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Process that needs a name

Dechs Kaison

By Dechs Kaison,
Posted on: 2011-01-04 17:49 in The Market and Inventions

 

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What do you call it when the Wentworth's fee on something is more than you spent buying the item, buying the salvage, and crafting the item? This mostly happens on level 50 stuff that you buy for 55k, craft for 490K, and sell for 10 million. I have done it on something that sold for 50 million, though, and it wasn't a typo either.

There should be a badge for it, only I don't know how you'd actually keep track.

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I had "One with the Nao" come to mind, but that could easily be describing the act of running to the market and spending whatever it takes to buy what you want right then.

Perhaps "Feeding the Nao" or something to that effect.

Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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"Step 3: Profit!"

I'm hoping to find a name for the opposite phenomenon, when people spend millions for a recipe and salvage and crafting fees, offer it at 1 inf, and sell it for a multi-million inf loss.

Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a *real* useful invention. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...t-sarcasm.html

 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
I had "One with the Nao" come to mind, but that could easily be describing the act of running to the market and spending whatever it takes to buy what you want right then.

Perhaps "Feeding the Nao" or something to that effect.
"Zen and Nao"?

As to the question of the thread, may I suggest "Bucket Dropping". As in, the crafting costs are a drop in the bucket compared to the item's true sales potential. Ex, "I bucket dropped a handful of __________s the other day and used the profits to completely outfit my entire server with SOs."

Alternate terms may include "Bucket Crafting," "Bucketeering," or simply "Bucketing".

 

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I call it a Bargain Score.

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