Interplanetary Trading Opportunity - Boost Economy

Hello :)

My name is Rachel "MsPudding" Hawkins... And I am from the planet Calypso. You can just call me MsPudding for short! ;)

First off, this might be better suited in the economy discussion rather than the general -- but I didn't know how much traffic it would get there and if anyone would see it :/ I'm sorry for placing it in general, I just wanted the most people to see it and give me feedback on my idea.

I'm sure this has been done before, and I'm not sure if someone is currently doing it -- but I would like to offer my services of traveling to Next Island and purchasing various Ores and EnMatters from the soc's there and then returning to Calypso to sell and dispense them. It can be very costly to travel from planet to planet, and it isn't at all economically feasable to have someone from each social group from your planet traveling to Calypso and back, when they have to pay a 40 PED fee to go there, and another 40 PED fee to come back.

So what I am interested in knowing are a few things...

Would you be interested in having me set up a regular and ongoing trade route between planets? And if so, I need to know the volume of Ores EnMatter's I'd be dealing with on a weekly basis.

I don't want you to have to feed items to the TT that I can pay you a markup % on, and I also don't want to give the impression I'd be doing my service completely free of charge. I would have to run some #'s and figure out a fair % to pay in order to recoup my travel costs (this means I'd be stuck on Next Island until I had least 2,000 or 3,000 PED worth of material before I went back to Calypso).

What I would like to establish from this thread is that I am willing to come to the planet once a week to start off. perhaps twice -- maybe even more, I just want to know if theres enough interest on the planet for a serious buyer to come in and help you avoid the auction listing fee's + the auction shipping fee that is ruining all trade possibilities between the planets right now. It is my understanding that if you list 100 PED worth or ores on the auction, if another planet wants to purchase them they pay 23% the TT value + 1 Ped... that means they'd pay 124 PED + an additional mu% on whatever ore it was just to buy your ore. In short, its nearly impossible for you get other planets to purchase your ores and EnMatters without taking a serious loss on them, or without traveling planets yourself. What can be difficult though is just letting 1,000's of PED you have be stuck in your Ore's in your storage until it becomes worth it to travel planets.

Thats where I come in. :) If I can get most of the socials on board, or most of the big miners on board to sell me a few hundred PED each (or thousands I don't know) to me, and pay you out a fair % so it benefits us both -- let me know.

please respond back with the following information answering these few questions:

1. Would you want me to come to your planet to purchase Ores/EnMatters/Oils?

2. How often would you want me to come to your planet to offer these trade services?

3. How Much PED in Materials will you have for sale each day/week/month ?

4. If I do come to Next Island, where and when is the best place to meet you and purchase your Ores/EnMatters/Oils.

5. What are the biggest items of concern that you want me to purchase so you can make a % on, instead of selling them to the TT or Just letting them sit in your storage?

6. What items can I bring to your planet from Calypso to sell to you (And save you money from paying a shipping fee)?

7. Is there a need for a service like this? What is your opinion on this idea?

8. What is your name, do you belong to a social group or are you a freelancer? Do you represent more than one person, if so how many?



The last thing is I also wanted to mention that if I begin this service, I want you to know I don't plan on taking advantage of anyone -- Honesty is my first policy. I have established myself on Calypso as a fair trader and I am known there, you can ask around :) If we can make this a mutually benefical business where your getting more $ for your items than you'd get off the auction and of course more than tt -- and I can recoup my travel costs (80 PED) by buying in large volume, I think we can make it work!

I just don't want to show up on the planet and waste time trying to purchase things

So If I could meet and add friends to my friend list that are leaders of the social groups there -- we could coordinate an effort for you to collect all your ores and enmat's and items from your soc, then coordinate a time and place for me to meet you and pick them up.

I am also discussing this with a very well known and established trader on RockTropia -- So I may be going there too.

*Along with my services, if you need to me deliver things to other players on the other worlds, or purchase you something from another world and bring it to you when I come to the planet, I would be happy doing this free of charge -- I only ask that if you have me buy something for you, you pay me the amount I paid for it, I am not seeking to profit off of delivering goods or exchanging things between planets for you, I would consider that a favor. (this does not apply to Ores/EnMatters, etc ... just small things like a weapon or a piece of armor or a vehicle you want to deliver to someone, when it becomes a large volume of something I will notice your trying to bypass the shipping fee and take advantage of me, which I don't think would be fair :P but anything small or any couple items u want to get for you, or give to someon I would be happy to do for you :)

O.K.

Long post I know, I hope I get some positive feedback on this!

I would appreciate Private PM's to answer the 8 questions I proposed, other general feedback is welcome on this thread though. thanks! :)

Nice to meet you all, this is my first post on here, and I hope to hear back from you and possibly meet you in game in the near future ;)

-Rachel Pudding :)

 

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Simply put --

I want to come to Next Island once a week, meet with the Social Leaders and Freelancers at a designated spot (say every Sunday between a certain time that works for most people) -- buy the Ore's and other items from you guys, and then travel back. I hope we can keep communication during the week and you can let me know your wants and needs for certain items from Calypso for me to bring, and you can collect the ores from your social during the week so that you have them all ready to sell on Sunday... The actual trading process I hope will go smoothly and work out for you guys, if you are interested in this idea, you dont have to be a social leader, you can be a freelancer who mines 20 PED in Ores a week, I am open to trading with the little guy to the big wigs... I just need to know what volume I need to be prepared to deal in, and establish a time and place to meet you once a week to accomodate your needs. Please respond on the thread, or PM me if your interested in this -- so that you can get a decent % on your Ores and they arent just taking up space and PED in your storages, or worse I hope you arent having to TT any Ores with MU% over 106...

So what I really need is an "in" to the planet, I need to know someone who is in contact with the vast majority of those on the planet and knows social leaders as well as Freelancers that can introduce me to them so that I can coordinate my efforts to meet with them at a time thats convenient.

Please PM me if your a social leader, or if you know a lot of people and can help me get acquainted with the majority of people on the planet that are interested in my trading services :)

ty ty :)