Smuggling Boosters—and EVE's Tiny Drug Market.

Read about smuggling in EVE Online—and how it's not the best dedicated profession.

I've been ambitiously smuggling boosters in EVE Online; 5 Billion ISK worth yesterday... ish. Now I have a lot of illegal goods to sell—and many buyers to connect with. Selling is the real challenge with space drugs.

A Small Drug Market

You'd think in a game like EVE Online there would be a big underground market. Alas, the market for boosters seems pretty small. It appears to be centered in Jita. Outside of The Forge the volume for most boosters is miniscule; Meaningless.

Barrier to Entry

As far as market segments go, boosters do have on saving grace; The barrier of entry is higher than, say, Damage Control ii's. My margins are decent—and there's not a ton of competition in the market screen. I never find people 0.01ing on cooldown.

I Smuggle Because it's Convenient.

I can't say I would ever be a dedicated booster smuggler. The idea of it is fun, but I only do it because it fits into my general speculative hauling strategies: Move tiny, high cost goods from highsec/lowsec to trade hubs. I'm already in the neighborhood so boosters are nearly free ISK.

However—if I already had my current data scraping tools, but only had 30 minutes a day for trading? I may target the booster market and do one run per day.

How to Smuggle

So how do you smuggle in EVE Online? I won't tell you; It'll be more fun once you figure it out. I will say that it's pretty simple, and although I don't understand all the mechanics of it—I've never been caught by customs because I'm pretty careful.

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