Market Discussions

I would assume very few characters have been created solely from injecting SP because it's more than twice as expensive as normal training when paying for an account with PLEX (which weren't always this expensive).

People selling characters often want the ISK as soon as possible and sell to resellers, who won't be paying an amount they can't quickly make a profit on.

Ah, so the character prices are based on (cost of a PLEX / number of SP trained in 30 days)

That makes sense, although I would have thought the convenience of a ready to go character was worth something.

Thanks

Badly trained characters, just a week or two before extractors were released, could be found selling for half of the amount that extracting them now would make you. I'm surprised injectors are still so high.

Edit: Characters trained in certain ways can still fetch a premium, as they always have.

What their SP would be worth when stripped establishes a minimum value for the character - the character is always "worth" that because you could liquidate them into that much money. Conversely, a character on the bazaar will never fetch the total injection price for their SP because if you had that amount of money you could put the SP exactly where you wanted them (and avoid any stupid names and unfortunate history, to say nothing of it being much easier to buy injectors than to keep checking the bazaar for a character with the skillset you want).

My guess - emphasise "guess" - is that injectors have rather cut the knees off demand in the character bazaar. Right now there's an oversupply as people with characters to sell are trying to get at least a bit more cash for them than stripping and biomassing them would, but most of the demand is off buying injectors.

Relatively low SP characters aren't that viable to sell via the bazaar because of the transfer fee - might as well strip the SP. Very high SP characters will almost certainly have a lot of SP the buyer doesn't care about. There might, in future, be a "sweet spot" for characters whose SP are entirely relevant to one in-game activity who can fetch higher prices per SP on the character bazaar - but right now the entire SP market is flailing about too much.