When you
build from a blueprint, you must factor your cost correctly. Even
if you mine ore and refine it, your minerals still have an intrinsic
value that you need to apply towards your costs. Knowing what
value to assign to refined minerals is pretty simple. If you
are looking to make quick cash, you would look at the highest buy
order in whatever market hub is nearest to you. If you didn't
want to deal with market orders and fees, you would just sell to the
highest buy order, wipe your hands and think of ways to spend your
ISK.
You
should, at the very least, apply that buy order price to the cost of
the minerals you refined and factor that into the cost end of your
production run. This will give you a more accurate cost. If
you can sell the minerals to a buy order for more than you can sell
your manufactured item on a sell order, then you are losing ISK. You
might as well just sell the minerals to a buy order. Even
though, technically, the minerals don't cost you much to mine
(basically mining equipment and time), you should still be factoring
that in. If you aren't, then you may think you can sell your
wares for a lot less than the sell orders on the marketplace. This
leads to undervalued items, ships, and ammo. It's an easy way
to turn the marketplace into a whore's market. There is plenty
of ISK to be made so that we don't have to cut each others' throats
for 5% profits. Don't even get me started about the .01 ISK
game.
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