What things in AUCTION can sell easily?

I want to be a resell trader,
So I want to buy something from AUCTION in low price,and resell it...

what things are popular with PPL?

What things in AUCTION can sell easily?

Don't treat me as an unscrupulous merchant...

I just want to earn a little PED....

Give me some help,thx...

how old are u ?

I don't think too many people here are going to help you become a reseller.

And yet another new reseller was born.

The best way is to buy every single thing on auction in order to corner the market in everything. You will then be able to sell everything at ridiculous prices, e.g. shadow helmet for 1 billion PED, animal hide at 800% etc etc.

To maintain your profit you will also have to continue to buy everything looted by anyone.

Hope that helps.

shineway said:

I want to be a resell trader,
So I want to buy something from AUCTION in low price,and resell it...
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Don't treat me as an unscrupulous merchant...

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in this game, the term "resell trader" and "unscrupulous merchant" are synonyms... and also known as "reseller"...

while this activity is perfectly legal and don't break any rules, well, just don't expect it to make you the most appreciated kid in the block.

why?. because when you find something cheap to resell, you're preventing other people to buy that same cheap item to actually play the game (hunt, mine, craft...). you're kind of "forcing" the other players to buy it more expensive from you.

so, you are free to do it, but dont expect people to love you

shineway said:

I just want to earn a little PED....

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yes, me too; amazing coincidence, eh!...

lol you people and your hatred for resellers. Im really gettin worried that most of you are completely oblivious to what goes on in real world business. The proper term is - TRADING (TRAY-DING ), its a profession in EU and everyone does it, get used to it.

Shineway - (L) rifles seem to sell well and fast.

EDIT: Im not defending resellers because I am one. I deposit, hunt, mine and craft.

Limey said:

Im really gettin worried that most of you are completely oblivious to what goes on in real world business. The proper term is - TRADING (TRAY-DING ), its a profession in EU and everyone does it, get used to it.

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Thanks for your concerns, Limey, but I'm perfectly aware of the reselling activities in real word, and how they can ruin certain markets as a result of unscrupulous speculation with basic goods.

Limey said:

Shineway - (L) rifles seem to sell well and fast.

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Nice suggestion on how to ruin a hunter's game experience by reselling with L guns. I'm really sick tired of seeing people buying k400's at 140 just to relist them at 160. This really helps a lot to the rest of us trying to find eco guns.

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EDIT: Im not defending resellers because I am one. I actually deposit, I also hunt, mine and craft.

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Reselling does not have anything to do with depositing or not.

Nice to have a couple of names added to my list of people I will never buy from.

Hello,

First, reselling will not make you any friends other than those people you buy your stuff from initialy, and even they will come to resent or dispise you.

Second, Reselling takes time, understanding and lots of money.

So.... Find an item that you can afford to buy all of. When I say all I mean everything in auction now and everything that comes into auction and everything from every player you can find. This lets you corner the market, or at least control it enough to influence the prices. At this point people like you because you are buying and giving them money.

Then you relist the items in auction at your increased prices and wait for people to accept the price as the new market value for the item. At this point people are begging to resent you and only buying from the players who are selling at a "reasonable" price. You are loosing money from auction fees, on-going purchases, bidding wars and the fact that no one is buying your stuff yet.

Then you relist again. Now some people start buying at your inflated prices as the only way they can get the item is from you and other players have started selling a little higher too becuase you have actually driven up the market value by buying everyting you can. Your sales begin to cover your costs but you still have the huge PED hole you dig to get here. By now people are beggining to dispise you, drop you from friends lists and neg rep you on forums.

Then you relist again. Now you are raking in the cash and it is begining to pay back your "investment" and you may, if you have done it right, make a very good profit. People dont like you much at this point because you have single-handedly increased inflation and the cost of playing the game. Your starting to get lonely and realize that ped aren't much fun when you want company.

You sell out the last of your stock. You collect the last of your profit and are sitting pretty in your appartment, all alone because no one but those wanting to get ped from you will play with you. Now the market either crashes back to previous levels and people hate you because the widget they bought at TT+1000 is now worth TT+100 or the market stays high because others sustain it and people hate you because you just put another item out of reach of the masses.

Good luck.

