Congrats, and welcome to the dark side!
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Good for you!!!
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Ya know...every time I try to help someone out with the market, either in my SG or in broadcast or occassionally just in tells, I invariably get the response "If everybody marketeered, then you wouldnt be able to make any influence." or "Youre just saying that as a way to make even more influence" Its nice (as always) to see someone take the advice presented and make use of it.|
Originally Posted by McNum
A while ago I made a thread about what to do with a pile of Merits. I got a lot of nice feedback and started reading some of the marketeering guides, and long story short: It finally clicked. Got half a billion on one character to see if I could. Wasn't too hard, really. Still have that, actually. Anyway, I19 hit and I started playing my old FF Defender again. She was running SOs, and it was tme to upgrade. I then had a weird idea: Could I IO her out, yet make a profit off doing so? Short answer: Yes. It took pretty much all of December and some criminally low bids, but I got my Defender (almost) fully decked out in sets, with a 200 million profit. No purples, and a few generics here and there, but Rose is pretty awesome now. Got one outstanding bid on an HO still to go. How do you do this? Well... you need to understand flipping and crafting, and think a little out of the box. I need two times 5 Miracle for Aid Other and Self. That's still expensive on a limited budget, but... if I bought FIVE sets, I could craft and sell three and get the two of mine virtually for free. So I did. And I did that for a lot of the set IOs I bought. Because if I really wanted it, but was patient enough to craft it myself, someone else might also want it, but be less patient. This worked out far better than it should, really. |
Congrats....the first billion is the hardest.
--Frog
"If everybody marketeered, you wouldn't be able to make any influence."
Ahh, yes. Just as, in the real world, if everyone tried to earn money, you wouldn't be able to earn any money.
To keep the positive attitude of this thread going I've done pretty much exactly the same. I have EXTREME altitis so it's not so much one specific character for me. Since I came back recently making inf on the market is just staggeringly easy. I was used to shopping in soviet redside when I played before, and the market merge is beautiful.
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I was one of those that whined a bit about the ebil market that was completely opaque to me. I had no idea what to do with it, or how people could afford to pay that much. (I assumed they were farming some exploit, I suppose). Then I read the guide to make Inf, saw that my Scrapper had built up a lot more Merits than I thought, and figured why not give it a shot now that I had a possible seed? There may have been some personal facepalming involved when I found out how easy it was.|
Originally Posted by Frogfather
Ya know...every time I try to help someone out with the market, either in my SG or in broadcast or occassionally just in tells, I invariably get the response "If everybody marketeered, then you wouldnt be able to make any influence." or "Youre just saying that as a way to make even more influence" Its nice (as always) to see someone take the advice presented and make use of it.
Congrats....the first billion is the hardest. --Frog |
I was a bit apprehensive asking about it here, though. The Market Forum is a dark, twisted place of ebil, brimstone, and flames fuelled by the glorious pit of burning money. At least that's how I thought. Turns out, I got solid advice that actually worked. I figured I should pop back in and say thanks.
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Well Done!
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Ebil words of wisdom right there |
Originally Posted by McNum
Because if I really wanted it, but was patient enough to craft it myself, someone else might also want it, but be less patient. This worked out far better than it should, really.
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Congratulations McNum, This is Awesome!!
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Awfully nice to see someone give credit where it's due for a change. You are a class act McNum -- glad you got what you needed and are enjoying success in the market! |
Originally Posted by McNum
I was a bit apprehensive asking about it here, though. The Market Forum is a dark, twisted place of ebil, brimstone, and flames fuelled by the glorious pit of burning money. At least that's how I thought. Turns out, I got solid advice that actually worked. I figured I should pop back in and say thanks.
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And no, I'm not sarcastic, I really mean thank you.
A while ago I made a thread about what to do with a pile of Merits. I got a lot of nice feedback and started reading some of the marketeering guides, and long story short: It finally clicked. Got half a billion on one character to see if I could. Wasn't too hard, really. Still have that, actually. Anyway, I19 hit and I started playing my old FF Defender again. She was running SOs, and it was tme to upgrade. I then had a weird idea: Could I IO her out, yet make a profit off doing so?
Short answer: Yes.
It took pretty much all of December and some criminally low bids, but I got my Defender (almost) fully decked out in sets, with a 200 million profit. No purples, and a few generics here and there, but Rose is pretty awesome now. Got one outstanding bid on an HO still to go.
How do you do this? Well... you need to understand flipping and crafting, and think a little out of the box. I need two times 5 Miracle for Aid Other and Self. That's still expensive on a limited budget, but... if I bought FIVE sets, I could craft and sell three and get the two of mine virtually for free. So I did. And I did that for a lot of the set IOs I bought. Because if I really wanted it, but was patient enough to craft it myself, someone else might also want it, but be less patient. This worked out far better than it should, really.
So before sets, it was 70-ish million and all SOs. After sets it's 320 million and pretty much all the set IOs I could want. Had I just been in it for the Inf, I'd likely be a billionaire in the game now.
So once more: Thanks Marketeers! You helped me out and got Rose some IOs I frankly had written off as "not for me" in advance.
Now I could probably start aiming for the cap, just to post a monocle and top hat picture.
Aegis Rose, Forcefield/Energy Defender - Freedom
"Bubble up for safety!"