My candy cane scheme worked :D
By
BashfulBanshee,
Posted on: 2009-12-19 15:21 in The Market and Inventions
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Er, grats? I'm not sure if I'm patient enough to wait an entire year to make 350-400M. But I do have to give you props for patience and follow through.
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Originally Posted by Clebstein
During the last Winter Event, I made some decent low-level money selling candy canes (just a couple million on a few different lowbies). After the event, I wondered: Are people actually stupid enough to pay high amounts for candy canes, even though they're now useless?! And to my surprise people were buying them...for about 10k.
...So with my high level characters I bought hundreds of candy canes to save up for this Winter Event, so I could pawn them off at ridiculous prices to the people who didn't feel like waiting/farming for candy canes. I managed to sell them off at 300k a piece a few weeks before the event started. Between my three characters I had buying them, I made about 350-400 million.  Which I'll soon be spending on buying THOUSANDS of candy canes to pawn off next year! If only they didn't limit buying/selling to 10 per stack......  |
Outstaning but like Fury I dont have the patience to wait a year.
Well, it's not like I was just waiting for the Inf, mostly I just wanted to see how much of a profit I could make that way. I was surprised to see no one posting about it, it seemed like kind of an obvious trick. Maybe that's why no one bothered to post on it?
if you make a profit and have fun, it's a good scheme.
I was flipping uncommons in the middle of Meow Fever- could have turned much larger profits doing other things, but I really enjoyed getting such ridiculous markups on once and future junk drops.
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I did the Candy Cane scheme myself. The only differance is that I kept mine becaus I decided that I wanted to spend them all. Oh well, back to crafting for fun and profit I guess.
Enjoy your day please.
I've been making fast cash by selling the drops from Lord Winter...no need to buy and save those stale candy canes. 
Good, man.
But I'm not doing a buy low sell high again. My 50 is drowning in helmets, gloves, and hami costumes from Halloween. They'll make me money,but they bug me just sitting there.
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Well, at least the Halloween salvage can be used at any time, unlike the candy canes.
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Originally Posted by Postagulous
Good, man.
But I'm not doing a buy low sell high again. My 50 is drowning in helmets, gloves, and hami costumes from Halloween. They'll make me money,but they bug me just sitting there. |
I am quite amazed that the candy canes have been so stable. Seldom selling for less than 75K or more than 100K (I have a buy at high as 10 million though, not sure what they thinking).
Its nice to come back from a successful Winter Lord run and collect 1 - 2 Million Influence for 15 minutes of work (especially for a level 15 character)
During the last Winter Event, I made some decent low-level money selling candy canes (just a couple million on a few different lowbies). After the event, I wondered: Are people actually stupid enough to pay high amounts for candy canes, even though they're now useless?! And to my surprise people were buying them...for about 10k.
...So with my high level characters I bought hundreds of candy canes to save up for this Winter Event, so I could pawn them off at ridiculous prices to the people who didn't feel like waiting/farming for candy canes. I managed to sell them off at 300k a piece a few weeks before the event started.
Between my three characters I had buying them, I made about 350-400 million.
Which I'll soon be spending on buying THOUSANDS of candy canes to pawn off next year! If only they didn't limit buying/selling to 10 per stack......