Editing Making ISK as an Explorer (section)

==Strategy 2: Buy-back services==
One easy method for quickly realizing ISK from loot is to use what is known as a buy-back service:
# Loot is appraised on the service's external website, using various back-end third-party tools plugged into EVE's external API.  The appraisals are generally some percentage below Jita's highest buy bids.  Some loot may get special treatment in their appraisal.  
# The appraisal is then used as the basis of an in-game contract, where the service provider's alts purchase the loot from the player for the appraisal price, at an agreed location.  
# It is then up to the third party to haul and sell the goods as they see fit.

The different third-party buyback services differ in who they serve, from where they will do pickup and what percentage of Jita buy prices they pay:
* Signal Cartel has a corporate buy-back service [https://carrier-logistics.space/ Carrier Logistics], exlusively for corporation members.  It does buy-back, most of the time, at 90% of Jita buy prices from any of the [[CS:Corporation_Contracts_and_Hangars#Locations|Signal Cartel bases]] in high sec and, unusually since it is a wormhole system, at 80% of Jita buy from [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Thera#Thera_XII_-_The_Sanctuary_Institute_of_Paleocybernetics Thera XII - The Sanctuary Institute of Paleocybernetics], Signal Cartel's base in Thera.
* The best-known third-party service available to all players is that of [https://highsec.evebuyback.com/ Highsec Buyback].  It, as the name suggests, will buy from all NPC stations in high-security space and has what it terms a "base rate" of 90% of Jita buy orders.  For how the service operates see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEVrBXCbRj8 this YouTube video from Rushlock].
* There is also a similar buy-back service for low-sec space, called [https://lowsec.evebuyback.com/ Lowsec Buyback], ostensibly [https://forums.eveonline.com/t/lowsec-buyback/319942 using the same technology, but by different players].  There the "base rate" is 70% of Jita buy orders.
Note that you are not guaranteed to be quoted the normal percentage of Jita buy prices, but the appraisal screens should give you enough information to assess the value of the offer.

From a player perspective, these services dramatically reduce the level of effort to realize a significant portion of the ISK available from their loot and '''are likely to be the most time-efficient''' means of doing so.  However, other strategies can yield significnatly more ISK.