Xanil
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Posted - 2008.11.06 13:10:00 -
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Originally by: Sysion
Originally by: Aluka 7th - Jita is not the place to sell stuff, its place to buy stuff for resale in other regions. Only benefit of Jita is that you can sell large quantities very fast. But you do that for very low profit and have to compete with other sellers that undercut your price (lower their sale price under yours for 0.01ISK)
This always seems like one of those myths that everyone accepts without actually looking at.
Jita is not necessarily where you'll find people selling at the lowest price. I am currently selling several items for greater profit AND volume in Jita than in other regions. There is one item I'm selling at decent volume in Jita where I am the only person selling it, and have been for the past week and a half. There is one item, until recently, that I was selling in Jita for 2x what I was selling it in Amarr. It only changed because everyone was sold out in Amarr, so I put up more at a price over Jita and set a new baseline price. There is even another where I only need to adjust its price ever few days.
Additionally, I don't always get the negative of "lower profit, higher volume". People neglect the importance of time. Is the goal of manufacturing/trading in Eve to maintain the highest profit margin, or to make the most money? Say person A makes a 20% margin, but sells 10 items a day, and person B has a 15% margin, but sells 20 items per day. After a month, who has done better? Sure person A can be proud of their 20% margin, but over the same span of time, person B is going to come out of it with a bigger wallet.
Well maybe you can make more profit by selling large quantities cheap but what you dont understand is that - you end up putting more work into it as well. Take that person A mines 1hr for 1mil Trit and person B mines 2hrs for 2mil Trit. Now if person A just spams markets with his Trit for 3k/each and is able to sell the Trit with very cheap price he ends up earning 6mil isk. On the other hand, if the person B has multiple items in store and he analyzes the market and puts his trit for sale when the price is high he ends up getting bettere work/isk ratio than person A. In absurd, think of a person working 24/7 spamming markets with cheap prices making same money as other guy is doing in few hours/day playtime :D
I have never supported the quantity selling, whereas I enjoy my quality time :D
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