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

3 (21.4%)

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

[Muz]

You can just cancel them at no loss, if you want to switch to something else, IIRC.

[LoSboccacc]

no material loss
money spent goes pooof and increase the single item cost

(I know, this already happened three times, now I'm not canceling the coal for this reason)

[Supercharazad]

BallC applied for a position with the code Bay12. However, isn't he that guy that did a pile of scams and things?


Also, in your application, state the code (bay12) and answer the following questions in your resume:


What does HFS stand for?
Who is Urist, and what is she famous for?
What do you do when the carp are in a pond with you?



This ensures we get only people who are definitely from here (or people who worked so hard to fool us they deserve it anyway).

[LoSboccacc]

not within the auto union brand

I don't really care what people do with their own stuff, as long as nothing bad is done as auto union employee and nothing (fines, jail, whatever) could affect other players. the union before the profit, is the principle.

[BallC420]

BallC applied for a position with the code Bay12. However, isn't he that guy that did a pile of scams and things?

Pile of scams? WTF are you talking about?

[BallC420]

In other news, I've decided to stop growing my retail empire at 15 companies to defer the Auto market to this community effort.

[BallC420]

FYI, our retail sales might go in the shitter over the next day or so. Guy on IRC just said he stocked his 20k m^2 worth of car dealerships full of items.

[Lord Allagon]

Reapplied.

[LoSboccacc]

FYI, I saw that we sold a ton of car bodies for really cheap in the last 12 hours and it looks like our pricing strategy needed a little adjustment so we don't burn through all our in-house produced goods too quickly.

Previously, retail pricing was set to the greater of 2x cost or 4x Q-adjusted value. I've tweaked it to 8x Q-adjusted value which should reduce the burn rate on stuff we make in-house and hopefully give the production folks time from when it rolls off the line to actually get it made into more finished products.

We have a competitor now. Let's restore the lazy 2x formula, we're moving to few money to grow.

[BallC420]

FYI, I saw that we sold a ton of car bodies for really cheap in the last 12 hours and it looks like our pricing strategy needed a little adjustment so we don't burn through all our in-house produced goods too quickly.

Previously, retail pricing was set to the greater of 2x cost or 4x Q-adjusted value. I've tweaked it to 8x Q-adjusted value which should reduce the burn rate on stuff we make in-house and hopefully give the production folks time from when it rolls off the line to actually get it made into more finished products.

We have a competitor now. Let's restore the lazy 2x formula, we're moving to few money to grow.

Done. We are back to the original "modified" lazy 2x (i.e. greater of 2x cost or 4x Q-adjusted value). That was pricing things low enough that we were moving inventory at a good clip.

[LoSboccacc]

Uhm. What are we doing with those millions in overpriced cattle?

[BallC420]

Uhm. What are we doing with those millions in overpriced cattle?

Weird. I see it. Checked the logs on the bot (pasted below) and everything looks kosher there (although it did time out that tick). Log is pasted below. The purchases were very close together so it was some type of bot or script though. My bot runs at 1 minute after tick (:01, :16, :31, :46) and gets to Auto Union doing purchases within 40 seconds or so of launching (see B2B purchase logs for Wheels). These were done at :23/:24 after the hour. Whole chickens, pork chop, wine, cattle, and batter -- some of those aren't even retail goods so I'm pretty sure this wasn't the restocking bot.

Did we hire anyone new recently? or did someone derp and buy stuff while switched to the wrong company?

I don't have any private companies left or else I'd buy them to get them out of our warehouse. I'll list them out on B2B for what we paid for them while we try to sort this out.

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Setting active firm to 4705...
Sucessfully set active firm to 4705 - 'Auto Union Inc.'
Retrieving retail data for firm 4705 - Auto Union Inc.
Retrieving data for Store 5205
Retrieving data for Store 6416
Retrieving data for Store 6417
Retrieving import market listings for 1 store types
Retrieving B2B market listings for 1 store types
Motorcycle Body - Buying 2 from Import - Q40 for $62,581.17 (Ratio: 15.65 - Profit: $21,665.01)
Seats - Buying 15 from Import - Q40 for $4,078.97 (Ratio: 13.60 - Profit: $10,433.97)
SUV - Buying 3 from Import - Q40 for $108,331.47 (Ratio: 9.03 - Profit: $31,174.38)
SUV Body - Buying 3 from Import - Q40 for $104,516.57 (Ratio: 14.93 - Profit: $24,375.23)
Truck - Buying 3 from Import - Q40 for $129,721.98 (Ratio: 9.27 - Profit: $30,230.72)
Truck Body - Buying 1 from Import - Q40 for $139,541.23 (Ratio: 16.42 - Profit: $21,752.94)
Van - Buying 1 from Import - Q40 for $168,241.01 (Ratio: 12.46 - Profit: $27,336.82)
Failed to run retail management for firm 4705! Error: System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote server ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 72.251.211.238:80
Finished in 00:01:51.0438763

[Carcanken]

Uhm. What are we doing with those millions in overpriced cattle?

Or the jet some idiot bought?

[LoSboccacc]

Uhm. What are we doing with those millions in overpriced cattle?

Or the jet some idiot bought?

a jet? I don't see that in the history or in the warehouse, but seriously, enough trolling

[BallC420]

WOOHOO! New milestone for us!

Store Sales   $300 M