Baking Market for sub-combines

[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

I've been working hard on my baking skill with fillets and have stacks and stacks so I thought I would ask: Is there a market for sub-combines in baking? I'd hate to just throw them at a vendor. I know that I could save them but I need the space for other stuff right now.

Doubtful...

I'd think the only subcombine you could sell would be hero parts... but who would sell those? hehe

Anything else the end product sells for sooo little, that people will do the subcombines themselves to eek out a little more profit.

Naturally I could be wrong, only way to know for sure would be to test it out.

[Corii]

subcombines

I've sold off my extra fillets in cream in the bazaar once Halas pies were trivial (and I was sick of making them!), and I've bought picnic baskets in the bazaar before when I've just been too lazy to make all the bonings and such.

[Cigarskunk]

I really can't think of anything that I'd buy unless it was because I couldn't find the materials - about the only baking components I buy are the foraged items on occasion and the odd brownie part.

[Kaidian Blade]

True.

Filets are too easy to make, especially with the higher yields being produced. You're more likely to make money selling the raw components for baking than sub-combines.

IE:

Brownie Parts
Mammoth Meat
Eggs (other than snake)
Hero Parts
Foraged Items

[Morani]

My mule makes a business out of selling tradeskill supplies and sub-combines. I'm constantly testing the market for new things that sell. I can tell you that it's REAL hit and miss though. Some tradeskills do better than others for the subs (like tailoring with treads and leather padding)

Baking is a tough one. It seems that more tradeskillers are self-sufficient in baking than anything else (with the possible exception of brewing). I currently have 41 stacks of wolf in cream filets at 1p each on my mule to test that market. I'm not worried about selling them though because a guildy will use them if I don't. It would seem to me that it would be worth it to some people to spend some cash to avoid 7200 clicks. At this point though, I'm not targeting the people who sell finished product for profit but the people who want to raise their skill.

As a general rule (if you are looking for subs to test your market with) plan on having the item on you for a while before someone notices and do your research. Look for recipes that are commonly used as a progression path or are high sellers. A particularly good one is something that needs another tradeskill to make (like the mandrake root combines in tailoring for the MTP) or is a "staple" like leather padding.

About the only baking sub that I can think of that consistently sells is dough and noodles (though I’d bet chocolate would be the same). But I think this is because the buyer would need to get eggs or brownie parts ANYWAY. Also, keep your prices low and in line with what the finished product sells for and you'll attract more attention. I forage and hunt the eggs I use so I sell my dough at 5g each; aviak eggs sell from 3-10p each so it's usually a better deal to buy my dough than just the eggs. I do this though not to undersell other people but because I A) don't feel comfortable charging more than 5g each and B) like making long term customers.

Hope that helps and good luck.

P.S. Making dough and noodles is a great way to use up snake eggs. I always get a little bit of a guilty pleasure when I use them with all the other eggs I’ve got. Once you make the dough/noodles, nobody can tell that you used “inferior” eggs. :twisted:

[Idana Phoenixfyre]

I also find it best to advertise. I generally don't LOOK for subcombines but sometimes I grab them if they are resonably priced and I see them being advertised.

Lol I was vendor farming for giant meat (steaks being a staple on my vendor bot) and I saw bear and lion fillets on the vendor. Someone was skilling up on fillets. I filled my mule with what was on the vendor. I changed them all to fillets in cream. I never had to make more the whole time I was skilling up on HMPs. Now I have about four backpacks left and the pies are trivial. I loaded them on my vendor and I make attractive selling points...

"Skill up baking fast! Let me do the work for you! WTS *list your items here*."

I have sold nearly all fairly quickly, there are always people power skilling that don't care about spending money so much as saving time.

Give it a shot, what do you have to lose?

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[Quinner Sparrowhawk]

Thanks

Thanks for all of the advice, especially from Idana and Morani. I ended up dumping my fillets on some vendor but will use the test market advice to see what is profitable. I'm not looking for phat lewt, just a reliable source of plat that would also fill a needed niche.

[sir0die]

go to a newbie area and either give them away, or trade them for something else, like maybe trade a stack of filleted wolf for a few spiderling silks. Or offer to trade a stack or 2 for some pelt other than ruined.

or just give them to newbies. I found that if you offer to trade them for something you'd normaly have to farm (in my case it was mammoth meat) the newbie will remeber and offer them when they get it.

I was trading banded mail pieces (a full set of banded cost me 50plat) one day for a minimum of either a stack of wolf meat or 5 mammoth meats (in EF).

one of the guys that took me up on the deal sent me a tell the other day, he had 19 STACKS of mammoth meat, now for those who know how to make Halas pies, 19 STACK will make a crap load of pies.

[Morani]

<still laughing at the mental image that conjures>
19 stacks of mammoth meat traded at 5 / piece of banded mail is 76 PIECES of mail… With that much banded on, you couldn’t tell if is he was a male Barbarian or a FEMALE OGRE!

[sir0die]

he isn't expecting banded now, he's giving it to me now because he want to clear out some bank space. "Meat Mule reporting for duty sir"

[Morani]

<still laughing at the image>
That's a good thing. Still; it was the image (from the perspective of my wood elf) of a male barbarian dressed in banded mail and looking like the kid in "Christmas Story" (if you've not seen it, think 8 year old kid in 7 layers of warm clothing UNDER a snow suit, scarf, hat and mittens) while mom rant in the background about not getting eaten my polar bears....

[KyrosKrane]

Eggs (other than snake)

Why not snake eggs? They sell VERY well for me -- my fastest seller, I think, after padding and the odd Tae Ew Blood Vial. I price them at 1-2pp each, depending on the day's market. Given that basilisk, cockatrice, and other high-yield eggs are often priced 20pp or more EACH, a stack of snake eggs for 20pp is a very attractive option.

[Soulfiend]

I've began to make a roaring trade in Blessed Dust of Karana.

Basically cos I hate farming in NK.