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Dominating the trade of a region.
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Darvaleth Sigma
Imperial Security Hegemony
#21 - 2013-04-12 15:38:36 UTC
Halvan Zan wrote:
Oh come on, would anyone reading these forums really be so cruel?


*slowly raises hand*

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Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life!
El 1974
Green Visstick High
#22 - 2013-04-13 18:22:36 UTC
I have a somewhat similar question.
I have managed to more or less monopolize the trade on a few items in a single station. I build stuff and sell it for 10% profit. Nobody else bothers to sell 'my items' in 'my station' for only 10% profit, which allows me to make a nice profit for little work and with zero competition.
Except there is one guy occassionally buying my stuff and then relisting it at 10x cost price. When I put more items up for sale, he starts undercutting me. I keep a small stock so the guy rarely manages to sell even one item at 10x cost price and thus is moslty losing money, but he's doing it with many items on the market, so I asume he doesn't even notice that he is losing money manipulating 'my' item's prices.
If I simply list more items at my usual price he'll be unlikely to change his modus operandi. Sometimes he sells a few items at 10x the usual price and makes a nice profit. The main problem is that whenever he does that there is a chance one of my competitors will notice an opportunity and enter the market as well. It took me more than a year to drive out my competition.
My current strategy is driving the price down to make him suffer losses, but this cuts down my profit as well. And the guy is stubborn and apparantly successfull enough with other items to keep trying.
Maybe I should just send him a list of items I have on stock, telling him he'll lose money trying to manipulate the price of those items. But I'm reluctant to make him any wiser.
Perhaps one of you has a good tip. Killing him is not an option.
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#23 - 2013-04-13 20:27:27 UTC
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Santiago Azurant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2013-04-17 08:50:26 UTC

If its in an NPC station the solution is simple. Start putting those prices up with 30-40% profit. If he buys it all and relists, happy times for you, rinse and repeat. Either he is going to give you a nice chunk of isk or eventually stop trading those items.

And ummm which station?

El 1974 wrote:
I have a somewhat similar question.
I have managed to more or less monopolize the trade on a few items in a single station. I build stuff and sell it for 10% profit. Nobody else bothers to sell 'my items' in 'my station' for only 10% profit, which allows me to make a nice profit for little work and with zero competition.
Except there is one guy occassionally buying my stuff and then relisting it at 10x cost price. When I put more items up for sale, he starts undercutting me. I keep a small stock so the guy rarely manages to sell even one item at 10x cost price and thus is moslty losing money, but he's doing it with many items on the market, so I asume he doesn't even notice that he is losing money manipulating 'my' item's prices.
If I simply list more items at my usual price he'll be unlikely to change his modus operandi. Sometimes he sells a few items at 10x the usual price and makes a nice profit. The main problem is that whenever he does that there is a chance one of my competitors will notice an opportunity and enter the market as well. It took me more than a year to drive out my competition.
My current strategy is driving the price down to make him suffer losses, but this cuts down my profit as well. And the guy is stubborn and apparantly successfull enough with other items to keep trying.
Maybe I should just send him a list of items I have on stock, telling him he'll lose money trying to manipulate the price of those items. But I'm reluctant to make him any wiser.
Perhaps one of you has a good tip. Killing him is not an option.
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