How much do you earn from Car Import/Export?

[Jerome]

I came up with some calculations to get the average earnings for doing car import/export missions. I'll also link you guys to a guide I have published. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=818071348

Import/Export Profittability Calculation

Assuming you have equal chances of getting standard, mid randge, and top end vehicles and assuming you can:

• Source one car within 10 minutes
  
• Export cars with friends within 5 minutes.
  
• Lose about $10k total for importing repairs & exporting commission loss for each vehicle.

4*((($30,000+$50,000+$80,000)/3)-$10,000) + 3* $5,000 = $188,333

NOTE: This is for selling only to special dealers with high end mods, you can use the values on the profit table to calculate for exporting cars without mods or with just standard mods.

• In 40 minutes you'll have four cars in your warehouse.
  
• In 20 minutes you'll have taken turns to export four cars with three other CEO friends and sell for $173,333. You'll have had three turns as associate and receive $5,000 each time.
  
• In 60 minutes you'll have earned a total of $188,333.

Some fun things

Without incurring repair fees, and commission losses for exporting:

• You can get $135k per hour if you were unlucky to get four standard vehicles.
  
• You can get $215k per hour if you delivered four mid range vehicles.
  
• You can get $335k per hour if you were lucky to source four top end vehicles.

Variables that can highly affect the total earnings are:

• Chance of getting standard,mid range, or top end car.
  
• Average time to complete car import mission.
  
• Average repair costs and commission losses.

As the time to complete car sourcing missions varies, I'd appreciate if you can comment with how much time you usually complete these missions, how much repair cost you had to pay, and how much commission loss you incurred.

[Calvin 157 natalino]

I just have i little problem,when i sell 4 top cars,the game show"boss payment 400k" but i just earn 90-100k.i really don't undersatnd this

[Diablerie]

heh I have to adjust those figures for playing solo, no one I know wants to make peanuts helping me boost and sell cars. I don't blame them either.

[Alpacalypse]

Originally posted by E Z I O M A R I N H E I R O:

I just have i little problem,when i sell 4 top cars,the game show"boss payment 400k" but i just earn 90-100k.i really don't undersatnd this

It can only show one instance of gaining money at a time. If you need to see how much you got, check transaction logs from Maze Bank on your phone.

[Calvin 157 natalino]

Originally posted by Alpacalypse:

Originally posted by E Z I O M A R I N H E I R O:

I just have i little problem,when i sell 4 top cars,the game show"boss payment 400k" but i just earn 90-100k.i really don't undersatnd this

It can only show one instance of gaining money at a time. If you need to see how much you got, check transaction logs from Maze Bank on your phone.

Yes i saw my transitions,and dind't had the res of my money,a guy said me that this is normal,is a server bug,but it's happen every time.

[Glorbo Fruttodrillo]

Sorry that this is little of topic but is it worth buying the import/export missions or do I stick with the crates?

[Junior]

Originally posted by dam_devilbg:

Sorry that this is little of topic but is it worth buying the import/export missions or do I stick with the crates?

mc + crates seem the best combo still since mc is idle and when u wait u do crates. however the car can be more fun than crates. if u want a bit of fun in the grind.

[Jerome]

Originally posted by dam_devilbg:

Sorry that this is little of topic but is it worth buying the import/export missions or do I stick with the crates?

Depends on how much you've played with crates. If you already had over a hundred hours with it you might want to try doing something different. Even if you had little time with crates, it would always be welcome to have some variation in routines. While getting some passive income from MC business, I import & export cars, while exporting is on cooldown I'd be buying crates.

If its totally about the income, CEO crates is at an average $200,000/hour while car import/export is at $188,333 or more because top end cars seems to be more common than standard and mid range. For ease calculation purposes I just assumed they had equal probability of appearing. It may actually be higher than $200,000 if we can just get proof that top end cars really appear more often than both standard and mid range.

[Jerome]

Originally posted by Diablerie:

heh I have to adjust those figures for playing solo, no one I know wants to make peanuts helping me boost and sell cars. I don't blame them either.

Have you tried joining GTACartel? Have you figured out how much you get if you play solo all the time? I actually did most of the importing and exporting solo but had some time when my friends were online to help me, and this is where I got the data I used to come up with an estimate on how much can be earned with a team.

I also didn't try to compute the income for playing solo because the 20 minute cooldown will surely limit one person from offloading incoming vehicle cargos in the warehouse. I'd be exporting one vehicle and then source another, when I get back to the warehouse; exporting would still be on cooldown for over 10-12min. This is when I do two crate runs, one for a large warehouse and one for the medium one.

