Midlevel Crisis: Lazy Reseller Time!

It has been mentioned that midlevel recipes are hard to buy AND hard to sell. Nobody sells what nobody's buying and nobody's buying what nobody's selling. This is on top of the core problem, which is that the system makes it near-impossible to generate things at non-native level.

I'm going to play middleman and buy people's stuff and resell it. I need help working out the details. Should I buy "anything orange" for a million and list it for 2 million? Should I just buy the stuff that people ask me to buy in this thread? Should I buy yellows? What should my limits be [e.g. "stop the experiment when I have 100 items of unsold inventory" or "lose half a billion inf"? ]

I can't fix the underlying problem. I can't make a significant change in the market as a whole. But I can move a hundred, or two hundred, recipes from "delete" to a buyer who wants them.

I can start running my level locked (25,30, 35) guys again to generate a merits for a random roll.

Obviously, I would keep the stuff I can slot on my army of alts, but there is always some stuff left over.

They do sell, but can take a long while. I recently crafted a level 26 (I think) Touch of lady Grey proc and it sold finally after two months of sitting on a toon.


I would be willing to give them to you as recipes and you could either sell them or craft them or give 'em away or whatever method you prefer to get them into someone's hands.

I make plenty of inf so money isn't the issue. I just know someone could use these, even stuff that isn't all that hot. Heck, I tried to give away a level 30 Horror - Acc/Fear. No takers. If you are willing, I will produce recipes in the 25-35 range.

Pool As and Bs can be produced at non-native level so I would suggest that you deal mostly (or exclusively) in Pool Cs.

When to stop? When you have as many market slots clogged as you have toons that you can afford to have market slots clogged on.

I'll contribute my Pool C deleters at no charge to you and will make you a deal on surplus Mid-price Pool Cs. Just let me know.

OK, when I start buying:

Pool C
Any level under 42
Zero bidding
1 million inf each.
Reselling for 2 million inf each.

(I don't know when I'm going to start, though)

There are quite a few pool C/D recipes that are vendor trash. Many are available on the market with a handful or more for sale and no outstanding bids. I know because I have a level-locked character I do randoms with. Anything I don't want gets gleemailed to an unplayed market alt and listed on the market. That character's market slots are almost filled with unwanted recipes, and his recipe inventory is nearly full with more stacks of the same.

If your intention is to pay a million for such recipes it would be possible for someone to make a little inf by buying up those vendor trash recipes off the market and selling them to you.

Which is my long-winded way of saying you might want to limit your offer in some way.

Yeah, if I buy stuff that has massive oversupply I'll delete it. Eventually it'll run low.

I'm thinking this is like 100-to-500 million inf of losses, or whenever I run out of places to sell stuff, or whenever I get bored.

I have about ten idle 50's, so I'm thinking boredom is the limiting factor here.

Look, I know this might not be what you are looking to do, but I am also willing to contribute funds. At least a couple hundred million if needed.

My last level 35 roll was awesome. 2 Decimation triple. Touch of death tripe. kinetic combat triple and an Aegis. I sold all but the Touch of Death. If it doesn't sell in a week or so I will pull it and send it to you.

I'm not super rich but I figure I got about 8 billion all told at the moment so I can spare some cash.

(BTW, I just burned 600 million to finish TP's on an Infinity base. I thought of you while it burned!)

/e warms his hands by the fire

Feels good.

If you're looking for a suggestion of what to buy...has anyone compiled a list of the IO recipes you CANNOT get with Alignment merits? Is there some known pattern, or would one have to look for each one and note whether it's available or not?

It seems to me that if a given recipe is out of supply at a given level, zero for sale, one could fairly easily drop an A-merit or two if one really, really wanted the recipe. But the ones thnat don't appear in the A-merit list can only be "forced" using the harder-to-acquire, more expensive original reward merits.

If you are looking to be a middleman for mid-level recipes, maybe those are the ones least obtainable.

My advice is to pick an AT/powers that you like to play, a lot, because you will be doing it for a awhile. Also, use mids to tweak out your low end build. Set bonuses can really help.

Finally, I suggest a build that you have already taken to 50 so you won't be as tempted to unlock him/her.