Saturday, July 01, 2006

Pricing

In the begining everything i sold was priced to sell , rare or comman it made no difference.. all my stuff was cheap. I had to do this as in the first few days i needed money and i needed it now!!!!

A few days later my prices are starting to change although i still need money im not worried about selling stuff on a hourly basis. Im creeping the price of my rare items upward aiming to sell them to the rich twink crowd who i have discovered though many years playing crafter's in various games are willing to spend INSANE prices on items even if their charecter will only wear it a few days at most.

My comman gear is still priced to sell ... i make so much of it i need it to sell as fast as possible to make room for the next ton of stuff im churning out. Ive found theres no point pricing comman gear at high prices as those that twink wont look at it anyway and those forced to look at it due to money constraints will buy crappy dropped gear rather than pay over the odds for a marginally better piece of crafted gear.

I know some will argue the they think dropped gear is better than crafted these days i would argue however that with the new ranges of crafted with various "stat sets" it makes it easier for the player to maximise the stats they need for there class. Players are inherenty lazy and most would prefer to type a keyword into the search window of a set of armour they know will have the stats they are looking for than spend hours trolling though the lists and lists of dropped gear to find the bits they need.

All in all i suppose you could say my comman gear is priced for the newbie to get rid of it quick , and my rare gear is priced insanly for the twinks, it might not sell fast but when it does my pockets will feel better for it.

Day 4 - Morning


Ok ive pretty much made the decision to empty my boxs of money once per day, keep things simple. It means you guys can keep a better track on how much im making.

Not much point me linking my daily consigned sales as with all the spam from my other other boxes you'd never work out what i sold. To keep you guys filled in ill do a rough rundown of stuff i sell daily and ill put some images up of the 2 box's so you can see at a rough glace the kinds of stuff im selling and the kinds of prices im asking.

This morning i only had 18g in one box the second box was totally empty * sulk * .. yesterday/ overnight i sold a few raws about(1g 96s worth). Machinist bloomers (T1 rare for 5g) , tanned backpack (T2 20s) , burlap slippers, gloves (T2 comman 50s each) , Tanned boots (T2 comman 50s) roughspun cuffs, slippers ( T2 rare 5g each ) .

Plans for the day ... dunno what lvl ill reach today, weekends are funny things in the crafting world i find. With so many people online raws go though the roof, but sales tend to be pretty good.

Ive managed to buy 6 cured pelts for bettween 40s -90s each off the market + 2 pelts i got harvesting and one of my first jobs is to turn them into armour, the leather stuff doens't sell as well as the cloth due to pure numbers. Simply there are not the number of class's that can wear leathers compared to cloth. Sisal roots are 6g each on the broker atm .. i got one yesterday while harvesting and although im tempted to buy one as the cloth sells quite well it would be quite a chunk of my money.

Ive spent some more money this morning on belladonna roots that where reasonably cheap, and a couple more Advanced outfitter books, i find the key with the books is to just keep checking back and only buy them when they are cheap.. dont even attempt to buy them at high prices just wait for them to turn up at a low price. Ive now got Advanced Outfitter Volumes 10, 11, 12, 14 and 18... i think the most expensive one cost 1.2g

Got a few other raws harvesting yesterday the only other one thats any use to me is a blackened iron .. which i will make something out of ... the rest is broker bound.

Lastly for those that are interested im upto 21 hours on bookworm now and im going into todays crafting with 12g to my name.