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I've made a table of some of the prices on four of the busiest markets in Primera. Busier markets tend to have lower prices. The table compares the prices of Q1 weapons, Q5 food, and Q5 gifts. Right now among the four markets considered the cheapest Q1 weapons and Q5 gifts are in the USA and the cheapest Q5 food is in Israel.
There are two numbers listed for each commodity for each country's market. The first number is the price of the commodity in that country's currency and the second number is a number that allows you to easily compare and contrast the various prices. I explain in the analysis below the table how the second number is calculated. I've bolded the best prices for each commodity. "Total Postings" is a count of how many commodity postings of all types of items (not just the three considered) that there are on each market at the time of writing this article.
USA
Q1 Weapons
1.23 : 252
Q5 Food
3.86 : 317
Q5 Gifts
6.69 : 274
Total Postings: 55
Poland
Q1 Weapons
1.20 : 480
Q5 Food
3.95 : 632
Q5 Gifts
6.95 : 556
Total Postings: 25
Lithuania
Q1 Weapons
1.19 : 297
Q5 Food
3.37 : 336
Q5 Gifts
6.50 : 324
Total Postings: 16
Israel
Q1 Weapons
1.00 : 328
Q5 Food
2.40 : 315
Q5 Gifts
4.59 : 301
Total Postings: 13
I chose these four markets because the first three are generally the busiest in Primera and Israel because it's my home market and also reasonably busy. The countries are listed in order of how many postings they have. The number listed after each price in currency is the price of 10 production units of the commodity expressed in mAu. mAu is a unit I made up that refers to one thousandth of 1 Gold. The "m" stands for "milli" and "Au" is the chemical symbol for gold. Q1 guns cost 2 production units to make so the cost in mAu is the cost of 5 Q1 weapons. Q5 Food costs 5 production units so their price in mAu is what 2 Q5 food costs. And it takes 10 production units to make a Q5 gift so their price in mAu is the price for 1 Q5 gift. The reason I did it that way was so you could easily see which types of commodities are currently the most profitable. For instance, you can quickly see by comparing the mAu per 10 production unit cost of the three commodities that Q5 food is currently the most profitable in all four countries and Q1 weapons are the least profitable in all except Israel.
Some things to keep in mind when considering these numbers:
The prices in mAu assume that you buy currency at the current rate on the currency market with your Gold and then use that currency to buy the commodities. So you could get better prices if you were to post your Gold for currency but you'd have to wait for it to sell whereas you can get currency instantly by buying it with Gold.
Prices on the Polish market move much more quickly than the other markets because unlike the other three countries, Poland doesn't peg the value of its currency to Gold so the price of currency is decided by the whims of supply and demand. At the time of writing this article, the Polish currency (PLN) costs 0.08 Gold per PLN, which is much higher than I've seen in a long time. So if the price for PLN to move back down to rates I'm more accustomed to, the prices for goods in mAu would be significantly lower.
The USA, Lithuania, and Israel all sell currency at a fixed rate so their monetary markets are very stable; Israel takes the extra step of also selling Gold at a fixed rate which is convenient for sellers since you can get Gold for your currency you earned selling goods right away at a competitive rate instead of having to post your currency.
The USA, Poland, and Lithuania all have very low import and value added taxes but while Israel has a very low value added tax, it has a 10% import tax which doesn't affect you directly if you're buying goods but it does if you're selling them since the seller pays all taxes.
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