Q1 versus Q2

I just upgraded, like so many, my food company to a Q2 food company. I can't help but notice that a lot of people just buy Q1 food even though Q2 food is sometimes cheaper. I'm thinking of downgrading my company again.

That's one reason why I did not upgrade my company

i would upgrade anyway.
u always make around 100 food (atleast for me).
so its better to make q2 or q3 food, and people will buy it in the long run, because prices of q1 will rise.

I don't know. My stockpile is only getting bigger and bigger and people just keep buying the cheapest Q1 instead of the cheaper Q2 so if this keeps going on I'm just going to downgrade

its better to make people aware of it then downgrade.
just write an good article about it.

because not everyone checks
sometimes even Q5 is cheapest now at an HP / price

anyway, I buy a few Q1 every now and then to fill up the gaps between working...

For you, upgrading wasn't a very smart choice tbh. Now you have, you may as well keep it though.

Q1 + Q2 vs Q5

I check Q1, Q2 and Q3, if Q3 is more expensive then Q1 or Q2, then I don,t look further, maybe I should, but I also quitted buying food from the market since Im self-supplying :p

I've had to buy food recently, but not from Belgium. I usually do a quick check of Q1,2 and 5 and usually buy Q5 as it's cheaper in the US. Dunno about Belgium tho.

And serious why is everyone asking so much money for iron?
I always put it up at max 0.4BEF

It's capitalism dude...

But think logic

Highest iron prices = more people importing cheap iron, more people lower their price, untill prices are getting to non-profitable level and thne boom, crash

We have a high iron region and 99% import tax. Our companies can out compete any forigners that try to import iron. They therefore have the freedom to set the prices at whatever they want.

Also, the big hole in your logic there is assuming that people will still import iron to Belgium even when the price becomes unprofitable, they'd just leave as soon as it started falling, which would then reduce supply, and raise prices back up.