selling items - a study question

[Moraganth]

Yes, i could have started a thread in each of the subsections, but one thread is much easier to manage than two, and this is about all tradeskills.

For everyone out there who actually sells what they make, what are the items that are sold most, by skill? What do you make that you sell the most of; that's asked about the most; what's in demand.

No, i'm not interested in figuring out what i should stock on my mule, i already know what sells... what i'm interested in is seeing what other people see.

This is part of a project i've stated, and i'd love input from everyone that has active tradeskill item vendors. List what you have sell most, even if someone else lists the same.

Thanks for indulging me, and for your time.

[Maisie]

Tailoring : haversacks and hand made backpacks

I can not believe how many handmade backpacks there must be on Fennin Ro, I am hardly the only one who sells them the actual number must be astounding.


Smithing: tae ew shields

I have sold a bunch of these.

Pottery: elemental focus items and faith/spirit stones

I have not made a bunch of these but when I do they go quick.

[Nairn Niteraven]

First off, I'm a Druid, so I can forage. That skews my sales a bit from the generic.

Mainly Qeynos Afternoon Teas, they always move at about 15pp each as fast as we can forage the Leaves and I make them (this is on Veeshan).

Any forages I can't use go about as fast as we can put them up. I bought a stack of Misty Thicket Picnics last night for 4pp each; since I don't need them for skillups anymore, it's silly to spend time doing all those subcombines to make 4pp. My time's better spent foraging for Tea Leaves.

QAT's are our cash cow along with any forages, Leather Padding and Spider Silk.

(edit) The Spiderling Silk has become something of a nightmare to actually farm yourself at a higher level, so I'm not making as much Leather Padding as I did, but that's discussed in another thread

[Eleena Transient]

Ethereal Sheets. With 5 classes needing them, and molds being abundant, these move fairly well. Buy bricks for 5-10pp, spend 5pp to make a temper, sell sheet for 100pp

GoD weapons are selling currently, b/c they are the best ratios around, but with time even those will drop off.

[Draggar]

The basics,

Silk swatches, silk threads, HQ pelts, leather paddings etc..

Some not so basic,
Enchanted silver and electrum, magic clay, vials of vicious mana, foraged items (of all kinds),

My gnome's tinkering is also at about 151 so making geerlok has about a 50% success rate, and collapsibles have about a 25% success rate.

The un-basic
Misty picnics, various tannins, and the occasional Fier'Dal tailoring / fletching kit (BTW - are there tokens for these so I can sell them at the bazaar?)

[Akishka]

Acrylia studded cloaks. I don't undercut those doing it for skill ups but I still keep finding myself going back to these as they are a good profit.

Leather padding and silks, I'll third (fourth?) that call

[Aryse Andenter]

The stuff I regularly keep on trader because it sells at reasonable speed:

Tailoring - Handmade backpacks, rallic packs, lemming fur ones, etc. Some wu's gear.
Pottery - opal encrusted steins (ruby ones don't move at all)
Baking - mostly HMP, since they actually sell faster and for more than MTPs for me. Some GoD goodies.
JC - jade/nihilite/blue diamond/fire opal items, int/wis items
Tinkering - Geerloks, Necrotic divining devices, minimizing/maximizing devices, meteorological rockets. Occasionally collapsed items, but they are usually slow moving.

Brewing I keep for fun, nothing I can make easily moves out fast enough. Smithing skill-ups tributes for better than it sells, and don't move out quickly. Magic clay sells for me but enchanted metals just sit there until I use them.

[Rissenn]

Brewing: Qeynos afternoon tea.

Baking: Misty Thicket picnics.

General: Earring of the solstice, or parts for the earring.

Other tradeskills: Varies with what I find.

