Playing the Market

[Sam]

So who here plays the market?
What are your favorite items to turn a profit?

[gabbe]

Creature products that you need to have quests to sell and rings. How about you?

[aQuilla Senior]

Brown mushrooms, backpacks, rare items.

[Sam]

Been doing rares, bright swords, hat of the mads and whatever looks good on the market. :p

[Fleet]

Tried it, but for the effort I thought the profit was way to low.
Do you guys make any serious money out of this?

[Sam]

It really is zero effort though. I login with a noob char, check a few things on the market, adjust some stuff and just collect profit.

Another good strategy is checking the advertising channel. Just bought sorts for 550k and sold for 650k minutes later.

[Fleet]

It really is zero effort though. I login with a noob char, check a few things on the market, adjust some stuff and just collect profit.

Another good strategy is checking the advertising channel. Just bought sorts for 550k and sold for 650k minutes later.

Like I said, too much effort for too little profit. :p

[Sam]

100k profit in 2 minutes is too low?

It's something to do while other chars are botting too ;)

[dinmamma]

I do it regulary, my thumb rule is to try and buy anything that can bring 100-200k profit if the price itself is under 1kk and aswell as demon oak items which can bring 1-2kk profit and the holy icon can bring about 2-5kk profit depending on timing :)

I have done this on several worlds and gone from 10k to 20kk+ in a year, it's always hard in the begining when you have to trade stuff like red pocs, which normally bring 2-3k profit each.
But it's fun imo :)

Another tip is to buy "seasoned" stuff, for example zaoan chess box or toy spider. Another example is teddy bear, but that's a rare case when a rare item gets such a great value drop and then slowly rises again to the original value :)

[sausting]

i float my capital on dicers instead of market

[gabbe]

i float my capital on dicers instead of market

+1 That's what I do aswell.

[Sam]

I do it regulary, my thumb rule is to try and buy anything that can bring 100-200k profit if the price itself is under 1kk and aswell as demon oak items which can bring 1-2kk profit and the holy icon can bring about 2-5kk profit depending on timing :)

I have done this on several worlds and gone from 10k to 20kk+ in a year, it's always hard in the begining when you have to trade stuff like red pocs, which normally bring 2-3k profit each.
But it's fun imo :)

Another tip is to buy "seasoned" stuff, for example zaoan chess box or toy spider. Another example is teddy bear, but that's a rare case when a rare item gets such a great value drop and then slowly rises again to the original value :)
Thanks for the tip! I threw 500k on a noob char and I'll see where it gets me.


i float my capital on dicers instead of market
I've lost everything on dicers, gotta be the most unlucky person.

[Mish]

Thanks for the tip! I threw 500k on a noob char and I'll see where it gets me.


I've lost everything on dicers, gotta be the most unlucky person.

You're not supposed to play with the dicers but to host it yourself.

[Jwlz]

Any tips on how to properly do this?

Like, how do you mean "play the market" ?

Do you like, buy all of a certain item and then be the only one selling it or something? Sorry but I'm noob at this.

[sausting]

Any tips on how to properly do this?

Like, how do you mean "play the market" ?

Do you like, buy all of a certain item and then be the only one selling it or something? Sorry but I'm noob at this.
buy low sell high
thats the idea

[Jwlz]

buy low sell high
thats the idea

Gotcha :)


I usually buy tons of soft boots for lets say 500k each until I have quite a good amount. Then I throw some buyoffers on the market ranging from 600-700k each. That way the prices of soft boots and quest services go up and the cash I wasted with the buyoffers before is covered by the profit from the other softs I had bought for 500k + the increased service prices.

Problem with this, is you need the investment cash, I only really have 500k I could throw at trying this :/

[Sam]

You're not supposed to play with the dicers but to host it yourself.
I know, I am hosting and still losing all my money lol

[Mish]

I know, I am hosting and still losing all my money lol

How much did you lose? Fluctuation is completly normal, you simply need to withstand it and keep going. You will definitely profit in the long run.

[Fleet]

I know, I am hosting and still losing all my money lol

Only reason why you loose money is because you don't do it frequently enough.
When botting a dicer there's no bad or good luck - there is only percentage.

Sure, you can have "goodluck" and win a good amount in a quick timeframe, same with badluck, but in the longer run it's the percentage that does it and the house always wins.

[Sam]

Yeah that's sorta what I figured. Maybe I'll throw another 1kk on there and see what happens.

[Evancion]

A friend of mine did this experiment last year, he bought every soft boots on the market and in advertising for 350k, for 2 weeks (I think he got like 250~ pairs).
What he did next was the most brilliant thing ever, he sold each pair for 450k, remember, he bought almost all the soft boots in the available to him, thus he gets to control the prices. Since there weren't any being sold for 350k, 450k was the cheapest offer, so people HAD to buy it for that much. So, if you do the math, 250 pairs * 100k profit = 25 million gold IN PROFIT!

Rich people are doing this a lot nowadays with red pocs and holy orchids, some worlds have them being sold for 50k-100k each.