Do these exist?

[Frankiebone]

I'm wondering if there are any recipes for any trade skill that can actually yield a profit when sold back to the vendor. Are all player crafted itemsjust money sinks, or are there any ones out there whee you can actually make a small amount of money by selling the crafted item back to a vendor?

I'm aware that there are plenty of crafted items that can be sold to other players for profit, but I was just wondering if I could counteract the amount of plat I spent fletching (or whatever) by selling my crafted items back to te vendor to make a tiny bit of money, or at least even out.\,

Thanks a bunch, and i'm sorry if this has been asked before. As you can see this is my first post on the forums. Thanks again!

[YurienStonebow]

the higher your CHA and faction the cheaper the materials and the more resell value you'll get

[vovinit]

Jewel crafting as a enchanter used to yield a profit if you enchanted the bars. they changed the buyback amount a few patches back so i dunno how that has affected it.

[Sanna]

The thing is....

Anything that is simple and yields a profit to a vendor can be macroable. People leave little programs running in relation to EQ, and they make profit by repeating a combine, over and over again. This is why Cultural Needles, which used to yield a 7p profit, no longer sell to the vendor for anything.



Technically....

If you farm all your own ingredients, there are still a few recipes that will yeild approx 4p per success. But it takes a lot of farming to even get 100p of profit from combines like those.



I see the sense in the repeated decisions to cut down resell-prices, especially with the idea of stopping macroers. No one needs to be making profit through use of an outside program. But I still wish even some monetary investment could be gotten back. If I, as a noob, loot a Ruined Cat Pelt, I should be rewarded for applying skill and turning it into a mask before selling it to a vendor, versus just selling them a ruined animal pelt. Thanks to macroers, this cannot be the case.


I think this is why so many people start tradeskills with baking and brewing... at least then, you can directly consume the results yourself, and it does not 'feel' like a plat sink.


-- Sanna

[Elinea]

It's really a shame they couldn't make the resale value of player made items at least to break even, or even a plat or two under.

For instance, I'm in the final stages of tailoring, working on reinforced acrylia armor. If I don't have the hours to spend farming bricks of acrylia and flawless rockhopper hides, I check out the bazaar vendors. The hides are costing me about 300pp each and the acrylia is about 100pp a brick (175pp if I get already made boning). Not counting the paeala bark tannin, thats 400pp per attempt. The finished product sells to a vendor for 1 or 2 pp. The bazaar is flooded with acrylia reinforced masks with a going price around 10pp. Either way, I'm losing a ton of money =/ I imagine by the time I finish tailoring, my husband will be having to wipe the drool from my chin, or just have me committed

/babbles incoherently.

[Frankiebone]

Thanks for all the responses! Well I guess i'll need to save up some money then, sounds like this is going to be expensivo.

[eniamn]

brewing is cheapest.
depending on bazaar baking is next cheapest.
jc is about 10k to grand master if you do it right and the rng doesn't really hate you. easiest combines and all vendor
smithing is pricey but can do ss armor for cheap
tailoring is pricey in bazaar or everything is loot foragable yourself but much harder to get.
pottery i dont do much.

[Nihixul]

There is a totally storebought item, used for skillups, that can be sold for a SIZABLE profit. I found this out the other day, quite unintentionally, while doing a skill-up run. I immediately /bug'ed it, then quite humorously crashed.

I won't give any more info (so please don't ask), because I don't want to see people flooding to use it. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next patch. For reasons I will also not give here, it is quite apparent that this was a simple oversight on the part of the developers (i.e. really a bug).

FWIW, JC and smithing (early stages at least) have a very nice sell-back rate.

[eniamn]

silvered picks are fixed now right? think they computed price for oak bow staff instead of oak shaft to get the sell back price where it is. can anyone confirm if they are?