Ebil Marketeers: How many characters do you marketeer with?

I recently re-subbed and played over the holidays, and found I don't even need to play the market anymore. Just play the game, sell your drops, and Influence seems to rain from the sky.

There's been a lot of interesting replies spread across the spectrum, and I appreciate all of them.

A point has come up that I hadn't originally considered when I wrote the OP: What different people consider "marketeering". I suppose I had taken for granted that everyone would sell their drops on the market when, upon reflection, I know that can't possibly be the case. Whether a player doesn't like to use the market or just can't be bothered to, there are definitely those out there who, at best, vendor pretty much everything they get.

I suppose my definition of marketeering is closer to SwellGuy's. It involves making money from items that are already in the system, without generating items of your own to sell. These days I dabble in it, though I usually make my money with merits or tickets. I enjoy crafting and playing the market mini-game, so the lure is always there, heh.

I usually marketeer on one to three characters depending on how volatile the market seems at the time and how lazy I am. Currently I'm very lazy so I'm marketeering with just one character for about 150mil/day level of profits. Basically I'm just building up wealth because I have no intentions to get a new IO build on any of my alts any time soon. Well, I do have one project but all the bids are already in place and I'm just waiting.

Usually I marketeer with one character long enough that it gets to two billion and then move on to another. I realize it would be more effective to do this on my main who has larger inventory and WW capacity available, but until he's done with day jobs I won't be marketeering with him. Likely not even then because I like to rotate my ebil around

My marketeering is done on a single character. The rest generally just get gleemailed inf to make builds.

I marketeer at some level with all my characters EXCEPT my primary levelling toon at the moment (they are selling drops) and my main (who also sells drops).

I have 14 active marketeering toons on Freedom which I log every 3rd day. I have 1 on Freedom which is logged every day (its a really good niche).

I have 108 toons across other servers and on Freedom which are dedicated to low-bids or whatever to do much slower marketing.

I keep an excel spreadsheet listing of what I am craft-to-selling on toons or what I am low-ball bidding on. If I see that something I have on low-ball bid has really spiked, I log that toon and list the stuff I have accumulated for sale.

Its easy to see what you should be lowballing alot of the time.....for example, I don't even know how many of those achilles heels procs I picked up during the great 1-20 mass playing at GR launch. I got 218 of them at an avg price of 753 inf. I have already sold 50 or so of them at an avg of 25M inf each. I'm still selling off pet damage uniques from blueside pre-merger too.

Marketeering is something I at least do lightly with almost all my toons because its far and away the easiest way to have whatever build you want.

There was once a time where I "managed" the market bids on several accounts in my tight knit SG of real-life friends. I marketeered heavily with about 90 characters, 40+ of which were level 50s. A good amount of these bids were lowball sit-and-wait, of which I checked once every 2 weeks, but there were also 10 characters on my account that were checked daily. I log into the SG bins and am still surprised at how much high end stuff we have sitting around, and then there's what's actually socketed on characters...

I currently manage just my 12 characters.

This probably disqualifies me from the label of ebil marketeer, but I market with 1 toon at a time and probably 50-75% of the time or more I don't marketeer at all. It's usually the toon I'm eqiuping marketeering for himself, although sometimes I just use my one toon who has 22 market slots which also allows the toon i'm leveling up to use his slots to dump slavage/recipes.

Five at the moment. I mostly use lvl 50 characters (more slots) who I'm not actively playing, as the actively playing ones need to have slots free to dump their stuff when I play them. When I have higher Inf needs, such as putting a couple of builds together, I sometimes use a couple of nonplayed mid level characters to do lowball bids on some lower turnover/higher margin items, so they can just get checked a few times a month. Either way, I have to stick to items that don't fluctuate too much, as I sometimes have several days go by when I can't log in at all, and a week go by when I don't get more then 5-10 minutes a couple of times during the week.

Two on each side, was only gona do one on each side but as it happens and my dumb luck I found niches with two other toons years ago that they just keep working durning good and bad times

All my toons make use of the market, mostly to craft and sell drops. My latest experiment was a Praetorian brute who leveled to 50 doing nothing but solo tips while crafting and selling lvl 20 Miracle procs with hero merits. Dinged 50 with 1.3bil after 6 weeks. Average sale ranged from 130mil pre-i19 to over 200mil during the respec-spree.

Mine all buy and sell to some degree... Only one (my main/badge-monkey/crafter) is really dedicated to it.