Ebil Marketeers: How many characters do you marketeer with?

This is exactly what it says on the tin. For the Ebil Marketeers out there, how many characters do you marketeer with? One? A few? A server full?

Do you find yourself earning all the inf. you could possibly want with just a single character, or are you reaching truly obscene amounts of income with a (not so) small army of inf. generating, salty-tear-drinking, sob inducing financial behemoths?

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Nearly all of my toons do SOME kind of marketeering. It varies. I have one who does very little but sell enhancements I crafted on toons I was actively playing, I have a couple who do very little but marketeer, I have others who mostly play but marketeer a little on the side.

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I marketeer to some extent with every character I have, unless I'm pursuing an experimental data point (as with my concept stalker who's seeing how much inf you make just running a straight line to 50, doing nothing but selling drops).

Other than that, I use however many characters I need for this or that scheme. For the 88s I use....5? I'm making the bulk of my inf selling crafted junk these days and the relatively slow turnover means I need quite a few slots. I farm MA with my fire tank who finds 'good' recipes to craft, I buy ten stacks to craft with my ar/dev and dump everything in base storage for my three 'slot mules' to pick up and list.

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The bulk of my stuff is done on two characters - one does pretty standard buy & craft stuff. The other collects rare drops that I email to it while playing other toons. When they pile up she crafts them and sells them, or puts them in storage if I want to keep them.

I mostly only do that with rares though. On every other character I have, I will craft worthwhile drops, or just list the recipes and salvage I get. I don't think of that so much as marketeering though. I guess technically it is, but it's just a natural part of playing the game as far as I'm concerned.

Then I have a whole ton of alts that are able to get assigned to do odd jobs when I come up with some wacky idea. Right now they're mostly doing seasonal work.

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Some 15-20 characters. Most of my 50s and some of my lower characters. Since I tend to start IOing out characters in the early 30's, ones that I'm working on probably don't have the market slots to do a lot of marketing. But level 50 toons, they're not using those slots for anything else. ^_^

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I mostly marketeer on one or two characters although any character I'm playing will at the very least sell thier drops and occasionally do a bit of casual flipping.

Their main exception is when I'm working on Field Crafter I often use spare characters to sell off the excess IOs.

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12.

Each plays with billions

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As with some of the other folks, ALL of my toons indulge in some marketeering
so that they're self-sustaining throughout their levelling career.

Apart from that general case, I have a handful who are primarily marketeers
once they're done levelling up. These are spread around into various activities;
crafters, flippers, merit producers, etc.


Regards,
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For every seller who leaves the market dirty stinkin' rich,
there's a buyer who leaves the market dirty stinkin' IOed. - Obitus.

Currently 22 toons each with 500m-1.8b on hand and more in bids/sales.

I craft twice a day, though not every toon has niches that turn over that fast.

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I am an ebil markeeter and will steal your moneiz ...correction stole your moneiz. I support keeping the poor down because it is impossible to make moneiz in this game.

My Sonic/Sonic Corr on Infinity and my Kat/Regen on Pinnacle are my big movers and shakers. Casual Player, my level 27 Warshade on Triumph, takes care of mid-level stuff.

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I have 2 in the 88's and another 3 in my alt sg's.

Now that I'm back to work and with school starting soon for me I'm gonna be seriously limited on time. sigh damn rl....

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I tend to marketeer w/ all my 50s and any current levelling toons. I moved a few 50s to different servers, these do nothing but marketeer, but they're mostly tied up in low turnover, high reward areas: lowball bids on good stuff mostly, but some work oddball niches with extremely low turnover and extremely high mark-up. When they hit the inf. cap they gleemail 500mil to newish characters on my 'home' server. They also gleemail crafted IOs to my home server when overfull of inventory, where they're sold by newer characters or socked into the base racks. I dont check on them that often, usually every 4-10 days.

Most of my active toons are merely selling drops from playing, or bidding on their own wishlists. But I usually find niches when looking for stuff, and I throw bids out whenever I see a niche that is not being actively bought and sold, I never leave market slots unused. It's a total of about 30 characters, each w/ about 700mil - 2 bil in ready cash.

