Spreading out sales

 So I've been having a look at possible other sell locations for my rigs. At the moment I sell everything I manufacture direct to market in Jita, which goes straight back to input materials etc. But after chatting with Ardel Corvallon of ARDCO about Eden trade and general trade strategy I thought I'd take a look at Adam4Eve market checker tool:

https://www.adam4eve.eu/

That threw up a lot of the usual suspects, some of which I've had trade characters in previously. Previously I've tried to sell what I do in the other hubs, implants, deadspace mods etc. The issue with this was always demand for those high end items. People don't go to tash-murkon prime to buy a new deadspace shield hardener. However they might buy more common things, like rigs.

As I've talked about in other entries I primarily produce and sell rigs, mostly tech 2 medium rigs, as they have a consistently high demand. Mining barges, cruisers, battlecruiser, haulers, all need medium rigs. I decided to look at the price and demand for Medium CCC II rigs in Amarr, Rens and Dodixie and was shocked by the price difference. 

At time of writing the price of a Medium CCC II is:

• 15.5mil in Jita
• 18.3mil in Amarr
• 23.7mil in Dodixie!!!
• 22.4mil in Hek
• 19.6mil in Rens

For reference my build cost is about 13.5mil per rig.

There's very little daily demand in Hek, but there's plenty in the others. Dodixie in particular seems to be a wild mix of high prices and decent demand. I think next time some of my rigs come out of the oven I'm going to ship some to Dodixie and see how selling there goes. Logistics would be the tricky part of broadening my strategy like this but it looks like it could be lucrative. 

One thing I could do is sell some of the rigs to my Jita buyer when I do a drop off run at, say, Jita sell, and then I could include them in my public contracts that get shipped to the other hubs. This would mean I don't have to worry about extra logistics and my existing sellers can handle the market pvp, without having to run around on any of my industry toons. The downside would be that my traders would get this extra profit, not my industrialists, but it's all money my way in the end.

This might be my last day with the game for a while as I'll be travelling to family over the Christmas period, so something to try in the new year, but I'm excited about this new and potentially lucrative avenue into new revenue. I'm increasingly thinking specialising in rigs is my niche, so I'm happy to lean into that.