Grounder

Limey said:

lol you people and your hatred for resellers. Im really gettin worried that most of you are completely oblivious to what goes on in real world business. The proper term is - TRADING (TRAY-DING ), its a profession in EU and everyone does it, get used to it.

Shineway - (L) rifles seem to sell well and fast.

EDIT: Im not defending resellers because I am one. I deposit, hunt, mine and craft.

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Limey - there is a subtle difference between trading and reselling that is covered in many places in these forums.

Typically some who provides a service and take a modest profit for it is seen as a trader. Someone who attempts to influence prices or uses morally questionable business practices to obtain what is preceived to be an unreasonable profit are seen as resellers.

Traders are appreciated.
Resellers are not.

Grounder

Traders / resellers are exactly the same.
Weapons (L) are a great choice, korss400 (l) are over economic besides the rest. It should be your main activity for a start, beside the fact they are lower TT than most of other (L) weapons.
When prices for korss will be around 180% (don' do it in once, follow some steps , 160%, 165%, 170%, you should try to follow your activity in bigger weapons.
It will helps the universe a lot, cause crafter should sell their product 10%markup than they do actually, and sell more of them.
Unlimited stuff still will be usefull for most people around 4 HA.
Seriously, consider it.
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shineway said:

what things are popular with PPL?

What things in AUCTION can sell easily?

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Cheap things

shineway said:

What things in AUCTION can sell easily?

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anything for TT buyout

Cougar said:

Cheap things

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Cheap things are not good things...

Just buying cheap items at auction and selling same item more expensive at auction is just sooo lame!

There are allready enough (or too many) people out there doing this!

Better try to become a Trader who works for his income.

Collect small amounts of stuff on the street at a slightly lower price and then sell a big amount to somebody who doesn't like to spend hours on the road buying stuff. If you are doing good you might become a known trader with clients that regulary sell their small amounts to you (if you pay fair price) and maybe some clients that need big amounts regulary that buy from you!

Good Luck

Oleg said:

Nice to have a couple of names added to my list of people I will never buy from.

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yes indeed

Note that he is already preparing to withdraw our money

shineway said:

I always think that if i store a lot of PEDs,i want to change them to $
How to withdraws the cash from offical website ?

(actually...I'm a poor man in Game,I just want to know how to withdraws)

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Limey said:

lol you people and your hatred for resellers. Im really gettin worried that most of you are completely oblivious to what goes on in real world business. The proper term is - TRADING (TRAY-DING ), its a profession in EU and everyone does it, get used to it.

Shineway - (L) rifles seem to sell well and fast.

EDIT: Im not defending resellers because I am one. I deposit, hunt, mine and craft.

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in the real world reselling and trading often adds value or makes things simpler... I could of course buy my laptop from China, my software from Germany etc... but then I have to be a more active consumer... If I could buy things directly from an auction in a safe way, and get delivery to my doorstep I would probably do that, but what auction should I use...
I don't hate traders and reseller in EU, as long as they bring value to the goods, i.e collects them into larger quantities, sell them to me when I need them, at decent prices etc.

Oleg said:

The best way is to buy every single thing on auction in order to corner the market in everything. You will then be able to sell everything at ridiculous prices, e.g. shadow helmet for 1 billion PED, animal hide at 800% etc etc.

To maintain your profit you will also have to continue to buy everything looted by anyone.

Hope that helps.

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You have just made me throw my tea all over my keyboard at work

A more constructive way would perhaps be to hook up with some skilled crafters and some skilled miners and buy resourses for a good price and sell to the crafters and perhaps vice versa with tools.

But something tells me that those people don't need a middleman but you can always try...

Also its not like the miners out there can't find their way to an auctioneer themselves. Or the crafters.

But if you always have a good stock and are ingame 24/7 perhaps it would be interesting, who knows? Then you would actually be offering a service

shineway said:

I want to be a resell trader,
So I want to buy something from AUCTION in low price,and resell it...

what things are popular with PPL?

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This is really a tricky one. You will need to accept the fact that you will have to buy at above TT price, and most likely above market price. It's hard to buy items below market price.

If you want to do trades in things which are popular with people, you'll also need to sell.

To ensure your items sell, and you don't end up wasting the auction fee, you'll need to sell at a low enough price. Probably the best way to ensure it sells is set a buyout mid-way between TT and market price. If market price is close to TT, then set the buyout below TT.