[Akadai]

Don't forget there's a bonus for collections. You get an extra 35k-50k if you export a collection (button at the top of the export screen to see collections)

I average around 2-5k in repairs, only gone up to 10k once due to bad luck. I'd rather be boosting cars than doing crates. Don't think I'll ever do crates ever again, especially when boosting cars is much much easier solo when compared to soloing crates. Most of the missions seem quick, cargobob transport one is probably the worst I've seen out of them so far

I have a pretty active crew, so we all help each other out. Another thing to consider, and I'm sure others might figure this out eventually... you can steal other CEO's cars. If you have 4 CEOs doing a steal mission, and have them give them up to just 1, that CEO gets 4 cars. My crew haven't tested this yet, but probably will sometime over the weekend

[Jerome]

Originally posted by Akadai:

Don't forget there's a bonus for collections. You get an extra 35k-50k if you export a collection (button at the top of the export screen to see collections)

I average around 2-5k in repairs, only gone up to 10k once due to bad luck. I'd rather be boosting cars than doing crates. Don't think I'll ever do crates ever again, especially when boosting cars is much much easier solo when compared to soloing crates. Most of the missions seem quick, cargobob transport one is probably the worst I've seen out of them so far

I have a pretty active crew, so we all help each other out. Another thing to consider, and I'm sure others might figure this out eventually... you can steal other CEO's cars. If you have 4 CEOs doing a steal mission, and have them give them up to just 1, that CEO gets 4 cars. My crew haven't tested this yet, but probably will sometime over the weekend

I didn't forget about the bonus collections, I already mentioned it in the guide. I already sourced almost 70 cars and have yet to complete collections that has more than two cars. Just like how they computed the CEO crates income, they didn't include special cargos for the computation because they are pretty rare. Do you have data on the chance of getting a complete collection?

I also average around 2-5k in repairs and I used a generous ~10k for the computation. Good for us that we can enjoy boosting cars instead of hauling in crates!

You didn't mention how quick (on the average) you complete the import missions. Was I generous about the 10min average, I even think there'd be a lot of people who can do it at less than 8min average.

I never thought about your idea about pooling in all four cars. With this I think you'd be able to sell for every round of import missions. Seems brilliant!

[Akadai]

I would say 10 minutes is a good average, sounds about right to me. I've probably done a few faster than that, but some have taken a while as well

I haven't actually completed any collections yet, just a few that are half completed. I just end up exporting the cars that aren't part of collections, and save the ones that are. Figure I'll complete them eventually

As for selling, most of my members are pretty careful (most of the time...) so repair costs are minimal, haven't done enough sells though to quite give an average on that just yet

[BargŁe ❀]

I find this commision value really stupid compared to the total market value of the cars....

like standard range worth 600k or around that.. So the buyer would need to pay something cloe to that to buy the car but the CEo who sources and delivers the STOLEN vehicle gets like 30k like where would the rest of the buyers money go its a illegal business....

why would the ceo not get the total market price of the vehicle and have that cut with the assitant and mechanic who are the only two employees.....

So when You seel a Top Range car worth around 1 million to a buyer they are only paying 100k to the person who stol the vehicel for them modded it and delivered it to there house so they can be paid 1/10 (one tenth) of the actual cars value and the other 900k just dissapears.....

Is there something im missing or?

[Reina Orikasa]

Originally posted by BargŁe ❀:

I find this commision value really stupid compared to the total market value of the cars....

like standard range worth 600k or around that.. So the buyer would need to pay something cloe to that to buy the car but the CEo who sources and delivers the STOLEN vehicle gets like 30k like where would the rest of the buyers money go its a illegal business....

why would the ceo not get the total market price of the vehicle and have that cut with the assitant and mechanic who are the only two employees.....

So when You seel a Top Range car worth around 1 million to a buyer they are only paying 100k to the person who stol the vehicel for them modded it and delivered it to there house so they can be paid 1/10 (one tenth) of the actual cars value and the other 900k just dissapears.....

Is there something im missing or?

Did you really think that R* would let people earn millions that easily?

[Kobi Blade]

I make +500k per hour by doing Warehouse at the sime time during cooldowns, and 1M per hour when Warehouse full.

[Bumidek]

Fun fact: You can force source only top range cars by having one of each standard and mid range cars already sourced and some top range cars not sourced.
Fun fact 2: you can use cargobob to export each single vehicle and source most of them easily and the rest with some bit of trick).
So I always make 240k per hour by playing solo and not rushing anything.