Little question

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.06.2007, 14:38

Are there actually companies that Buy from players and then sell to players for making profit , and don't do anything with it ?

EX : Buy q0 steel at 130 selling SAME q0 steel at 135 ?
EX : Buy well 100sqm at 2 millions , sell at 2.5 millions
EX : Buy seeds research Q10 at 200k , sell it at 250 K
=> Without doing something with it ?
If you do , post WHY , and post if you ONLY do that or if you have some lucrative bussines also ...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.06.2007, 15:36

Of course there are companies doing this. I am one of them. But I make only few bucks out of it (something like 1% of my overall daily profit).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.06.2007, 15:37

i ment are there companies that say make 80% of their profits out of this?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.06.2007, 15:38

I don't know. I think that making regular business brings much higher and much more stable profits.....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.06.2007, 17:44

Well first of all I should point out that anyone who was making a killing at it probably wouldn't say so publicly. If your business involves buying from A, and selling the same thing to C at a markup, the last thing you'd want to do is let A and C find out about each other.

I'm sure people do it. You get a sweetheart deal and then turn it around. It's part of why I'm not a fan of trade groups.

But I don't figure anyone is doing it as a major share of their business. You need a lot of cash on hand, and you're at the mercy of the two other companies. You can't control your own growth, and if one of them stops playing you're either stuck with excess product you can't use or left empty-handed with promises you can't fulfill.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.06.2007, 22:01

It is definetly not fun to do.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 16.06.2007, 23:30

I supply a middleman, with 1 million stones / Day

My Partner has 5 000 000 fk, i dont no, what he/she do, but i think it

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17.06.2007, 08:22

I can see the difficulties in selling large amounts of stones as they are only used for expansion. I use less than 100k a day, so maby only the top 5 companies are big enough to need 1mil a day.

So to be able to sell really large amounts you need daily contracts with an enourmous amount of companies. It sounds wise to me

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17.06.2007, 10:59

I was doing this at the beggining.
It needs large amounts of cash which slows down your own production and it's very risky. If you spot a great offer, buy lots of stuff and it turns out that all the prices are going down you are in trouble. You just lost sometimes huge part of your money. It's good for a small scale. I usualy do that when I spot a great offer at the marketplace. I buy it, search forums for company which pays most and send it to them.
This requires a lot of time in the game so I rarely find any offers and if I do I usualy use that product myself instead of selling it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 17.06.2007, 23:40

i buy gas frome companys and sell it at my gas station and make about $200,000 a day (which is aboput 10% of my daily profit) buy i just do it on the side

Con inc.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 18.06.2007, 14:23

Myth that ain't the same

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 18.06.2007, 16:33

[quote="Hinkelsteinbauer"]
I send the stones with market price - 1