Valuation of BPO Collection

Hi,

I have roughly 91% of all NPC available BPOs, 65% of which are perfectly researched. The full list is:

I wonder what the actual value of this would be. I’ve been researching across 12 characters for a full year.

Edit: Of course, I’d be interesting in selling the collection if there are interested parties. Maybe an auction.

Thanks in advance!

can you share Janice link ?

I mean, sure:

That’s just the base price though. My own valuation works like this:

Base price:

124,286,691,923.23 ISK

Base price with research costs, based on 3.5% system index and 1% facility tax:

139,782,753,502,97 ISK

This is based on current cost calculation. Realistically, it was 4-5% system index and the costs were higher during most of my research. This collection was a value store for me but thx CCP :smiley:

Then, implementing an account of the cost of total research/invention hours invested, assuming perfect scheduling, based on a 5mil PLEX price and 33 research slots per account, we reach the number of:

175,757,568,379.16 ISK

I then add a 2.5% convenience fee for having collected all of these in one place and taking the risks to do so. Trade hub margins on these are usually much higher anyway.

180,151,507,588.64 ISK

However, we know lower tiered blueprints are often selling at a loss, even (partly) researched ones, which is why I’m willing to cut off all blueprints below 50mil in researched valuation and reduce their price to 66% of valuation. That puts:

32,711,495,209.68 ISK * 0.66 = 21,589,586,838.39 ISK
So

180,151,507,588.64 - 32,711,495,209.68 + 21,589,586,838.39 ISK

…leave us with:

169,029,599,217.35 ISK

Which is the point I would start an auction at. Rounded down to 165Bil. I’m just wondering if anyone can share their own ways of valuating their BPO collections?

Wow, this is a great, very methodical valuation. Thank you!

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I’ve made an auction contract in Dodixie, selling this collection minus some blueprints I wanna keep. I put it up as 130bil start, quite a bit less than the starting bid proposed here, buyout sits at 174bil. The changes reflect the BPOs I took out of the offer.