There problem is, jabes, but I went the mercenary for hire route rather than the freighter route. Not sure what the good buy low/sell high options are -- I'm rolling in pretty good money just killing pirates and selling off their pods to the prison system.
I'm V3N0M on the server, by the way. I can assist/help escort anyone interested out to Hamburg for their Banshee -- that path can be rough at times, and I had to corpse jump a few times in both my starter ship and in the Banshee itself on the way back.