What should I sell in the bazaar?

[Cinge the Enchanter]

This is my first post everyone, so go easy on me.

I've been tradeskilling since level 1 with my enchanter(37), and I have reached 220 in JC and 150+ in all others atm. But, I have no money(a common occurence). I've seen threads on vendor diving to make profit.

I would like a list of items that i can look out for when I'm vendor diving, being that I have recently acquired the lastest 4 expansions and do not know all the new items available. Some items I obviously pass up on buying because I just do not know what's worth what.

So, even one or two items will help out, since I solo quite a bit. Obviously Spiderling Silk is one...I'll name that out first..
Blue Diamonds? How much profit on those?

Cinge of Povar(Rodcet Nife)

[Tanliel]

To be honest, the best thing to do is look through the recipes, taking note of interesting combines and then what is needed to make them. For vendor diving, you just cant beat knowing what things are for. I'll still occasionally find good stuff stuck on out of the way vendors.

If you're going hunting for parts, try to have an idea of what you're looking to sell. Silks are easy to get and more plentiful these days, but offer no xp opportunities either. Blue diamonds? Some good recipes for those and they drop in some nice places for xp.

Augments and their associated drops are good to do, but so rare that there is no farming ANY of those pieces. They are completely and utterly Random. You can hunt for weeks and not see anything drop.

Again, pick a trade or two, peruse the recipes and find what you can.

[Ysall]

If you are seeking to make profit generally, then buy every diamond, jacinth, black saphire, and blue diamond you see on a vendor. If you got trawling through PoK, Guild Lobby, Nedaria/Natimbi port mages etc, I guarantee you will find these, and can make quite a decent premium selling them in the bazaar.

If you are seeking to use your JC to make profit, then look for recipies that make pre-combine ingrediants for other tradeskill.s For example, champagne magnums for Brut Champaigne (triv 300+) will sell quite well, and you should be able to charge 'cost of materials + 50%' quite easily.

On my server, one player has specialised in making celestial essence. It only sells for 5-7 plat, but many recipies need it, and the sickle people use to skill up in smithing needs 9 per combine. He makes very little profit per sale, but people buy by the thousand, and his turnover is just huge.

I personally am always looking for pages or runes I can use to skill up my research. You can buy them from vendors and pay a maximim of 3pp, but every once in a while, you will find a valuable page someone sold without realising the value and make a killing.

The key issue here is bulk. If you are selling one page of Nilitims Grimoire Page 401 for 10pp, I won't come near you, its not worth the effort of walking. But if you sell 20 x Nilitims Page 401, and 20 x Nilitims 400, I'll happily pay 50pp per page, simply becuase you have made life easy for me, and I will get 20 research combines in one trip to your sales mule.

In the days of Wyvern Hide recipies being Triv 300+, small pieces of velium made great money. If you could provide them in bulk (e.g. 20+ pieces) you could charge more than people only selling 1 or 2 becuase you made it worth peoples while to come find you.

[Liwsa]

Browse your /bazaar and your /barter.

See what folks are selling and what folks are looking to buy is always a good start.

[Neebat]

Dumpster Diving to sell in bazaar

As a gnome tinker, I never, ever pass up a coiled spring. Always, always buy these things from vendors.

Having said that, check the /barter window on your server. If anyone is seeking things, note the prices and keep yours eyes open as you dumpster dive. The things they want are usually good buys on vendors, but just because someone is buying in bazaar doesn't mean you should sell to them. Look up the recipes and find out if it's something YOU can do for a profit or skill up. Also compare the bazaar list to the buyer list.

For example, Slugworms typically sell for 20-30k on my server, and there's often multiple buyers seeking them, but the buyers never offer more than 5k. If you ever find them on a vendor for 2cp, you KNOW you should buy them. Then you have the option of the quick sale at 5k or auctioning a couple times at 10-20k.

Now, that's the DUH stuff. Easy to recognize, rare to actually find. (Though I'm still curious why someone paid me 50k for a slime crystal staff.)

You can also look for things other tradeskillers are overlooking. There's often niches that no one is bothering with. For example, my wife does the JC in the family. Whenever she makes anything with Nihilite or Geodes, it sells quickly for a good amount. Nihilite is a VERY common find on the vendors in Abysmal and Natimbi, tons of jewelers COULD make it, but on my server, all the high level jewelers consider this market beneath them. There's a lot of pent up demand from twinks and alts.

