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Osayidan wrote on 2010-06-03 19:04
Back when there was advanced play I used to randomly amuse myself with the dye economy, buying every dye I could find on housing bellow a certain price, then resell them all for a few K more. It brings in lots of 'profit' but not by a huge margin, since on average each dye was making 2k profit, with the occasional much higher one from uninformed people selling them so cheap. It was still fun though.
I also deal a lot with event items, randomly taking them in and out of the market until I'm satisfied with offers. Those take long but are usually well worth it, for example buying 20 purple LLBs from the Price event for ~75k each and reselling them for 300k each over a half year period of time. Some other items are also really hard to get sensible offers on, but when it comes to that I'm probably one of the most patient people (been taking amazing caps in and out of the market for ages now but haven't sold one... but some day I will D:<)
I don't do very much production for profit yet since I need to rank all the skills first. But I'll probably shift more towards that when I r1 potion/herb/weaving. I consider this a different form of merchanting though, since you buy materials, transform them then sell them for more, instead of just buying and reselling the same thing.
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anokarlo wrote on 2010-06-03 19:08
I wouldn't say that I'm a merchant but I probably made a few mills from buying things and selling them for a higher price. For example: Bought dyes for 90kea, resold for 140kea.
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starpaw7 wrote on 2010-06-03 19:14
Before I was kicked off I would farm Holy Water, even just selling to friends for lower prices is enough to cover the expensive repairs :tea:
Quote from anokarlo;53795:
I wouldn't say that I'm a merchant but I probably made a few mills from buying things and selling them for a higher price. For example: Bought dyes for 90kea, resold for 140kea.
That's why I never buy dyes :awesome:
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-06-04 00:25
I sell 1K arrows at 4.5K just to lower prices a bit.
But now I'm in semi hiatus.
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Majikaru wrote on 2010-06-04 02:02
Since ingot and herb prices are pretty good on JP Cichol server, and I have a good enough thunder rank to go rafting...
I raft for both. I get somewhere between 100~150k worth of herbs and 60~90k worth of ingots per run, which isn't bad at all, considering I use less than a stack of mana 100s per run.