SCRUBS

Signal Cartel Redistribution of Unwanted Blueprint Service (SCRUBS)

A blueprint buyback service created and managed by: Xavec

The Crux of It

• The price offered will be calculated using the Fuzzwork blueprint appraisal tool
• The bottom line of this calculator will be used - Profit (Sell - Material - Install).
• You will be offered 50% of this price which means the profit in the BPC will be split between you (as the BPC finder) and Xavec (the manufacturer/hauler/seller).

Terms and Conditions

• Any blueprints for which the Profit is zero or negative will be bought for a flat (low) rate which is based on the value of the outcome product.
• Any Blueprint originals will be bought for 90% of the Jita price in line with the loot buyback service. The price offered will be a flat rate based on an unresearched BPO.
• Some items have very inflated sell prices pushing up the profit of the blueprints on fuzzwork (see FAQs below)
• Any BPCs for T1 explo frigates or the fittings for starter fits will be donated to Signal Cartel.
• Any BPCs for ships used by FOD such as Brutixes or Punishers will likewise be offered free of charge to them.
• If you run any Signal Cartel division and there are ships you'd find handy please message Xavec about ship donation.
• The price is open to negotiation, however for most BPCs the offer will not exceed 50%.
• For very high profit BPCs (eg Marshal, High-grade ascendancy omega) a higher offer will be made automatically, more than 50%.
• A manufacturing service is offered. You supply the BPC and receive the finished product. The price will be quoted to you on a case-by-case basis and will be based on the material cost.
• If there are any BPCs you would like, please message Xavec - he currently has a collection of over 15,000 BPCs which he will never ever use.

How Do I Take Advantage?

• To take advantage please send Cevax Aubaris a contract with the blueprints in with a zero isk price. You will receive a reply with a proposed price.
  • Do not send evepraisal links, use contracts.
  • Click here to learn how to create a contract.

• If you accept the proposal the zero price contract will be accepted and you will receive the ISK as a transfer. If you prefer you can make a new contract with the agreed price in the contract.

• Contracts should be issued to Cevax Aubaris. Preferably at Zoohen, but contracts from any of the Signal Cartel stations (including AD) or Jita will be accepted.

• Any questions can be posted to Xavec either in the BPC trading channel of the Carrier Logistics LTD Discord, the Corp Discord, Personal Discord message or by messaging Xavec in-game.

• Please also see the bottom of the contracts page for SCRUBS specific instructions.

FAQs

Q: Why only 50%?
A: Firstly I sell to buy prices to keep my cashflow up which means I make much less than you. Secondly the time and effort required (getting materials, hauling them, production, hauling and selling the product) is high and costly.

Q: Why have you offered me more than 50% according to Fuzzwork?
A: Some BPCs that have very high profits will automatically attract a much higher price paid to you. 

Q: Why have you offered me less than 50% according to Fuzzwork?
A: Most of the time this is because the items have a high sell price but a very, very, low buy price making them harder to sell. Usually the buy/sell volume of these items is very very low. This indicates that the sell prices are wildly overly inflated. Rigs and storyline items are good examples of these. 

Q: But this BPC is for sale in contracts for X millions!
A: Just because it is for sale at that price doesn't mean they actually sell for that price. I do not buy blueprints at the contract price because they are often vastly inflated and the true value is based on the profit margin. There may be exceptions to this I don't know about so please feel free to ask. I promise I don't bite. 

Q: How much will you buy Zeugma or Ligature BPCs for? 
A: 250,000 and 100,000 ISK respectively.

Q: Can I just get whatever price you offer straight away?
A: Yes! Just write "Auto-accept" in the contract comments! Note: this price cannot be renegotiated unless an error is made by Xavec.

Q: How do I donate BPCs?
A: Just write "donation" in the contract comments. Profit will be donated to the corp and may be eligable for formal recognition. 

Q: I need a blueprint copy of an item. Can I have one?
A: Potentially, yes! Just tell me what you need and how many runs and I will see what I have. I may ask you to pay if I need to do some T2 invention but if I have a large number of the BPCs I will just give you them for free.

Q: Can you give me some worked examples of the profit margins?
A: Sure. Example 1: I buy a packrat blueprint from you for 15,500,000 isk because the fuzzwork "bottom line" is 31,000,000. The materials cost me 12,000,000 and I sell to the jita buy price of 38,000,000 (not the 44 million sell price) minus the install price of around 1.5 million,  leaving me a profit of 9 million before taking into account the risks & time of hauling.        
 Example 2: Capital Drone Speed Augmentor II Rig, fuzzwork "bottom line" is 137 million. The Material cost is 148 million and the Jita buy price is unusually high at time of writing of 140 million. The sell price is 300 million but the volumes sold are low and most of the item sales are from buy orders. This means that the profit of the rig in fuzzwork is artificially inflated. The actual rig is loss-making.

Reference

Original forum post: Announcing SCRUBS - a BPC buyback Service for Signal Cartel