Selling back to venders question

[dov5731]

OK OK I am not trying to be lazy here. I have searched and searched the board and I just cant find an answer to this, PLZ HELP!!

I know that there are some items you can sell back to venders for profit.... Smoked Shark, JumJum Beer etc. but Shark meat is hard to find and rare to pharm, JumJum beer profit is very very low unless you pharm water and then its just very low (/snicker). I also know that most items that are profitable are trashed (toolboxes, shark meat in Thrug, Cam Bows, etc).

So I guess my quest here is what items make an ok profit when you sell them back to venders :?: :?: I have a dial up connection and cant leave a toon in bazaar to sell sell sell all day or night.

Feel Free to email me if you don't wanna post info -- thanks

[Delfontes]

This thread will self destruct in 10 seconds.

Per Sony policy, and something I very much agree with, you CAN NOT make money selling back to NPC vendors.

Any way to make money doing that is an Exploit, and thus not discussed on these forums.

Thanks

[Lothay]

Delftones is correct.

You can earn tiny amounts of coin on things, but those are usually eaten up by failures in the long run of skilling up.

~Lothay

[dov5731]

really????

[Delfontes]

Yes, really.

Actually if you're posting again, and actually curious, you may not know why people like me are so against it.

Basically anything that can profit buying/selling to vendors can be Macroed.

People have and will set up a macro, go to sleep, wake up with 10k PP the next morning. Maybe significantly more, depending on what combine they did 10,000 of during their sleep.

Making a few silver after combining and running around seems like a good idea for the time spent... but it is just too easily exploited.

In the past there have been many profit making combines, some for A LOT of profit, every time one is found, it is fixed.

Just takes them longer to get to the ones that don't make much of a profit.

[Cravin]

in the words of Shrek

Really Really!

Sorry ended up watching it twce last weekend

[Verdandi]

Yes. Any way to make a remotely significant profit by selling tradeskilled items back to vendors is, by definition, an exploit. Whenever one is discovered, it's fixed as soon as they catch it.

This does apply primarily to things made entirely out of vendor materials. Things that require ingredients that aren't sold by vendors and only drop off of creatures can sometimes yield a modest profit. I'm not sure exactly what their guidelines are there, but I've never noticed a way to make more than a few silver that way.

[Liwsa]

You can make a profit making jewelry IF you are an enchanter and enchant every bar. Is so small a profit not worth doing.

[Quesci]

Fishing nets a profit.

("Nets" get it?!? BWAHAHAHAHHA!)

[Darial1]

You got me hook, line, and sinker!

/duck

Darial -
SOON the madness will END!

[Morani]

Someone had to take the bait...

[Larong_Alsou]

The last couple of (serious) comments about fishing sparked my interest in this thread.

As a druid, with a nice forage skill (197) I get more than a few fishing grubs. Cost to me = nothing.

I can then sit down and use these fishing grubs to get fish (dur) and assorted other things. Now, aside from the cost of the odd fishing pole, everything I make selling the fish (fresh or other wise), scales, sandals and daggers is pure profit.

Even on my alts, where forage is not available or not reliable (Iksar for example, set at 50 and never increases) I can still use fishing to finance low level spells etc

Heres my reasoning : fishing pole ~1gp, fishing bait = 3cp per, stack = 6 silver. Fish sell back at ~1sp per, sandals and daggers ~1sp per. Assuming I always catch a fish, = 20, also assuming that I catch, something.... (which doesnt cost a bait) and get, for example 10 daggers and 5 sandals. I just made back the price of the fishing pole alone in that one set.

Is all this classed as an exploit??

Now I agree that I may be taking things to extremes here, and that the fishing example is assuming alot (high fishing skill for one), and that your not going to make vast sums of cash from fishing alone, but you have to admit that the principal is sound.

[Groghe]

Larong, your example isn't considered an exploit because its not macroable. you cant predict when your fishing pole might break and have to be replaced.

The exploit happens when a character sits in front of vendor A, buys items 1, 2 & 3 for Xpp, combines them a portable container to make item 4 and sells it back to the same vendor for Xpp + 1. A process that can and has been macroed.

[OberonMiM]

Im personally wondering when enchanted jewelry will be hammered by the nerf bat. Cause it will give you a profit

But for some things the loss is jsut too much to be reasonable now (take darkwood bows for instance. You loose 100plat ona success and they are theonly viable thing to skill up

[Cigarskunk]

The thing about the JC is that in order for that to work, the RNG has to play fair with you - I initially tried doing that with my troll SK when I was skilling up his JC (had my chanter bang out 10 stacks of silver for him) - while my chanter came out ahead, my SK came out behind from the experience, so as you can see, the RNG keeps things to the point that trying to make plat off of JC is really just Sony setting up it's own RNG casino with lousy pay offs.

As for fishing - didn't someone say that the fish in LoY around the lighthouse can sell back for a few gold each?