A little Summary

Now it is two years later. Time for a little summary.

So I started with 100.000.000,00 ISK.

Looking at my sell orders I see roughly 1.100.000.000,00 ISK. Now of course this is the number of ISK I want to earn not what I did earn. So I reveal a little secret. I am planing with a gross margin of approx. 50%. Expensive items have a lower, inexpensive items have a higher gross margin. Taking this into account I seem to have managed to aquire 550.000.000,00 ISK in goods.

Now, I must admit that I have a obsessive compulsive disorder to pile BPOs. Often I did not have enough money to afford the minerals to rebuild sold items, due to buying BPOs all the time. These were the times I had to go begging for credit from other departments. But I paided back all dues! OK, right now I owe 21.000.000,00 ISK to the POS department… You got me there. But what I accually wanted to write is how much the BPOs are worth right now (only to buy them unresearched from NPCs). That’s 917.500.000,00 ISK.

Did I mention that the division has no cash on its account? Why was that again? Right, I’m buying BPO like crazy.

So I accumulated roughly 2 Bil ISK in two years. That’s 2.7 Mil ISK per day in average. Not too bad for refilling the market orders and producing stuff once or twice every week.

The Inspiration

Back in February 2012 – life in High-Sec got boring running Level 4 missions – I stumbled over a report from Nurge84 (https://www.eveger.de/forum/showthread.php?47206-Experiment-Leben-im-Low-Sec). He wrote about his experience living in low security space.

That article finally gave me the inertia to do what I had been thinking about the one or a lot more sleepness nights in bed: Live in Low-Sec and seed an own market hub by building it from scratch.

So I put some money to an extra corp acount only dedicated to the Low-Sec market hub. Starting with 100.000.000 ISK. Not much, but enough for the experiment. I planned producing all at the market hub by myself. So I set out to buy some BPO. As I am a Minmatar fan, I concentrated on buying the Minmatar frigate BPOs, the small projectile weapon BPO, the small projectile ammunition BPOs. The plan was to first sell Tech 1 stuff and then add in Tech 2 stiff where it fits.

The shop opened up in March 2012 and is still running. Till now I never regretted doing it.

Cash is coming slowly but steady.

To be continued…