EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hek and Rens are nearby market hubs.

Tank your hauling ship, both hek and wrens are prime locations to get shot in the face.

You can right click any item and view market details to see what it is selling for in your local area. You may need to adjust the market options to see the entire region. The lower pane in the market window shows buy orders - people are willing to buy your goods immediately at that price. If a buy order is green you can sell to it from your current station - no travel required.

Out of game tools like https://eve-central.com/ will show you the entire market so you can see if the price offered locally is reasonable or if you should haul the goods to another station for a better price.

You can earn more by creating sell orders but these take time to fill and may require trade skills depending on how much stuff you have.

You also have the option to multi-sell - copy everything you have into the sell window at once. At a trade hub like Hek or Rens, most of it will sell instantly and the leftovers will be returned to your hangar. This is fast but you will probably be paid below market prices for most of your product - the people who put up the buy orders will make most of the profit.

Contact Ladaika of Tulip Factory - she will buy everything you have at Jita prices, wherever it may be. An excellent service!

The majority of the reprocessing skills apply to ORE and ICE, not to modules. There's only one skill that applies to modules: Scrapmetal Processing, and it gives 2% per level up to 10% if you train it to 5. 10% of the base reprocessing yield in high-sec stations, which is 50%, so actually only 5% of the actual minerals you would get. And the skill has very high skill prerequisites, requires 3 other skills at V and another one at IV before you can even train it.

Basically, Scrapmetal Processing is not worth training. If you train it, you gain 4%, maybe 5% max. I would guess that most people don't train that skill, or if they do it's not a high priority.

On the other hand, if you don't reprocess the junk, you're hauling 3 - 4 extra full loads through the CODE. gauntlet to get to the market, where you get, what, 5,000 ISK - 20,000 isk for your efforts? It's not worth the TIME, or the risk to your ship.

Minerals are valuable, and it's very likely that manufacturers will have region-wide buy orders for minerals. Meaning you can just sell in the station where you are. Junk loot, nobody wants it. The guy who buys the junk loot from you, only does it to reprocess it and sell the minerals for profit. Meaning that the prices you see for junk loot are worse than what you'd get for the minerals, even with the reprocessing loss.

Learn this concept; the value of any item is, ultimately, based on what can realistically be done with it. The only thing that can be done with junk is to reprocess it, so nobody will buy it from you at whatever "full" value you imagine. Another example of this is your character: the value of a character is what people can get by sucking all the skills out and selling the injectors. Nobody cares about how well you've "nurtured" your character or whatever.

So, TLDR: I know you don't have the skill, and yet it's still probably the best action to reprocess the junk and sell the minerals.

Check it out yourself. You can pretend-reprocess by right-clicking, choosing "reprocess this item," looking at the totals that are displayed and the value of the minerals on the market, then canceling the reprocess window. It's got an "Are you sure?", don't worry. Compare to the offered prices for the full item on the market. Pick whichever option you feel is best.