Market Discussions

Stop selling it at a loss. Seriously L2Math

If you're producing it from the ground up in high sec you'd be better off just selling your mechanical parts, chiral structures, and toxic metals without bothering with consumer electronics and robo.

Their loss is somebody else's gain. Might as well be mine.

Then they're still losing money by running their factories, as in they could be making more not using their factories

I agree with this person.

Also consider some people use PI as passive income, which tends to use methods that require the least amount of effort which disregards efficiency.

The number used for tax calculations (arguably the floor) for P3 is 70K. According to Eve Central the cheapest Jita sell order in the last 24 hours is 75899.

Possibly a bit rubbish but not quite justifying a learn2math.

I'd guess it's just short term speculators cashing in. Robotics were around 40k not that long ago.

lot of people has quit robotics manufacturing for lack of profit
they need money for new type of investment
guys cash out their stockpile
other guys look at dropping price
this guys **** their pant and sell too
price drop more
then lot more people quit robotics manufacturing for lack of profit
and they need money for new type of investment too
other guys cash out their stockpile
other other guys look at dropping price
this guys **** their pant even more and sell too
price drop more
we are here
repeat until the offer will be less and price will rize again, or some smart guys put giant buy order

lot of people try to cash out putting sell orders of 0.1 isk higher then buy orders, good guys who try to not mess with the market, it kinda work

I think you'll find that the sell orders which are 0.01 above buy orders are the result of someone selling more units to buy orders than number of units the buy order was for, i.e. I have a buy order of 10000 units, someone dumps 12000 into me, 2000 is left on the market as a sell order.

In High sec it's more than a default it's a constant. (I think the word default normally applies where a setting is adjustable). 7k to export one unit of P3. And Robotics can be produced from a single planet although it would be a horribly inefficient way to do PI. (A more realistic set up might include importing P2s, 20 P2s per 3 Robotics).

In other words if you don't care about your time or the efficiency of your PI setup it's possible to produce Robotics so that you spend 7k on High sec tax and take 63k as profit.

Player-owned customs office have a default setting of 5% but very few people will use that. I set mine to 7.5%. Free is also possible and of course in my case paying tax simply moves money from one of my personal wallet to the corp wallet (from which I can take it back out again).

Smart producers will make P3 from P1, because it's often about 10-15% cheaper then making it from P2 due to the new tariffs.