Market Discussions

It's been a while, but here comes another update:

Things are going great. I switched characters around a bit which cost me a non-insignificant amount of broker tax, but made my life a bit easier by requiring less traveling around for other things.

Station A:

This one has basically turned into Region A. Things are behaving like i expected. I have a basket of ~25 items that i'm selling in one station per Constellation. I'm suffering a bit here from not being able to update my orders from one central place, but training will fix that sooner than later. Approximately 10-20% of my orders are undercut after about 24 hours.

I'm now finishing Wholesale V on the character, the additional orders from Tycoon will be used to seed the last constellation and to fill some holes i found in the local minihub. Turns out there are a few surprisingly popular items that are surprisingly hard to find in many places. Let's just say that people love to pimp ships that don't die very often.

Jita Price of Items on the market: ~3b ISK
Active Tradeorders: ~125
Sellorders priced at: ~5
Profit in the last 30 days: 700m. (not representative, added new orders over the course of the month)



Station B:

Remains a steady moneymaker. I have hit my orderlimit on this Tycoon IV character and started training another one to seed more things. I'm also learning more and more about my competition. The guys don't really care about items. They update some orders, but only once every 2-3 weeks. But they do care about ships which they update every friday in RUtz. Good thing i'm online in EUtz on these days :D

Jita Price of items on the market: ~6b ISK
Active Tradeorders: ~270
Sellorders priced at: 9.5b
Profit in the last 30 days: 2b ISK

Station C:

Will be abandoned for now. Even though things sell better than Station B. However, competition is waaay too active in UStz. They'll basically undercut my orders at around midnight every day, which is approximately one hour after my usual bedtime during the week. That means my stuff only sells about 4 hours/day. That's not good enough, even if it's about 1/3 of the profit i make in Station B.

I haven't been able to scout for an alternative yet, but will do so asap.

Meta:

I'm thinking about producing locally for Station B. I have one character that can invent and build everything. I know very well that i won't make more money than i would if i were doing it for jita. However, my usual production on this character costs me a lot of freighter time and takes lots of 0.01 isking to sell. Producing locally would cut down on freightering and basically eliminate the 0.01isking.

I guess i'll run a bunch of numbers through my head and various tools and spreadsheets first :)