This way you won't waste the auction fee.

Ppl above have suggested weapons like the korss - this would definitely work with the above scheme.

Another thing you could consider is hides and animal oils. You'll find a ready supply of newbie hunters in PA who want to sell things like animal hide and muscle oil. If you offer to buy in PA at just above market price, you'll definitely get plenty of stock.

Once you have around 2000 units, list on the auction with a buyout at around TT or maybe slightly over, but definitely below market price or you will find it won't sell, and you will waste the auction fee, which is a costly mistake sometimes made by traders starting out.

Before long you will have a ready supply of sellers who come to find you, and also a ready market in terms of buyers.

If you can keep this up for 6 months or more, you'll definitely be a success, and have a good reputation as a reliable and useful trader to know.

Happy trading

Erm .... I may have failed to mention it can be expensive trading so you will need plenty of peds to get started. Gl

Gondorf said:

You have just made me throw my tea all over my keyboard at work

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Oops... perhaps the thread starter can sell you a new one for 200% of the standard price?

lootman said:

Traders / resellers are exactly the same.
Weapons (L) are a great choice, korss400 (l) are over economic besides the rest. It should be your main activity for a start, beside the fact they are lower TT than most of other (L) weapons.
When prices for korss will be around 180% (don' do it in once, follow some steps , 160%, 165%, 170%, you should try to follow your activity in bigger weapons.
It will helps the universe a lot, cause crafter should sell their product 10%markup than they do actually, and sell more of them.
Unlimited stuff still will be usefull for most people around 4 HA.
Seriously, consider it.
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Congratulations on posting something that made me give my first ever -rep.

Thankyou Grounder, it seems all this time I have played EU my perception of the reseller has been some what distorted from the actual meaning.

Grounder said:

Typically some who provides a service and take a modest profit for it is seen as a trader.

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That is what I thought to be a reseller and I did and still do have no problem with that.

Grounder said:

Someone who attempts to influence prices or uses morally questionable business practices to obtain what is preceived to be an unreasonable profit are seen as resellers.

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These words change my opinion, I see this as unreasonable practises to take to make a profit.

Your words are clear and I think more people need to read your definition before accusing traders. Which I see a lot of in-game.

Limey said:

Thankyou Grounder, it seems all this time I have played EU my perception of the reseller has been some what distorted from the actual meaning.



That is what I thought to be a reseller and I did and still do have no problem with that.



These words change my opinion, I see this as unreasonable practises to take to make a profit.

Your words are clear and I think more people need to read your definition before accusing traders. Which I see a lot of in-game.

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Agreed, I +repped Grounder for that post earlier.

When I was a little noob hanging around in PA, the (legitimate) traders were very useful when I had small amounts of hides/ores/etc to sell, too small to make auctioning worthwhile, and now, although I mostly use auction or buy from soc-mates, the traders occasionally come in handy when I need to buy resources.

Resellers, on the other hand, have done nothing for me except slow down my progress thanks to the artificially inflated prices on the equipment I need to move up to the next level (and MA's armour drop policy has only made it worse).

Funny, in the in game advert for EU, they specifically say that trading is probably the best & profitable professions to get into, yet most people hate traders/resellers

Jaas said:

Funny, in the in game advert for EU, they specifically say that trading is probably the best & profitable professions to get into, yet most people hate traders/resellers

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Read Grounders post, there is a distinct difference between "trader" and "reseller/market manipulator", One is providing a needed service, the other is leeching off the players in the game. One is hated, even despised, the other is liked and wanted by many crafters and users of the resources plus those wanting to get rid of their stocks in small amounts.

Trader=crafter/colorer/minor/nub friend. He will buy the resources at a slightly lower than market price from those that do not want to put the item on auction. And he will then sell a bulk amount to the crafter/colorer etc. at the market price. A true trader saves minors and hunters time, and provides a wanted service.

Reseller=everyones enemy. He is only out to get others money, and does this by controlling the scars supply of items to get himself more money. He is hated by all that want to enjoy the game.

Hope that helps a little

Jaas said:

Funny, in the in game advert for EU, they specifically say that trading is probably the best & profitable professions to get into, yet most people hate traders/resellers

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You should read previous posts. We had just agreed with Grounder that a Trader and Reseller are two different professions.

Traders we like, Resellers we dont

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