What happened to Rares trading? No profit 160ly away.

Hey all,

So, whenever I visit a station that has rares, I'll buy a batch if I have space and return them to my carrier. I've been doing this for a while.

Today, I find myself (with Carrier) over 160ly away from where I bought these Rare items. So, during a trip to a station to buy some commodities for the carrier, I thought I'd offload some of these. I get to the station and find that the items aren't fetching a higher price than I paid for them! The UI suggests that this station is buying each of them for ~7.8k below the galactic average. What's going on?

I used to to rare runs and, while other trading is better now, it still made decent money. Today, it's simply not worth selling. Has the distance required to get a higher price been increased at some point?

Note: Demand for each is listed as 0 which may well be why the price is low. However, I thought Rares were welcome everywhere, assuming they're legal.
 
I can’t explain what you’ve observed except to say I’ve seen it occasionally before, but it was an uncommon (“rare” even!) event, usually profits were good. I will also hijack your thread to say I wish we could buy/sell rares in the FC commodity market (you can’t)… when FCs first came out I bought one just for the purpose of having EVERY rare available to other players in one place… disappointed when I couldn’t :(
 
Could it be the state ?

You know how boom effects the amount available, maybe another state reduces the demand and hence the price ?
 
Faction state appears to be "None" currently. It's showing as an "Exploited System" but then I know nothing about Power Play.
 
Faction state appears to be "None" currently. It's showing as an "Exploited System" but then I know nothing about Power Play.
did you jump out of the system and back in with the ship? i think there is sometimes a bug of rares not updating if you simply travel on a FC.

(similar to market data bug directly after you log in. the game "doesn't know" where you are in that case)
 
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