Who are these people...

...that buy all the crafted IOs that I put on the market? I am constantly amazed that I am able to buy a recipe and the necessary salvage, then sell the crafted IO for nearly twice what I paid. Sometimes more, sometimes less...since I've been tracking it I average 87% profit.

I almost never buy a crafted IO myself, and I don't really understand the mentality that causes people to spend so much more than necessary. In a few high-demand cases it may be necessary since the recipes aren't available or are very costly. But those are exception cases, and there always seems to be someone willing to pay even for IOs made from very cheap recipes.

I know there's a bit of an impatience factor at play, but even there, it seems like you could do better buying a recipe and salvage at high "buy it now" prices and crafting it yourself.

Of course, I suppose I should be happy that such people exist. I end up with a lot of extra inf because of it.

Me.

I had three IOs left to go on a build recently. I overspent by close to a hundred million inf. . . of course, I spent half of that thinking I was buying the LAST IO and I had two to go.

So, sometimes, me.

I've bought crafted IOs, but usually only when there are no recipes available, or the recipes are going for the same price as the crafted IO. (It's pretty weird when that occurs, but it does occasionally.)

Commons or Sets? Sets I can understand if there aren't any recipes on sale and people really want them NAO, but commons I don't get because you can always buy the recipes from a crafting station and have it almost always work out cheaper than buying crafted.

My assumption is that, just as we have a segment of the population that refuses to use the invention system ("All builds should be equal, your play style is all that matters"), or the consignment house ("marketeering is what destroys a game, every time"), there is a group that refuses to craft ("I don't have the time or inclination to figure out what all this crap does"). Fortunately, they spend that extra tim farming, and have solid cash reserves to buy overpriced crafted IOs.

I buy it nao when I want a build. bidding and waiting is for making money I don't want to wait for my build.

Thing is though, memorizing them takes quite a lot of crafts, which cost money, so memorizing is only worthwhile if you plan on doing a lot of marketeering or using them to supply all your alts.

i buy the already crafted when i can because im just plain lazy and dont want to go through and find the salvage i need and then run over to the university to craft it and run back to the market, ect

basically it comes down to being lazy lol

There have been times where I've paid less for a crafted IO than a recipe. There are also times where I've paid reasonable price for an crafted IO when figuring in invention and salvage costs.

But in general if I'm feeling lazy and need that one last IO and don't feel like another trip to the base to invent it I'll bid a few extra million to get it now.

Me sometimes. Many times if we are talking paying 555,555 for a IO and I just want to do it from the markert without moving.

Then again, I'll also bid for overnight if I dont intend playing that character straight away, and thank those people that let me buy IOs for under 100k.

I just started a new critter. I wanted to build some inf for itself, so I bought some level 50 IO's at 120K, listed them at 201K, and they sold for a million.

For any given value of "enough inf", There's always SOMEONE for whom that's not enough inf to bother with.

Also, if you play a "finished/nearly finished" character a lot, you have a lot of spare inf. What else you going to do with it, make a bonfire on Virtue?

The other thing to keep in mind is economies of scale. Often times the buy it now price for the crafted enhancement is about the same as the buy it now price for recipe + salvage. When I craft enhancements for sale I do so in stacks of 10 which makes it a lot more cost efficient to bid overnight for the ingredients which isn't the case with when buying single enhancements for slotting.

I do too.

I needed a level 10 Karma knockback resistance IO for a new toon. Uncrafted, it was selling for 4 million. Crafted, it was selling for 45 million.

But there were ZERO for sale at 4 million, so I'd have had to place the bid and perhaps wait a day or two or three to get one. But hey, I can just go and get one for 1 or 2 hero merits and save myself 4 million, and get it now, right?

Wrong. Because for 2 hero merits I can buy a LoTG +Rech recipe at level 25 and sell it for 180 million. Which I did. Then I splurge 50 million on the crafted Karma and come out 130 million ahead. Plus, I can keep rolling with my new toon without having to wait around for perhaps days.

Easy decision.

Yeah, I do it for the workbench and the extra salvage storage.

I did that this weekend for Sparks Fly, my current favorite scrapper. I had over 500 items crafted already, and the Inventor badge from University, but I had none of the memorization badges. I managed to get field Craftier by Sunday just after Noon. ^_^

I was planning to do it for more than one character, but eh, it's too much work. I typically work up the energy to earn field crafter on a toon only once every 4-6 months.

As for buying crafted IOs... on cheaper IOs I'll do that when I'm working on a build, because I can slot them immediately. But on more expensive stuff I'll take the time to buy the recipe at a low to mid level price. Except that a month or so ago I paid 1.7 billion for a Panacea proc recipe and crafted it, and did not even realize that the crafted version was selling for just about 1 billion. O_o

If only the tab for memorization recipes wouldn't be open everytime you open the window. That's the sole reason I don't go for the badges, it's a pet peeve of mine to have to close it everytime.