[andorf]

Baking: Tormentor Stir Fries, Hero Sandwiches
Brewing: Qyenos Afternoon Tea & Kaladim Constitutional

[Ixiola]

The items that sell the best for me (primarily due to supply/demand):

General: Distilled Mana, Purified Mana, and Artisan Seals

Tinkering: Collapsed mixing bowls, Corking Devices, Cheirometic lockpicks, and sewing geerloks

Tailoring: Robe of Intellect (gnome culteral)

Pottery: Faithstones (primarily Underfoot and Nature), Golden Idol of Tunare, Star Ruby Encrusted Stein

Fletching: Darts (whenever I get around to making them that is)

[Cerpicio]

As a GM tinker, the Minimizing devices always sold well and at a nice profit. The Maximizing devices sold occasionally too, so I usually stocked a couple of them. The necrotic devices didn't sell well though, which surprised me.

Collapsibles were another good item, usually the sewing and fletching kits. Geerloks weren't bad either.

But where I really made my money was off prismatic dyes. I haven't played much the last few months, but I've been selling them ever since they came out. I can't believe how well they sold, even many months after they were released. I thought they'd have saturated the market by now. I'd buy four stacks worth of components (~30p each so ~2400p total). I'd get a few failures, sell them at ~45p, and make about 1k each time I sold out. And many times I'd sell out in a day. I'd come home for work, make four more stacks, and set up show again for the evening.

Like I said though, I haven't played much lately, so I don't know if they are still hot. But they were a steady seller for a long time!


-- C.

[Verdandi]

On a regular basis:

Ethereal Metal Rings (same component costs as Eleena)
Barbarian Cultural Armor (I keep an almost full set of Helanic Tundra [all but cloak] and an Artificers bracer in stock, customers are very rare but tend to buy several pieces at a time)

Also sometimes:

Folded Medicine Bags (still trying to unload after an excessively optimistic purchase of ribbons when LoY went live)
Various potions as the mood strikes (sow, invis to undead, illusions all sell well enough)

[ancarett]

I bought my main a horse (along with a lot of other nice bazaar upgrades) by hawking LoY dyes:
Berry Dye (honey berries looted and foraged by my 40-something druid in the Dreadlands)
Ashen Dye (foraged by same druid while whacking basilisks for their eggs)
Lichen Dye (foraged again by one very bored druid who I played while watching TV or reading a book)

I also have done well selling leather padding, Halas 10 lb. Meat Pies and Kaladim Constitutionals.

[Kieroth_whiteleaf]

I don't do any bazaar sales, so my stuff is going to be a little different.

List of my stuff which "sells" well to guildies (high demand, but I don't charge any more than cost for guild members) and friends:

Smithing: LDoN armor - particularly gothic and sandblasted with a bit of deep cavern thrown in. USUALLY for twinks, mains are usually equipped better, although sometimes that fills in gaps. OCCASIONAL call for Cultural.

Tinkering: Collapsibles and rebreathers. I make cams for my own use in bows, but rarely give/sell any.

Fletching: Mostly bows - Nightmarewood and Blessed Faydark Thunderbolt being most common. Aside from arrows given to groupmates who run out, I don't believe I've ever given/sold arrows to anyone. Lower bows (shaped, 1cam, etc) to twinks occasionally.

Jewelcraft: My low skill, so I don't do much business - usually amber, jasper and star ruby rings/earrings. I barely do electrum, so MOST people have better than anything I can make. In my guild there's a high demand for the PoP jewelry, not sure if that's common.

Tailoring: Mostly wu's with a bit of studded/reinforced acrylia, the occasional bit of velious tailoring. Cultural robes move, but not as fast as produced for skillups. Almost all tailoring sales are to alts.

Baking: 10 lb halas pies and patty melts. Mostly because the patty melts are dirt cheap and last forever (plus I'm skilling up on them so have LOTS)

Brewing: Tempers and dye are the only things I sell. Occasionally at weddings I get a call for actual alcohol but otherwise nothing.

Research: Do a fairly brisk trade in swatches to tailors. MUCH more value there than spells as far as consistency and speed goes.

Note that because I pretty much only do things make-to-order, I don't keep a "stock" of items onhand, so items which might sell well (such as spells) but take longer to move aren't feasible to me since I don't keep a bazaar mule. Also, because I'm one of the only active tradeskillers in my guild, I get the majority of their business and frequent parts donations (especially ldon temper stuffs). So my results are definitely different than normal but I thought I'd include them for completeness' sake.

SFG