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Currently one, dedicated to a specific market strategy.
I used to also employ another earning strategy and used a different toon for it.

I don't generate massive amounts of inf, but my needs are modest. I create a toon and play them to 50. At around level 35 I blow all their merits on random rolls and IO them. I only have two toons purpled.

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All of them. When I am done playing a particular toon the last thing I do for the night is hit the market and play it. Some days I do this with multiple toons.

I have one toon that logs on daily (or more) to check the markets and marketeer. It's my main so it sees play time too.

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Whatever I'm playing, I do a little bit of marketing on that character- 0 to 100 million or so, just to be self-sufficient and let me make that first Hero Merit.

Plain simple marketeers? Two. Maybe three right now, because I looted one of my active characters when the 88's went Winter Solstice Crazy. I don't know if I got that inf back.

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Properly with 4.

Others if they've done some AE or TFs will probably bronze roll a stupid number of tickets and roll a load of merits when they hit 50, and I'll use a load of rarely played toons to craft and sell the proceeds via gleemail.

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Four or five. A couple are 'gatherers' or future crafters dedicated to building a stock of recipes who spend their time bidding low on the recipes I want. Another two are my active crafters who have acquired a nice set of recipes from the previous life as gatherers who actively crafting and selling those recipes and acquiring new ones as niches rise and fall. The last is my master crafter who is maxed on slots and is just an inf machine for most of my higher end stuff and seeds the gatherers and builds a stash for whatever my current project is as it matures. I do a little selling here and there with whoever my current project is, but nothing too serious.

Cheers

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I had been using three characters. Two of those were active characters that I was playing every day, and one was a character I no longer had interest in playing that I used as a dedicated marketeer. I was kinda stuck in my pre-gleemail mindset of earning the inf on the character that's going to spend it. If/when I start back up, I'm thinking that I'll just use two or three inactive characters as dedicated marketeers.

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By my definition of 'marketeering'*: 0

By the mass anti-market forces' definition of 'marketeering'**: all of them

* - flipping, buying recipes and salvage just to craft and sell for a profit. I did this 3 years ago for a while when I was working on my 22 Field Crafters. I also used to craft common IOs for profit like End Mods but haven't done that in over 2 years.

** - selling my drops in the market and buying what I want for my characters from the market.

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total kick to the gut

This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.

I marketeer with 2 toons, inactive 50s, but make most of my money from selling ticket rolls on my farmer, about 1bill every 2 days ony *cries*, which i dont think is actually marketeering. (or is it?)

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By my definition of marketeering (which is pretty close to SwellGuy's): One, when I actually need several billion inf for something. None when I don't.

Crafting and selling drops and buying stuff: All of them.

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Once I get to about a billion and change on a guy I stop worrying about marketeering at all except with whatever Im playing. When I need inf for a build Ive found that 4 is my comfort zone. Then Im buying and marketeering at the same time....usually each character will pick a couple of high inf items and get to work flipping or crafting to make the purchases neglible on my bank account. During the 88 run I was doing the same and paying out to the 88s every week.

I also dont seed any my guys. With the current craze all it takes is getting one of a host of pieces of salvage and suddenly Im off and running. Ill take whatever thousands Ive earned by level 10 and place bids on common level 45 IO recipes and sell them a vendor. This vulturing will take me into the millions and usually I cross the 100 million line a few days after via buying and crafting.

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About 10. 6 are sellers and the rest are gatherers/crafters.

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All of them.

I simply don't deal in lots of time-sensitive wares and I lowball the crap out of things.

This way, when I come back to a toon in a week or a month or whenever, there's merchandise and completed sales there. Most of my toons that are NOT brand-spanking new have at least 10 and 50 million sitting on them if they're not actively played. Toons that I play more frequently and are my main marketeers have successively higher sums resident and more expensive merchandise.

Note: I very RARELY twink.

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