How to Merch, Like a Boss!
Yeah Yeah, I said I was leaving, but in my defense this guide has been in the works for a few months and I decided I would release it instead of being a noob and deleting it.
So yes, there are a few guides out there on Merching (Hunzz, Evolt) but I feel they are out of date, so this will be a little updated and more in depth.
The Basics
Auction Slots
The more the merrier, when you are merching you want to have the freedom to post as many items at once as possible, you never know when your ideal buyer will come along and buy one of your items.
Yes, you can merch with one Auction slot but it will take a whole lot of time ;)
I suggest creating a new character and buying the starter pack for it that comes with 10 free auctions slots for a fraction of what they normally are, if you still want more do some free plat offers and save for the pack of 10 auctions slots (75 plat)
I personally use 100 auction slots and I don't always have them full but when I do boy its cool to sell 10-15 items every few hours :)
Knowing your Prices
This is one of the most important aspects, I suggest taking a few days to read through the CS and search through it to find the average prices for items so you know when you find a good deal. Knowledge is also power and you have the advantage over someone if you know what you can make off of the item then you can utulize that to make good decisions in buying items
Constantly keep in mind Supply>Demand, this will help when making decisions on items that are rare, versus items that are not rare.
This will also help when you buy from people through direct trading, you can negotiate with them based on your knowledge of the CS.
Time
You will need some time to merch, I spend about 15 minutes every 1-5 hours looking through for good deals.
Once you become effective at searching you can cut down the time you spend looking and get on to making the real money, it will be trial and error for awhile with some of the items you first merch.
All The Rest
What to merch?
When you are merching you are looking for big ticket items that you can buy then relist for good profits, Heres a small cheat sheet
Pinks
-Forgotten bows (Levels 10-~61)
-Halloween Items (Paws, Blades, Shields levels 10-30)
-Artisan, Expert armors (level 15)
-25 Sandstone cave items (Especially Dex helms and armors)
-30-35 Pvp Items (Brainfreeze, Shiv, Iceberg armors(lvl30) Swamp rat, Copperhead, Zombie armors helms and weapons(lvl 31-35))
-37 Alien Oasis Pinks( Helms and Armors)
-40 Alien Oasis Pinks (Helms and Armors)
-50 Shadow and Alien Oasis premium set pieces (Shadow, Hate, Death, Void, Rift, Cosmos)
-51-55 Sewer set pieces (Mainly Raid Roach, Mega Mage, and Fury fighter pieces)
-56-60 Glyph set pieces
-61-66 Fang set pieces
-66 Humania set pieces
-70 crafted humania set pieces
-71-75 Blacksmoke pinks
These are some of the items that are hot items for different reasons. Most of the level low level helms and armors are good Pvping gear so they are good to merch off of. Forgotten bows and halloween items are also good merching items if you know your prices.
How to Make the Moolah
Lets start off by entering the CS, you need to make a travel path through the CS to search out every possible deal that can make you money. Depending on how much time you have to merch you can reform this suggested path to fit your schedule. Here is the path I use
-1-10 pinks (Armors, lvl 10 Weapons/fbows) Purple (Armors, Helms)
11-15 pinks (Armors, Weapons, Shields)
16-20 pinks (Armors, Weapons, Shields)
21-23 pinks (Onyx, Crystal, Earth items)
25-29 pinks (Onyx, Crystal, Earth items/Snipers Helms, Bone Armors)
30-31 pinks (Brainfreeze, Shivering, Iceberg Armors, Swamp Scaled items (level 30-31)
32-35 pinks (Green Ice Brainfreeze Shiv and iceberg, Scaled and Unscaled Swamp Items)
37-39 pinks (Alien Oasis Armors and Helms (dont merch weapons except maybe hunting bows)
40-40 pinks (Alien Oasis Armors Helms and Shields)
41-43 pinks (Alien Oasis Armors and Helms)
(skip 45-49)
50 pinks (Shadow, Death, Hate, Void, Cosmos, Rift)
51-53 pinks (Sewer)
55-55 pinks (Mainly Fury, Raid, Mega Mage)
56-58 pinks (Charmin' , Strongman, Obedience, and sometimes Bigtop, Nuris, Mimicry if you can make profit)
60-60 pinks (Same as above)
61-61 pinks (fang)
63-65 pinks (Fang, crafted and uncrafted)
66-68 pinks (humania)
70-70 (crafted and uncrafted humania)
71-73 pinks
75-76 pinks, Elites
1-15 christmas items
15-35 christmas items
35-65 christmas (I dont recommend buying above level 30 for christmas)
1-15 Halloween
15-35 Halloween
35-55 Halloween
Check All Vanities for any good deals (Bunny Ears, Party Hats, Ancient Coins)
lastly look at purple Christmas and Halloween for good deals
Now, there are a few forms of ways to merch items you find.
Firstly if you see multiple Items underpriced BUY THEM ALL! stash them till the prices recovers and sell them for profit!
For Example: You know level 22 Forgotten pink bows can sell for 300k because you sold on last week (random example) So you see 3 of them listed for 150-160- and 170k. You can then purchase all three of these with the guarantee that they will go up in price no matter what till the next forgotten event (supply>demand) and you can slowly sell these off at 300k. If you get underpriced just let the item expire and try back in a few days, you should be in no rush to sell it, bide your time.
Secondly You can do quick flip merching. If you see a item that is priced too low you can buy it and sell it for the price it usually goes for.
For Example: You see a Fiendish Monkey Paw (level 15) for 100k and another above it for 180k, you know that you can sell these for 150k+ so you can buy the one for 100k then list it for 175k so it is still the cheapest paw shown but you make a nice profit off of it.
Thirdly there is long term Merching, this is buying items you predict will increase in value down the road.
For Example: I purchased 2 Elite sea blasters back during the humania cap for 1.7 mil each, I waited till they were discontinued and sold each for 3.3 mil. That was a profit of 2.2 mil just for waiting a few months.
This was also done by some smart merch's with the Black Dragon which used to sell for 3-5 mil and is now worth 10-20 mil a piece.
I Made some money! what now?
Its up to you, but here is what I do with the money I make.
If I buy a Zombie robe for 5k and sell it the next day for 15k then I stash half of my profit (5k) and use the other half for more merching. If you are succesful you will always have money to play around with while saving a good sum in your stash for whatever cool sets you want to get.
To be successful you can't blow every ounce of gold you get, stay focused and think out every purchase you make.
Final Thoughts
-If you lost money on a deal don't beat yourself up! just move on and sell the item for a loss, a little bit of money is better then no money at all
- Don't get over zealous and buy every Voodoo pin on the market and think that you can list just one of them for 1 mil and someone will buy it, people farm that stuff or already own it and will under cut you, just stay on top of what is happening in the CS and price your items accordingly.
-When buying items to make profits make sure the you are keeping in mind the fee that is charged to list the item, it will cut into your profits so don't merch on items under 5k unless your sure it will sell quick
-A great idea is to keep a notebook going of every item you buy and what price you bought it for so you can minimize your losses and maximize your profits :)
I will add to this as I finish all my info I am putting into it
-Griff
How to Merch, Like a Boss!
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