That's useful. One carping point: I frequently sell in the market at minimal prices. I know I could make more inf selling at stores or in the base. It's not "Stupidity" that causes me to do this: I'm not trying to maximize my characters' inf. I'd rather keep the salvage and recipes in the game, keeping them available for players who might be able to use them and helping to limit prices, than take them out of the game and maximize my own profit.
This is a moneymaker. I made 30K in 10 minutes just by buying at 10 and selling at 1k. Thanks.
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There are certain enhancements which have limited appeal -- you can buy them for cheap and sell them at the stores for a substantial profit. These include Confuse, immobilize, range, Disorient, Interrupt, and some of the buff/debuff.
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That's useful. One carping point: I frequently sell in the market at minimal prices. I know I could make more inf selling at stores or in the base. It's not "Stupidity" that causes me to do this: I'm not trying to maximize my characters' inf. I'd rather keep the salvage and recipes in the game, keeping them available for players who might be able to use them and helping to limit prices, than take them out of the game and maximize my own profit.
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I'm in this camp as well. What I find doubly hilarious is that I can sell every bit of salvage and recipes that I pick up from 1-12 and end up with enough inf to fund a complete purchase of recipes and salvage for lvl 15 IOs that will set me until I want to move to lvl 25 IOs at lvl 22.
Oh... and that's selling every item at 119 inf each.
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Made 100K today selling the drops on my level 6 Fire blaster. There's no secret to it. Sell it if you don't want it = money in your pocket.
Or, you could just get to 50, playing and having fun, and get millions per hour just killing stuff. Just a thought. I made millions per hour doing this sort of thing with common IOs for the first day or two I9 was out, but with these smaller amounts, I don't think this arbitrage is worth it.
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Or, you could just get to 50, playing and having fun, and get millions per hour just killing stuff. Just a thought. I made millions per hour doing this sort of thing with common IOs for the first day or two I9 was out, but with these smaller amounts, I don't think this arbitrage is worth it.
[/ QUOTE ]This system is really only for making enought money to finance pre-SO toons with no 50 to bankroll them. Yes, a level 50 can make many times this in minutes. But the point is that it's a system for people who don't have 50s to be able to afford the SOs/25+ IOs that will take them there.
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I've been loading up on level 48-50 regular enhancements for 100-7000. They sell for far higher than that, and the bidding is fast and easy. No need to compare market values or anything.
Admittedly, it's too slow to really make big $. But it's a great thing to do just before your trip to the store. An extra 200k in pocket after a trip is pretty nice.
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I've been loading up on level 48-50 regular enhancements for 100-7000. They sell for far higher than that, and the bidding is fast and easy. No need to compare market values or anything.
Admittedly, it's too slow to really make big $. But it's a great thing to do just before your trip to the store. An extra 200k in pocket after a trip is pretty nice.
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If i cant make at least a mil on a recipe i TRY to sell i for 6 inf. I end up deleting to taking to npc so many recipes that just clutter my BM slots.
I whole heartedly encourage folks to buy up my crap andgive me my auction spaces back.
I used to sell all my salvage for 6 as well, buut some of it just sits there for so long that I end up deleting it.
I've tried advertising in broadcast that I have a whole load of FREE salvage. No one ever volunteers to take it off my hands.
Thats the definitely the right price for turning aprofit w/ it.
So buy my junk and make money w/ it. Take my give-a-ways and make some money. I need the room for more valuable things.
please, pease, please
If you already know that you are going to need to respec your character, go to Wentworth's and buy ten L45-50 IOs. Interrupt time, Confuse Duration, and Intangibility are generally available cheaply (500-1000 each). Put them in your character's Enhancement tray, then sell them as part of the respec. You'll earn an extra 500,000 or so on the respec.
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If i cant make at least a mil on a recipe i TRY to sell i for 6 inf. I end up deleting to taking to npc so many recipes that just clutter my BM slots.
I whole heartedly encourage folks to buy up my crap andgive me my auction spaces back.
I used to sell all my salvage for 6 as well, buut some of it just sits there for so long that I end up deleting it.
I've tried advertising in broadcast that I have a whole load of FREE salvage. No one ever volunteers to take it off my hands.
Thats the definitely the right price for turning aprofit w/ it.
So buy my junk and make money w/ it. Take my give-a-ways and make some money. I need the room for more valuable things.
please, pease, please
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You do know you can sell that stuff to a vendor, right?
