Im looking for a system that attracts lots of miners. Preferably a mix if ice and metallic rings. No, im not interested in ganking them. I want to buy surplus tritium from miners and pay top dollar to have it loaded for me.
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Don't know about top tritium mining sites, although I doubt you'll find many people mining tritium as there's far more lucrative minerals to mine instead.
However, if your goal is just to have your carrier loaded with Tritium, your best bet is to park right next to a station selling tritium with high supply, setup a buy order at a generous price, and make sure your price gets listed on INARA or similar site. You'll have your carrier loaded by the next day, as people will be able to make high profits quickly doing 30 second loops between the station and your carrier.
However, if your goal is just to have your carrier loaded with Tritium, your best bet is to park right next to a station selling tritium with high supply, setup a buy order at a generous price, and make sure your price gets listed on INARA or similar site. You'll have your carrier loaded by the next day, as people will be able to make high profits quickly doing 30 second loops between the station and your carrier.
Bellite 4 has a double trit overlap I use to feed my hungry behemoth. Not sure if any CMDRs are there to just mine and sell though.
I find that by the time I mine painite and platinum and sell it to only to chase tritium inventories around I just mine it myself.
I find that by the time I mine painite and platinum and sell it to only to chase tritium inventories around I just mine it myself.
My intention is to buy up tritium and other low tier ores that players may be looking to dump at a modest profit rather than just eject. If i can keep the carrier close enough to the ring, they could still make money by selling me their lower value ore.
Im not looking for people who target tritium. Im looking for people who were out there mining for whatever and ended up getting some tritium as a by product. Maybe they are after diamonds or monazite ir whatever but they end up with a hodge podge of tritium, bromellite, methane clathrate and whatever. Stuff people dont usually target, thats the stuff i want. Im offering a service that allows them to sell it close to the extraction point rather than eject it and get nothing.
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No need to park your carrier in a mining system, just make sure (as mentioned already) your buy order is attractive enough and you advertise it through Inara et al.
To provide some reference, before I travelled to Colonia around Christmas last year I put in a buy order for 8,000t of Tritium @80k (or was it 75k? can't remember).
The carrier was somewhere in the Bubble, and the order was fulfilled within 2-3 hours the same evening. Was quite surprised myself how quick that happened.
To provide some reference, before I travelled to Colonia around Christmas last year I put in a buy order for 8,000t of Tritium @80k (or was it 75k? can't remember).
The carrier was somewhere in the Bubble, and the order was fulfilled within 2-3 hours the same evening. Was quite surprised myself how quick that happened.
Most miners have their limpets set up to ignore all metals/minerals they arent interested in anyways. I doubt that you would get much traffic
Most or just the most experienced?
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Another thing I would say is - the only way Tritium will end up in people's hold as a by-product of mining is if they largely laser mine in icy rings, and (imo) the only reason you'd want to do that now is because you want to mine Tritium because both yields and value of icy ring commodities are pretty poor compared to Metallic rings. And you're better off getting Tritium by mining metals, selling those and buying Tritium with the proceeds (unless you RP of course).
most, and most unexperienced. you are more likely to get through to experienced miners if you explain them, that you really, really want their methanol monohydrate crystals for BGS manipulation, and your FC offers a one stop for everything but the most profitable commodities. most unexperienced miner won't even know what you are talking about, and will look up highest selling price for platinum, and sell heir osmium same place as well - or do an hour long roundtrip to get the best sell price for each of the metals they mined. at least that's my experience with them
Well thats discouraging if true. People chasing their tails all over the bubble with a full load trying to sell each ore? Hopefully some of them can see the value in what im planning to offer.most, and most unexperienced. you are more likely to get through to experienced miners if you explain them, that you really, really want their methanol monohydrate crystals for BGS manipulation, and your FC offers a one stop for everything but the most profitable commodities. most unexperienced miner won't even know what you are talking about, and will look up highest selling price for platinum, and sell heir osmium same place as well - or do an hour long roundtrip to get the best sell price for each of the metals they mined. at least that's my experience with them
the concept of "credits per hour" is hard to grasp for many. they look at not making the maximum price as a loss, and more so with FC owners (why should he make profit from my loss?)
i have a good tip for you though. what works a bit with my FC is always paying the same, fixed price. no matter what the daily maximum is. some miners like that ("so i don't have to compare prices, calculate distances - sometimes i make some CR less, and sometimes i make some CR more from you"). it also spares me of setting the prices daily.
what i like are the rare middle-experienced miners, which drop me a message: "you have left your buyorder open after the market crashed today, i have filled it but i thought to remind you".
Probably the most experienced set the ignore lists, but the least experienced will probably just dump less valuable minerals to make room for more valuable minerals.
Sorry, won't work in my opinion.
I mine a lot (mostly cores, but surface deposits with T are collected too), both in my old and now in my fresh alt account.
FCs are not taken into consideration by me when wanting to sell.
As these carriers usually do not take all the other worthless stuff (ltd for instace) at the top price I intend to sell it for later (call me egoistic).
So I save one intermediate stop by simply selling the tritium where I have to go to to get rid of those other opals anyway.
For some special cases (as a thank you when repairs were possible or a scarab could be bought) I keep some T to donate, but I am neither looking for FCs to sell to (filtered out in the contact panel) nor in Inara (not selected especially as those informations are often expired or simply wrong, when someone is only laundering their money for their friends IMO).
But I am only one of thousands, others might differ, so I wish you all the luck.
).FCs are to me more me a private resource for the benefit of the owner and I count myself lucky when I find one offering repairs or services unavailable in some systems (like Kwakimo, no refuel, no repair, no limpets).
However, these behemoths look a lot better to approach than those dingy space ports with their M pads, for sure.
Especially when someone just blew up an asteroid and found out during the last 10 seconds countdown (I^Hthat friend just had to hurry that up) that another asteroid in my^Hhis back prevented a safe retreat.. Funny is, the Kanso Za Naito here did not even want to get the tritium donated (at 100% full).
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IMO if you want to make businesss with miners, your best bet would be to park near a popular high value mineral mining spot, and offer generous prices, just little less than market value, or even at the average market value.
That way you would actually be offering a valuable service to most miners:
The FC owner, could then hoard minerals while waiting for the ideal time when some station gets the magic combination of states then dump everything at max profit. Or would chase around good markets over time while the FC keeps getting filled.
Everybody wins.
That way you would actually be offering a valuable service to most miners:
- They would sell for almost the same profit as they would get by selling their stuff themselves.
- ... but they would save the time and trouble of having to chase a good station to sell by themselves, and the travel time. They could just go back to mining. Also, carriers don't have bulk tax like stations so they could empty their large ships without being penalized.
The FC owner, could then hoard minerals while waiting for the ideal time when some station gets the magic combination of states then dump everything at max profit. Or would chase around good markets over time while the FC keeps getting filled.
Everybody wins.
Hmmm. I appreciate the input but i want the crapites and tritium more than i want the high dollar stuff. I guess i could buy both to make it worth visiting the FC. A loss-leader strategy i guess. Im going to try it. If i can't make it work then ill sell the worthless barge.
actually i think thats it what might work. putting high prices for mining only commodities and getting the miner by that. at least my stock of hydrogen peroxide is constantly rising (and nice for bgs mining missions). keep us posted!