I don't think anyone is going to give you a more specific list, because it's very server specific. If they did make a list, it would be HUGE, because there's thousands of items people sell to vendors that would be valuable to a tradeskiller. The number of research components alone that go to vendors breaks my heart.

[Sharrien]

Look thru the threads that talk about what recipes people are using to grind skill ups. Those are the things that people will want in mass quantities and are probably willing to pay you to get rather than farm themselves. Good examples of things you can find on venders that people buy for mark ups in the bazaar are shissar scales, tainted planar essence and blue diamonds.

Your server may vary. Check out current bazaar prices before you blow all your money on a vender dive.

[mithridate]

When looking at the recipe lists, consider Tinkering 200ish+ items, Pottery PoP items, Smithing PoP, GoD and DoN items, Fletching PoP and GoD+ items, Alchemy 276+ items, JC 283+ items, a bunch of Tailoring stuff, Research 185+ items. Listing the individual items here would take the fun out of the discovery process.

[Tiroon]

Look what players are willing to buy through barter. It is the list you're asking for and has the added advantege to be specific to your server.

With 150+ an all tradeskills you will be planning your next steps and be conning the skill-up paths to see which one is non-kos to you. Collect from whatever source what you need for the subcombines and sell excess subcombines.

Research the guides' "quick and expensive" skill-up routes. Many need subcombines made in part from loot. Look for that loot on vendors.

[Woadan]

From my own vendor experiences on Stromm:

There is a barter buyer who pays 350 per blue diamond..he gets my business netting around 90p profit per. Alternatively you could sell in bazaar for a higher price if you wish.

I can't keep zombie skins on my trader. I happily sell them for 100p per stack. These are very plentiful on PoK vendors.

Purescale ore is showing up fairly frequently. Sells very briskly for around 500p each.

I run across on average one jade shard per day. Can't keep them in stock at 250p.

Acrylia studded sells pretty well, tunics going for 1k are fairly common.

I buy a fair amount of the shadowscream armor from vendors making about 50p profit per piece.

Mt. Death Mineral Salts show up on vendors now and again, these sell briskly at around 10p each.

Eggs!! Any darn egg that is tagged as tradeskill gets snatched up as soon as I log on my trader.

Any mq/hq cat, bear, wolf hide sells quickly.

I sell 3-4 embroidery needles a week for 30p each.

Most of the rest is just random finds. While the profits from the individual sales may seem small, the cumulative totals are pretty decent. I try to hit the vendors in PoK (including and especially the spell vendors in the library, seems many folks don't want to deal with checking them), the vendor in Gunthak, and make the rounds of all of the maguses...takes about 45-60 minutes or so. Oh yeah, don't forget the little guys in the guild lobby who you buy the corpse summoning doodads from. Be especially vigilant for the 1-3 day period after a patch!!

Hope this helps,
Woadani
62 beasty
Stromm

[Amaruk]

Vendor diving for profit

While all the suggestions are good they are all tradeskill oriented and if you are looking for items for resale these are mostly small profits. If you want to make some SERIOUS profit look up some of the quest items. Take a look at the OoW quest armors and what drops are needed then look them up on your server to get an idea of which ones are most wanted. They all cost 1cp from merchants and if you get lucky and find the right one you can resell it for 20kpp easy. Ashlock branches seem to go for that much on Bertox and there are several others that go for upwards of 2kpp.

Thats 1999pp 9gp 9sp 9cp of profit per item you find.. Even if you find one of the more common items if you sell it for 1pp that is still a 1000x profit.

There are other examples as well if you take the time to try and look them up.

Good luck.

[Raolinx]

Ff5000

Go to freeport and buy Fuzzlecutter Formula 5000 (enduring drink) off the gnome in the noob area. Little over 5 plat a stack. Resell at 1 plat each. Maybe make up a batch of Patty melts. Again sell at 1 plat each. I can't keep em in stock and can make around 5k a week when no one else is selling. Basically its a convience thing. Go fishing in AS and sell the tuna and crab. there are always bakers looking for this stuff to raise stats.

Make up some of the batters for the Tuna and crab and sell for a decent profit. That way whoever is PLing at Baking can just buy from you and get it all done.

You use to be able to set up right next to a tradskill container in the old bazzar and sell stuff to who ever was there doing tradskills. I'm Talking Flasks of water here. Something that easy. But thats over since the revamp.

Rao