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But vendors dont give badges for selling your junk to them 
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If i cant make at least a mil on a recipe i TRY to sell i for 6 inf. I end up deleting to taking to npc so many recipes that just clutter my BM slots.
I whole heartedly encourage folks to buy up my crap andgive me my auction spaces back.
I used to sell all my salvage for 6 as well, buut some of it just sits there for so long that I end up deleting it.
I've tried advertising in broadcast that I have a whole load of FREE salvage. No one ever volunteers to take it off my hands.
Thats the definitely the right price for turning aprofit w/ it.
So buy my junk and make money w/ it. Take my give-a-ways and make some money. I need the room for more valuable things.
please, pease, please
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You do know you can sell that stuff to a vendor, right?
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Or he can just delete it, which is practically the same if you already have more money than you can spend. Or you can sell it cheap in the hopes that it will be of use to someone else--but then some people will refer to that kindness as "stupidity".
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I can usually buy Halloween parts on my server for 10-20k in the morning, then turn back around and sell them for 40-80k that afternoon.
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Just a note, you may have been aware of this but the market is cross-server. This sentence implies that its separate on each server.
And to join in with a couple of others, for some characters it makes sense to sell all your salvage for 1 Inf. Even a fairly pathetic lvl 50 farming character is pulling in 50-100 Inf per *second*. A marketing character may have 5 minutes to pull six stacks of arcane salvage and relist it for an expected profit (over the next 24 hours) of a million a stack. The last thing either of them wants is to have to take several minutes to run to a store, zone in, sell salvage for 250 Inf, zone out, and run back to the market or mission. That common and uncommon salvage is either selling in seconds or getting deleted to free up market slots.
Plus dumping salvage cheap brings both direct (selling gets a badge which gets more market slots) and indirect (my lowbie alts on other servers want to be able to arbitrage salvage for starting capital) benefits.
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Or he can just delete it, which is practically the same if you already have more money than you can spend. Or you can sell it cheap in the hopes that it will be of use to someone else--but then some people will refer to that kindness as "stupidity".
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I also dont pay less than 999 for a piece of salvage. I appreciate the ability to walk up to bm and get anything i need any hour of the day. So I reward folks who take the time to keep me supplied with all the salvage I need.
However my main toon atm doesnt have much crafting left to do.
[u]Making Money at Low Levels, or How I Made My First Million[u]
by Top Ramen
While many players have level 50 characters with several million infl to spare for their lower level characters, not all of us have been around long enough to accumulate that much. So, here's a guide for a casual player to make their first million by level 14, if not lower, without farming.
Part A: The Stupidity of Others
You can start this part with as low as 1000-3000 influence. This first step relies on the stupidity of the masses(always a safe bet). At the auction houses, some salvage/recipes actually sell for less than you can sell them to the NPC stores! Some salvage, you can buy for as little as 10 infl, and sell for 250. This may not seem like a lot at first, but if you buy a stack of 30... This makes you 7200 infl per trip to the store!
After you have made a couple of round trips with the common salvage, you can move on to uncommon, which can often be bought for 100-500, and sold for 1000. This makes you up to 27K per trip. You see how this starts to add up?
I usually make a lot of bids right before I sign off for the day, and make my runs first thing when I sign on for the day. Anyone who's bought something from the market knows it takes time to get items at the price you want. Going back and forth from the store can be a boring process, so I make the runs while watching TV.
Once you have about 60-100K infl, you can move on to Part B
Part B: Playing the Market
Prices in the Market fluctuate, everyone has seen this. With a little bit of savvy and knowledge, it is easy to take advantage of this fact and make infl off of it.
First off, make a note of the price of a certain piece or type of salvage or recipe. I personally use the Halloween salvage items. If possible, check several times a day. Make a note of the minimum you see it sell for, and the maximum. Once you have a pretty good idea of the price range, follow the #1 rule of the stock market: never trust your money to a convicted felon. No, j/k: buy low and sell high. I can usually buy Halloween parts on my server for 10-20k in the morning, then turn back around and sell them for 40-80k that afternoon.
Check the prices 3-5 times a day. I check before work, at lunch, in the afternoon, the evening, and before I go to bed. It only takes 5 minutes to do. Buy low, sell high. Within a couple of days, you too can have a million influence.
Final Thoughts
This process has served me well for my 3 lower level characters. I have plenty of influence for DO, and various invention enhancements to fill up all my slots.
Any comments or constructive criticism is welcome. This is my first guide, hope it was helpful to the newbies.