Double XP and the market (again)

People got absolutely insane with the prices they were paying for generics on Saturday. I saw L30 recharge IOs hit 1M a few times, with fairly frequent forays to 500k.

Thankfully my Blaster DP hit 50 a few days before DXP, so i dodged half the price increases.

but dayumm obliterations lol!

Ok, so when's the next DXP Weekend? July-ish?

I had a couple of market toons that sold out their inventory, and I was pulling stuff out of my base. I have at least one IO table of stuff crafted just to sell, but I remembered that in another table I had a full set of level 50 Obliteration. I always thought I'd use it on another character, but I've since picked up the practice of slotting everything in the 30-35 level range. So I put the full set up for sale. I set the price at the high end for each piece. I wanted to get my money's worth.

They all sold in 24 hours. >.>

my grand investment strategy failed when I decided to slot about 2/3 of the things i bought as investments. my shield/ss tank is a total badass now though

Reall market madness should hit in the next few days as people who didnt get there DP to 50 before or early on in the weekend start wanting some of the fancy IO's.

I really didnt do much for the basic IO market this time around, my bins were full already and my 2nd marking SG is still being worked on.

between about 7 alts, I sold over a hundred lvl 35 End Mods @ $500K apiece over the weekend.

good job, you! I used to do that but I got tired. Glad someone's keeping the tradition alive.

I sold around 50 generic IOs that were a tossed salad of acc, heal, end mod, and end redux that we lvls 25-30.

Four lvl30 accs I sold for over 5 mil apiece (i think someone mistyped)

Crafted 16 thunderstrikes and sold over half of them

took profits and bought numinias (kept) and positrons (sold)


total profit: approx 80 mil

Piker compared to what you guys made but I spent almost all the weekend playing. I did some salvage flipping, sold some IO sets and some generic IO's like Damage and accuracy and made about 125 million. Pretty good for someone who just started marketing and mostly played. Heck, I didn't level my first 50 until nearly the end of DXP.

Also, I didn't prepare enough stuff for sale. My SG base isn't completely kitted out yet and I didn't start making stuff to sell until March 3rd. So while I didn't make a killing I am considering this a dry run for the next one. (which I suspect will be concurrent with GR being release. That may really change up the markets)

Sell your obliterations and positrons I don't mind paying retardedly high *** prices as I'm not a cheap ***, but it sucks when there are none to buy at all other than level 50s.

... so far I'm up around 200 million on my mild level 50 Thunderstrike/Crushing Impact flipping spree. 10 of each type, each side, selling for 5.1 million each. Most sold for 6 million, but a lot sold for 10. Actually, most didn't sell, but I expected that and that's why I marked them up ... umm, I don't remember how they do retail math, it's either 90% or 900%. Bought for half a million each.

Also, to my surprise, I flipped a few respecs. (Guys! I was just trying to store a couple billion! )

Right before double XP I bought about 100 Scirocco's Dervish(all types) since the recipes were selling for 500k-2M. Been making several times my initial investment and I still have about 30 to sell.

I also had about 75 Achilles' Heel procs since right before blasters got Rad blast that I am finally selling(I took an extended break from the game). That is one of the best investments I made in a long time.

Also had several miracle and numina uniques plus five sets of Oblits and Kinetic Combat and various other high end IOs here and there.

So far I've netted over 2.5 billion on my initial investment. So I'm happy.

*yawns*

In this day and age with such souces of inf, there's much more convinient ways to make inf.

So for DXP i can't even think what i made, i think i got a heca or something but i forgot. So yeah i decided to play the game as opposed to playing virtual ebay.

Was away for most of DXP, so just put a load of stuff up for sale in the buy for 1-2, craft for 1.5 sell for 20 type range and sold about 30 of them.

Was there a drop in purple prices this week? I was only monitoring Ragnaroks, but I'd under-bid on a spread of them and been sitting there, not quite getting them, for weeks. Prior to the 2xp weekend, I re-bid to just under the going rate. Right after the weekend I snapped up two of the pieces, but was surprised to see that the going rate had dropped 50 million on each (and filled up the "last 5" sales at that new low price, so it's wasn't a single low sale). I got a third set piece two days later, although the price on it didn't drop significantly.

Wasn't expecting them to drop in price. I guess I'm technically no worse off then if the price had stayed roughly steady and I'd bid what I did, but I do hate to feel like I overpaid by 50 million apiece AFTER waiting for weeks (the worst of both worlds!) :P