How many characters do you use for marketing?
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Another_Fan,
Posted on: 2011-05-13 14:25 in The Market and Inventions
All i have to say is go big or go home. I log in 50+ toons at least 3 times a week. Takes about a solid hour.
Im rich because you trust the previous 5 bids!!
My market signature is the highest bid!!!!
I have one I actively marketeer on these days. There are a few scattered around with low ball bids but I don't check those very often.
Enjoy your day please.
Right now I'm down to two.
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Exactly. I went home just before I19.
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Originally Posted by scott2hot006
All i have to say is go big or go home. I log in 50+ toons at least 3 times a week. Takes about a solid hour.
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Heh, me too, give or take a few weeks. Just don't have any compelling reason to make money these days.|
Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata
Exactly. I went home just before I19.
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At the height of my marketeering interest, I was up to about 5 characters -- 1 designated buyer/crafter, and 3/4 sellers. Very occasionally I'd go up as high as 7 characters, but that wasn't a conscious decision to expand; it was the result of my misjudging how fast my stock would move.
The stock always moved eventually, though. YMMV.
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Nice build
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This too. I used to market daily on between 5 and 10 characters.
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Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata
Exactly. I went home just before I19.
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I have a couple craftsmen, and most of the alts I know I'm not going to be playing for a little bit are involved in lowball bidding.
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Originally Posted by MoltenSlowa
For example, I have three characters that are just used to list things to sell, creep bids, etc.
I then have two characters that are meant purely for crafting and buying recipes, as they are constantly near the ticket cap. What about you? |
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I'm back into marketeering, but I've streamlined my activities. I do everything on two dedicated characters now, and check them twice a week. I'm now making roughly a third of what I was making last Fall, for about a fifth of the time and effort.
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See, I log 3 toons 50+ times a week. |
Originally Posted by scott2hot006
All i have to say is go big or go home. I log in 50+ toons at least 3 times a week. Takes about a solid hour.
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... ok, not quite that much, but it does add up.
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I'm at zero for now.
I have one toon that I marketeer on consistantly but I marketeer on every toon I play. I go to the market before I start playing (which ever toon I'm in the mood to play) and at the end of the play session I finish up at the market.
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You need a stop watch
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Originally Posted by scott2hot006
All i have to say is go big or go home. I log in 50+ toons at least 3 times a week. Takes about a solid hour.
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I've got 3 characters that always have something going on with the markets, they're my three with Field Crafter.
I log them on first of an evening, pick up inf from sales overnight, make and list new things, bid for salvage as needed, then alt to whichever alt(s) I end up playing that night.
At the end of the evening, they get checked again, and if needed their slots refreshed.
Takes about 5-10 minutes at the beginning and end of the evening, so 10-20 minutes total. Oh, and the VAST bulk of my turnover is common salvage and Generic IO's, so I'm not playing with big lumps of inf at a time, but it all adds up eventually.
If another character fills up on salvage/recipes due to being played, I'll drop their goods on the markets and leave them to cook until I next play that alt, which can vary from a day to 4 months...
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For example, I have three characters that are just used to list things to sell, creep bids, etc.
I then have two characters that are meant purely for crafting and buying recipes, as they are constantly near the ticket cap.
What about you?