Newcomer / Intro Commodity prices

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
As ever, I think I'm missing the bleeding obvious.

According to EDDB, I can get ~860k per LTD:

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When I get to the station, it's almost just half that:

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The timing of the price listing on EDDB is just a few minutes ago. Could someone please point at me an laugh at my confused misinterpretation?

Thanks.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
The demand is shown as 2 (the market has very low demand for the item) therefore your quantity (128) is hugely greater than that demand and so the market will only pay a fraction of what was shown.

Basically, you need to have less than 10xDemand (I think that is the figure) otherwise this market collapse in the price happens.

So if you had gone to those markets with demand in the hundreds you could get their stated prices (probably).

EDIT - Just checked on INARA and it looks like the price drops if you have more than a quarter of the demand level. Go here and mouse-over the demand figure to see what I mean:

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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
OK, that makes sense.

What is odd though, is this: I just put two units of LTD's in my Cobra and visited the market. Even though I only have two in the hold, it still only gives me 447K instead of the 860-ish - demand is still 2.

The rest of the LTD's are on the carrier. Is it making a check against my total stash of the commodity?
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
No, 2 is still plenty enough. Its about 15-25% to start triggering the price drop.
Its variously called Bulk Tax or Demand Profiling, but dont try to understand or justify it, its just FD being too damned clever for their own good.
Low Demand = Lower prices than it says.
 
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