Tried something odd.


EmperorSteele

 

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Hellos all. Had a crazy idea and went with it the other night. Please bear with me as I explain. Recently I noticed that salvage prices redside seem to be rather high and supplies rather low. Now normally this would be a nearly ideal situation for me as I don't really use IOs and sell salvage and recipies. But like I said, I got a wild hair of an idea and went with it on a whim.

It occurred to me that what was ideal for me might be a serious barrier for those new to the game and crafting/market system. And noticing this, I decided to do something.

Up to this point, this is all based on fairly basic observations and opinions that anyone might have done. What isn't is the resources I recalled I could bring to bear. Seems I never really converted my top 100 VG's base salvage into brainstorms, let alone brainstorms into salvage. Over about a 27 hour period I posted about 700 pieces of common invention salvage onto the BM, all listed at 1 inf.

Ended up making over 3 million and stopped when I sensed demand stopping.

Mostly just wanted to post a record, but comments and questions are welcome.


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You know what's sad?

Half the lowbie sales you made were probably grabbed by flippers who are now relisting that salvage at a higher cost.

Otherwise, nice way to make 3 mil =)


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Obviously the solution is to list another 700 common salvage! Choke, flippers, choke!

ETA: The way I did this sort of thing, the time I did it, was to put one level range in the vault and keep the other two on my person, and when I filled up my own storage I went and put it into Wents (or the BM), but not for sale. If it's oversupplied, toss it out. I think I ended up with about 15 "stacks" going- when they got to or near 10, I listed them for sale. It's not a perfect way to handle salvage, because you don't have enough different slots to store everything, but it seemed to cut my trips from the base to Wents significantly.


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Opposite side of the coin...

If I get an item that sells slowly due to poor supply or poor demand, I delete it. I won't wait a week for 1m. And I'm not running to the shop to make 20k.

I don't think what the OP did, or what I did, make any difference.

Though, I do understand the "which raindrop caused the flood" argument can be applied.


 

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You could farm AE content redside and use your tickets to roll common salvage, you'll get a lot trust me lol


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Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
Obviously the solution is to list another 700 common salvage! Choke, flippers, choke!
Oh I will at some point. I have over 2000 brainstorms left and more salvage left in the racks. In addition I rarely delete toons, so several of them still had a full dish of E-chips this superbowl sunday.


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Originally Posted by Postagulous View Post
Opposite side of the coin...

If I get an item that sells slowly due to poor supply or poor demand, I delete it. I won't wait a week for 1m. And I'm not running to the shop to make 20k.
Actually, my assumption is this is a fairly common practice. Used to be I wouldn't even check stuff like Kinetic Weapons redside. They were just the 1st thing chucked if I was on a SF and needed room. Pretty soon I'll be back on that bandwagon.


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Originally Posted by Santorican View Post
You could farm AE content redside and use your tickets to roll common salvage, you'll get a lot trust me lol
While I'm not much for crying DOOOOM(!), I'm thinking that the ease of AE tickets may have started supplanting the market as a supply source for common salvage. Thus resulting in the lower supply on the market. But that's just a guess on my part.


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