SOs for sale

It seems everyone is starting their own market experiment, so I decided to try my own and see what happens.

There are plenty of people out there who still use SOs, often, people who don't like the using the market. Which is unfortunate, since they're likely to get better deals on their SOs on the market.

So, I'm going to pass off the more useful SOs I get to lesser used alts and put them up on the market rather than just selling them off at the RWZ quartermaster like I'd normally do. But I want to at least break even (I'm not that altruistic), so they'll go up for the base price (as if bought new) times 0.4 (RWZ QM buys back for 40% off new prices) divided by 0.9 (to cover the market fee) rounded up to the next thousand. Basically, about 44-45% of the regular price, maximum of 27,000 (level 50+ damage or heal SO).

The SOs will then be listed on a spreadsheet on Google Docs (also see link in sig) with the exact price needed to buy it. If it stays up for more than two weeks, I'll pull it down and vendor it.

The SOs I consider useful and will be putting up are Accuracy, Damage, Endurance Red and Mod, Heal, Damage Resist, Defense and Recharge. Possibly movement types, but probably not any debuffs or mezz unless they're level 51+. If there's 10 or more of that type already up, I'll try and clear some of it out by buying them up to the sell back price and vendor the whole lot.

Click the “Items for sale” tab at the bottom to see the current inventory.

Most SOs will be around either level 33 or level 50, since those are the characters I run most often.

This experiment made much easier thanks to the OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs extension.

Interesting! I hate the market, but I use it anyway out of sheer self-interest (it's the best way to get many things I want). I suppose hard core market haters refuse to even touch it, though I imagine those are a small minority, but who knows, maybe they constitute at least 51% of the population?

I do use SOs in my builds still, despite my market use. Mostly just as fillers while waiting on common IOs to fill.

The market can be a great source of SOs. I snagged a level 19 SO for my then-level 17 Stalker. Those really low level SOs are pretty rare but they are out there. I think they can be purchased with Merits? Waste of Merits, if true.

Making money on the market with SOs is quite an idea. I'm not so sure the spreadsheet format will make progress easy to follow. Perhaps a summary can be posted in this thread, if not daily then weekly?

Good luck!

WARNING: I bold names.

Oh When I'm leveling a toon I usualy toss any odd funky numbered genericly useful DO's and SO's I get up till about the 30's on the the market. Pretty darn low. Anything DO that is pre 15 and any lucky SO that's before 20 or just after. sometimes the ones tween 26-29 but often forget. I just rember that getting past basic's and then DO's as soon as possible is a blessing to anyone lucky enough to have them drop... If I can't use mine or theyre comming off in some teen freespec why not?

Never care what they sell for as long as somebody uses them.

That's an awesome Avatar by the way StarGeek.

Added link to original post and here it is again

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I added the other link to the OpenOffice extension because I thought it was pretty darn cool. Every time I edit and save the spreadsheet on my home computer, it's automatically updated on Google docs.

I'm also going to do the same with my hero merit roll spreadsheet that I mentioned in the other thread, once I figure out how to hide my listing prices.

Interesting experiment...

I put these on the market for 1 inf whenever I get them. This is a video game.