Price Fixing on the GTN : would like your opinion :)

I've been crafting and then selling the 1st Tier Purple, Level 21 Implants on the GTN for quite some time (since Launch)

To make these, the mats are relatively easy to acquire.
Genetic Anomaly x6 Microscopic Symbiote x4 and Molecular Programmer x4 - x6.
Note: there are no Purple component (Mechanical Symbiote - needed for 2nd Tier Purples ) necessary to create these

Back in Dec 2011, I was selling these at a reasonable price of 8k each, since it seemed at that time I was the only one selling them.

Around March, a few crafters joined the market, but they were selling at much higher price and I received in-game threats to "Fix" the price of these to 10k or quote.. "We will burn you to the ground".

Okay... 8k 10k, still in the "reasonable" range I thought, and set mine to their liking.

You don't say!

I also have crafted the level 21 implants in the past. I am curious from what you say, that you can afford to charge 8k for a purple level 21 implant. I assume you must be either gathering your own materials or running diplomacy missions to collect them? If you were buying materials off the GTN on the servers I play on you would be selling at a massive loss. This was one reason why I gave up making them, there are easier ways to make money crafting.

Wow! 3 pages. My first post that made 3 pages so far

Yes, I primarily do the missions for Bioanalysis and Diplomacy to acquire the necessary mats.

Anyways, here's my total cost to create One.

1) Around One to Two Missions level 17-24 : Bountiful Yield : Grade 2 Biochemical Compounds = 2 missions for Genetic Anomaly x 6 = 940 Credits.

Also, I can go to Imperial Side Nar Shaddaa Heroic-4 area with my 50 Sith Sorcerer and AoE pharm for these, but on a per hour basis, I can harvest more doing missions. But cost wise, it'll cost more since I'd have to include the price to repair my level 50 gear ,,,,, around 20k a run.

2) One Mission level 17-24 : Rich Yield : Grade 2 Biochemical Sample = 1 mission for Microscopic Symbiote x4 = 535 Credits.
3) One Mission level 17-24 : Rich Yield: Grade 2 Medical Supplies (either Dark sided or Light sided) = 1 mission for Molecular Programmer x 4 = 640 Credits
4) Some schematics need an additional "Single-Pulse Implant Processor" x 1 (Crew skill vendor) = 10 Credits.

So.. my total cost is 940 + 535 + 640 + 10 = 2,125 Credits
If I sell each at 8,000 (my original price) I make a ... 8,000 - (cartel cost 6% = 480) - 2,125 = 5,395 Credit Profit.

Now, due to several threats in the past, I adjusted my price to 14k each = 14,000 - (Cartel cost 6% = 840 ) - 2,125 = 11,035 Credit Profit

Now I'm threaten again to adjust to their 23K price
But I'll probably continue to sell them at 14K.

I should mention that I have 6 accounts and I have a "Factory" producing these mats in large quantities?
Yes, I'm a crafting addict.