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I'm just here to report on my latest adventure as the guy who lowballs buy orders.  I didn't go as low as the lowest buys on strontium clathrates, only sinking to 200.6 isk per unit which is less than one-tenth the actual value, but there are apparently three pilots that have sold me 164 units at that price.  Wacky!

Um...what are you buying?

POS reinforced-mode fuel. It usually goes for about 2k/unit, I think.

I'm getting Mezz up to speed on ice refining, so we can do some of that in about 2 weeks.

Strontium clathrates, pretty much on a whim since I am stockpiling it already from my ice mining ops.  It does have the benefit of being a commodity with actual player value, unlike frozen plant seeds.  Also note that I get one unit of strontium clathrates per ice chunk.  It would take me at least 11 hours to mine 164,000m³ of ice with my current setup.


We can already refine ice at 100% efficiency, if I am part of we.  My block right now is the tax, which I am hoping to take care of a little bit by running missions for the RSS agent.  My next jump will be to get in the cockpit of that Mackinaw I have in dry dock, first week of November if I stay on track.

Ahh right good. Whats the current tax rate? And what station is that from? I'll see if I can get a better one.

I'm running out of the RSS station in Aakari.  It's a fraction below 5% due to some RSS missions I ran in ages past.

If it is an RSS station, Antolin can probably get a good deal. They LURV him. I think my corp standing is almost 6.

If you can refine ice with no waste, I'll just stockpile for you.

I brought my thorax over last night, intending to run the lv1 agent there.  For faction, yes, but also to take a break from ice mining.

Heh, I'm doing the same thing with morphite. I'm betting on a price increase after Kali. Margin won't be nearly as good but hopefully the profit will be pretty decent.

Just go really, ludicrously low.  If I regret anything, it's not placing the order at 100 per instead of 200.  Or maybe 20.  I have even more now, and it's all in highsec.  /boggle

Jita has other, competing orders. There is a floor. Plus, I've filled 2/3 of my buy order already.

There are a lot of people who mine (including macro-mining) ice in high-sec for the Isotopes (POS and capital ship jump fuel).  This produces a tiny amount of Strontium, which is bulky and not very high value, volume-wise.  So they'll dump it for whatever they can get rather than bother moving it to a better market.

--Dave

You are right, of course.  I wouldn't try this with nitrogen isotopes, which seem to be on the low side of 200 right now.  I can move a higher volume of isotopes that I mine myself for more profit than if I were to try pure trading.