Science & Industry

I'm just starting to train in Industry. I've been running missions a lot lately, and have collected a fairly impressive stash of COSMOS storyline BPC's. I find it strange that there are so few storyline modules on the market, and such an abundance of BPC's. Those BPC's by the way are plentiful on the market, and dispite the abundance are not selling. This would indicate to me that they are very overpriced. Many of the required components are also quite overpriced, considering Supply & Demand.
The special skillbook is even more overpriced. What I would like to know is why are these items so rediculously overpriced considering that there doesn't seem to be much of a supply of the manufactured modules on the market. These modules do not have the stat bonuses of comparable deadspace, officer, or in many cases even Faction mods. It looks like a totally insane market situation. The Risk/Reward for gathering the needed components is also out of balance. I was considering manufacturing the BPC's I have gathered, but taking all these factors into consideration, it may be better just to trash them and move on. Am I wrong?

the only advantage of most storyline modules is that they have significantly lower fitting requirements than there t1 or t2 counterparts. stats are generally similar to meta 2-3 of the same module but much lower fitting requirements.

They are a niche item for very tight fits and not in high demand. Add to that the fact they need rare materials to build and in some cased rare skillbooks to use they are pretty much useless. I have a hugh stack of them from running COSMOS missions on two toons. they are just sitting in a hanger near the mission agents I got them from collecting dust. Not worth getting the mats required to build them, not even worth moving them to Jita to sell the BPC's.
They need to either remove the special mats required in manufacturing, or just have the modules be given instead of the BPC's. these items are not near valuable enough for the effort currently involved in manufacturing them.

Some of the large storyline guns would be nice paired with the new BC's as it would leave you much more room for tank or damage mods, but still not worth the effort currently required.

Part of the reason that they are so expensive is that because they are COSMOS missions, you can only do them once, and some folks think that means that the items are special. Or they look at the price of the skill book and think they must be special for that reason.

I've been buying the BPCs that I can afford and stockpiling them until I can get around to making them. All the ones I make will end up going to corp members, so I don't plan on selling the results.