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Let's focus in cars, trucks, finished stuff only; be a realtailer!

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Keep the current inventory mix, it has worked fine til now!

3 (21.4%)

Become a tuning car shop, add engines and chip to stores

2 (14.3%)

Stay hungry, stay gredish: sell everything that we produce in the whole vehicle chain to keep surplus at minimum

6 (42.9%)

Total Members Voted: 11

[GreatJustice]

Electricity is a pretty decent side market. I have a 150sqm plant and I can generally make a decent profit from it alone with enough excess to power everything else for ages.

Also, the electricity average is around 9-10 cents, which is a profit of around 1.8 (depending on coal/natural gas costs) per unit. It often peaks at 15c, which is quite good.

[Muz]

Well, they're too easy to get from anyone, you could just strike a B12 deal with anyone around here if you need to get it for a few cents below market price. I'd rather the spot get used for rarer resources, like high Q steel, which we'd need for good cars anyway.

[LoSboccacc]

we still have two spot free 

[MarcAFK]

My size 10 power plant is still supplying my rather large factories pretty well, i just set it for 24 hours and forget it.
My well however is rather huge and i get it to make gas while its idle for a fairly small profit.
Also i just noticed how much money there is to be made from imports, sure at the price you need to sell things for you can only get rid of maybe 6 a day, but if we aren't producing trucks/vans then it's a good investment...
*fakeedit* huh, i just noticed one of the other sales managers had teh same idea
Edit: I've been modifying the sales price for all our cars/etc based on how much we're selling a tick.
Trying to reach a price where our current inventory of each item is selling at a rate that'll take 24 hours to be fully sold.
Just let me know if this is acceptable, I know it's kinda hard to tell with this industry because at this current level you'll sell a car every couple of ticks and they may seem overpriced, but it should maximise profit.

[Muz]

One trick I use is to use imports to anchor the price. Like, I find a something Q15 at $10000 on imports. Sell it for $18000. Then I manufacture my own Q4 something, and sell it at $8500. When someone goes on B2B, it looks like an awesome deal. Even when they later look at imports, it seems reasonable, even though someone wouldn't really want to buy a $8500 low Q something when there's already good stuff on the market.

[GreatJustice]

I can sell my electricity at 0.08 to Union since my plant is huge, which is a bit below market price usually but still makes me a profit, and in turn that means we can get rid of the power plant altogether.

[LoSboccacc]

we have our own at 0.05 with coal leftowers from steel production 

[Chattox]

Heh, not sure if you're aware, but there are people on the EoS forum bitching about this company for how successful it's gotten in such a short time

[LoSboccacc]

I know I know.

they are all up crying but I don't want to get into an agument with them, it's worthless.

[Chattox]

Out of interest, how did you get such high quality research?

[LoSboccacc]

because if you have a really nice idea to try some new feature out to the fullest you tend to get noticed

and rewarded 

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but mostly because we had some useful bug reports up

[Chattox]

Hah, fair enough

[MarcAFK]

My own Mining company is producing electricity and water at .o4 each, which is nice, but it's a shame the previous ceo somehow ended up with 25million water at .5 cost in the warehouse... wtf? :s

[Muz]

Out of interest, how did you get such high quality research?

Strange moods.

[Supercharazad]

Hey...can I have a raise?