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So I wanna sell some Bridge Officers on the eschange...what price to ask?

realisticaltyrealisticalty Member Posts: 851 Arc User
edited March 2014 in The Academy
I keep wondering what to charge for my "extra" Boffs?

In the past I always felt I either charged too little or too much.

What abilities make a Boff worth 100K, 1M, 10M?
Or what races?

Any guess as to how much I should charge for 'em? For the more common ones its not even worth my time selling em.
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  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Human trafficking? You want to sell PEOPLE on the EXCHANGE? :P

    Romulans with Superior Romulan Operative fetch 10 mil. Remans with infiltrator go for twice that. Humans and Klingons are a dime a dozen and sell for practically nothing.
  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    oh, no matter what color, race, passives or rare skills it has, I think 10k is plenty.

    Um, put them up about 5 eastern time, would you?


    Kidding aside, it depends. A rom with the space trait is worth millions. A blue gorn isnt worth the trouble to walk to the exchange to sell it. A purple or blue with one of the few "only obtainable by BOs" skills is worth something depending on the skill in question and the faction it is for and going prices which vary.

    Basically, if you want to get into the market, you have to learn the market, same as all things. The way you do that is find the cheapest nearly identical guy to the one you want to sell and look at the asking price.

    The easy way out is to farm romulans, atm. Got SRO? Sell, win. Not got SRO? Out the airlock with it.
  • mithrosnomoremithrosnomore Member Posts: 400 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    It all depends upon whether your Boff has a rare trait or a sought-after rank III skill.

    If not, then whatever the cheapest Boffs of that race and type are going for is your starting point.

    If they do, then you have to find the lowest price on one of those and use that to figure out a price.

    It can be well worth the time spent searching through pages of Boffs to find those that have a certain trait or skill.

    It can be the difference between selling a Boff for a few hundred or for several hundred thousand or even millions.
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    It all depends upon whether your Boff has a rare trait or a sought-after rank III skill.

    If not, then whatever the cheapest Boffs of that race and type are going for is your starting point.

    If they do, then you have to find the lowest price on one of those and use that to figure out a price.

    It can be well worth the time spent searching through pages of Boffs to find those that have a certain trait or skill.

    It can be the difference between selling a Boff for a few hundred or for several hundred thousand or even millions.


    All good points... but occasionally I'll post something for waaaay too much money but someone buys it anyway. Crappy Exchange Search Engine FTW! :rolleyes:
  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I ran into the same issue, I get a number of BOFFs from doff missions. I gave up long ago trying to figure out the price, so I give them away free, or post them for 1 EC on the exchange.

    If you read zone chat, you can pick up in demand BOFF skills, and if you have one with those skills, charge more EC.

    A TSS3 BOFF I have seen go for 15 to 25mil.
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  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Pretty much as stated in "all of the above" ... Do a quick (or thorough) search first and see what's hot an what's not ...

    Usually, any BoFF with a Tier III Space skill, will be more expensive, and also Female BoFF's still tend to go for more than an identically skilled male BoFF (yep, that still happens)

    The most popular ones are of course the Tier III Tactical skills, but any of the "in vogue" skills at Tier III will make your BoFF worth more ...

    BoFF traits aren't as important on the Fed side, as there isn't really any "OH CRAPZ! PWNAGE!, MUST HAVZ" skills for the majority of the Fed aligned races ...

    Romulan BoFF's with the "Superior Operative" space trait, are, as mentioned, worth several million EC, but you can also get (with a consequent lowering of the skill benefit) A few hundred thousand EC for 'Romulan Operative" and Basic Romulan Operative" (again females usually go fore more than males) ... There is also the Romulan "Subterfuge" BoFF trait, which those that 'lurve' to "Cloak & Alpha" will pay a little more for.

    Some people will try and pull a swifty on unsuspecting players, so you will sometimes see particularly Purple Romulan BoFF's for well over 10million or even 20Million+ EC though they don't even have the "Sup.Op" trait, because unfortunately (or fortunately for the scalpers) some people don't even know WHY Romulan BoFF's are popular ...
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