batch of minerals / isotopes in low sec, use your own jump freighter to move it.

To minimize the chance of getting ganked, make sure your Jump Freighter Alt is in NPC corp. If there is Faction Warfare going on against your faction, stay away from those systems.

You want to make it where, if your opponent ganks you, they will lose a similar amount of ISK to Concorde. So take this into consideration when you decide how much cargo to carry.

That's why you use Hauling service whenever possible (plus you don't have time to do all that hauling). Only use Jump Freighter for that 1 jump to get your stuff out of low sec. When your stuff is in High Sec, contract it to a hauling service or use a regular freighter. If you freight your own stuff, limit your cargo so it's not worth it for people to gank you.

I mean just place a sell order, in the exact same location that you bought the item. Don't need to move it.

Buy something
Sell something
???
Profit!!

This is why I outsource hauling.

Return isn't worth the risk as you just found out, and there's plenty of useful idiots that will do it for me. Not to mention, training Contracting to 4 or even 5 is quicker than learning to fly a Charon.

Good topic, OP. Thanks for posting.