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Better to find or start a 10-15% margin market for item
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Drone Bei
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2016-03-21 13:42:44 UTC
I'm still relatively new at station trading (1.5 bil assets) but I've been having pretty good succss finding high margin items and 0.01 isking against 2-4 competitors. I know that long term this won't work because my volume will need to increase and the items I sell right now don't have a huge demand.

So if I start looking at finding ways to sell in the 10-15 markup range to get more consistent sales on higher velocity items, should I look to establish an item with that markup or look for items that are already at that margin and stable?

I would think that finding an item and slowly driving the margin from 30-40% with higher competition of 0.01 iskers to my target margin would be better as I would be establishing a new market item and pushing out those who only wanted the big margins. Something like increasing my buy and decreasing my sell by 1000.01 isk each time to start undercutting and pushing people out.

Did you find this strategy more useful when you transitioned to higher velocity and more consistent sales or did you just look for those items already at a decent margin but which had good volume?
Cista2
EVE Museum
#2 - 2016-03-21 15:09:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Cista2
I and many others find that margin cutting method very useful.

Be aware btw, that broker fees are getting a big raise when the citadel expansion comes at the end of the month (I think). It will mean we will all encounter losses more often when playing the market swings hoping for those small profits.

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