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Its come to mind that our product market is constantly being 'overloaded' by sellers. Due to our relatively small population the ratio of demand vs supply must come into account when we, as business owners, decide to put our product onto the market. As with any business, in real life or in e-sim, we want to get the best price for our product whilst at the same time making sure that you don't price yourself out of the market you also don't want to get involved in pricing wars with competitors. This scenario may of course be great for the customer but it doesn't bowed well for your business if your selling your product at such a low rate that it won't make you any money, especially if you have wages to pay for.
The reason I suggest the term 'overloaded' is the fact that due to supply outstripping demand, by some margin, citizen A may put his product on the market and desperate for it to sell will put his entire stock of 400 Q1 food for £0.15 (an example). Now you may think that they will sell very quickly but they don't, you see the system has now been 'overloaded' and you have now forced any competitor to sell below your price and you've created so much supply, without similar demand, that it may take days for the system to recover. All the time your selling so much of your product way below market value your forcing your competitors to do the same if they've got wages to pay for in GBP.
If you sell your product at the going rate by undercutting your nearest competitor by 0.01 but then put so much of said product onto the market all your doing is forcing competitors to constantly drop below you. Where as if you'd put a small amount say 30-40 units, depending on what it is(i.e. Grain 250-350), your nearest competitor is more likely to maintain his price and you will be more likely to sell your product for the price you want for it. Even if your competitor undercut you by the usual 0.01 but he was also only putting a small amount of supply onto the market at any one time it would give you both equal opportunity to sell some produce and make some money.
I have a Q2 food company but I don't sell any produce onto the UK market for said reason or any other market where the same process is occurring. I don't have any employees as I found that half the time it was doubtful I would be able to pay them on time. I would like to employ people and grow my business but I can't compete within the current UK market conditions i'm afraid. I know that businesses are entitled to sell their product and how much of it at the price they want. I'm not against those who sell their product below market value, what I'm against is them throwing so much of their product onto the market and creating so much supply without demand and creating 'overload'.
We can't control the markets! But any market that has no foreign influence we can create some form of co-operative, or etiquette, where no UK citizen puts too much of their product onto the market at any one time. This would allow all competitors to get a fair price for their product, and make some money, and at the same time would not place so much supply onto the market. Also, placing all your product onto the UK market does not help the country grow. As in real life Countries rely on their exports and in e-sim this is no exception, business's with employee's will first and foremost need to make enough GBP in any one day to pay for the next days wages, but any surplus or those without employee's should look to sell their product on foreign markets thereby bringing more gold into the UK and helping our fine Country grow.
I apologize for the length of this article, but I feel I have got my point across if you have read it. Constructive comments are welcome.
Regards
Castellane
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