EVE General Discussion

Shoot... I'll throw in the towel...


WTS Oh like lets say between 1M & 100M SP toon, pristine reputation. Community awareness. Active in player made content....

for... oh...ummm....

SIXTY BILLION DOUBLE DOLLARS! (Or a kidney, blood type AB- assuming that organ trading is kosher with CCP on forums, please I need this kidney.)

In principle yes, but other factors also apply. Like how focused the character is skilled. If you want to sell it as a production char for example, combat skills usually don't add much to its worth and of course the usual supply and demand rules apply too.

Who are you to dictate what others should think on how much their toon is worth. There is a consensus on prices, but that does not mean all have to follow it.

If that Char does not sell, that's their problem.

That site estimated my character with perfect trading and perfect PI skills AND some Hauling and support skills at 2 billion.

Sold it for 6.

And of course, the person asking wayyyyy too much always parrots the same stupid line "No wasted skills"...

Then you look and see many wasted skills...

WTB T2 siege and triage archon and thanatos pilot, perfect supports, no wasted SP budget 10-12 B don't post if over this budget thanks

dude, mashie... 100B is still just... no

200, just because that figure is one you can't refuse. anything less is...

Gemblog hasn't been updated in years.

Lets just get to real reason why you are posting this... your character trading business is going slow lately and you seeing all those chars you can't resell for profit makes you sad.

Don't try to lecture character traders about pricing using that pile of poop website. Most of the time it just amuses us. We can price characters at whatever we want given that we set the prices. Trust me, they will sell - sometimes at a bil per SP if they are focused enough. If people are wealthy enough to buy alts to stick into supers or for specific jobs, they expect a focused skillsheet without tons of waste even if it means paying a premium. Demand is set by the buyers, not the sellers, and it's wealthy buyers pricing scrub lowballers out of the market.

There is indeed a 'conspiracy' to raise prices - pretty much everyone with a brain has increased their focused alt prices by 20-30% in the last few months to mirror plex increases. The horreur. It is always a push to force through a new price ceiling because character values lag behind plex prices, but fortunately dedicated traders are patient and wealthy enough to slowsell whilst prices shift.

The 30-90m sp firesale range is normally where the best deals appear, but there buyers are competing with resellers who know at a glance what characters are worth and ninja the underpriced alts almost as soon as they are listed. As Epeen remarked though, there are quite a lot of those types available at the moment, but to get one you're going to need to put in a few days scouring the forums and be quick off the mark. Guess what - it's a market - some people are better at it than others. If you don't like it, don't play in it.