Are people hard up for blocks of magic clay?

[mewkus]

I have my bazaar vendor set up near the pottery wheel and whenever I'm not busy I start to make some lacquered opals and blocks of magic clay and store them on my vendor until I'm ready to do a run of stiens. When I do my pottery, I just buy the stuff off my vendor. I had initially set the price for my blocks of magic clay at 40pp each. And loaded her up with 10 stacks of them. After a couple days, someone else came by and bought all of them. Cleaned me out.

I kind of had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, they did take all the magic clay I had stored up, but on the other hand, I did make a decent sum of money. And to be honest, I kind of felt bad that someone paid so much money for something that's so easy to make (mass enchant clay is a level 8 chanter spell and clay costs about 2p per stack).

To avoid this from happening again, I upped the price for my magic clay to 75pp per block. Loaded up another 7 stacks of them and started making plans to block some time to make some lacquered opals.

Well, not two days go by and someone else comes and cleans me out of magic clay again. This time at 1500pp per stack. The first person I thought was just someone with more plat than brains, but this has now been two people who've bought my way over priced clay. I'm starting to wonder if it's worth spending the time going out and killing stuff to collect money when people are willing to fork over plat for something that's so easy to make.

Mind you, I'm not complaining or nothing, just really puzzled by this.

Well, I'm gonna run off and make more clay again. This time I'm upping my prices to 90pp each.

[Aalar]

I have had this experience on other items as well. I placed an item for sale at 10,000 plat. I wasn't sure I wanted to sell it since it was a nice twink item. I figured at that price nobody would buy it. However, somebody bought it a few days later.

It seems no matter the price there just might be a buyer out there. I guess if I had more plat than I knew what to do with I might not care what I paid for an item either.

Though I must say that, as of right now, I will not pay too much for the items I want so as to not raise (screw over) the prices for other people.

Aalar

[fesc_necrado]

Availability of magic clay (on Fennin Ro at least) is spotty at best. While I usually only pay 40-60 plat per stack, I can understand impatience getting the best of some people and paying more...tho the prices listed in the first post seem really high.

I'd guess many high lvl enchanters with the mana pool to cast a lot of these aren't interested in the normally small monetary gain. Low level enchanters that are new players could use the cash but the mana cost might deter them from making stacks and stacks.

I always seem to find a few items that feed trade skill ups just aren't available all the time in the bazaar. I've had to raise other skills to feed another (taking JC so I could lacquer stuff for pottery comes to mind).

Right now I'm stuck in that I can't find enough clear mana and soon cloudy mana to feed pottery skill ups. Since I'm not an enchanter, the only possibilities are buying in bazaar or asking enchanter friends at the right time. Hell, I even posted in the marketplace here for 800 vials..no takers yet.

[Ixiola]

Wow, I never considered stocking that. Like you, I thought it would be easy to get. We regularly stock distilled mana and purified mana on our mule as those have high demand for pottery and require a 39 and 49+ level enchanter respectively. But enchant clay is a really low level spell.

Hmm... maybe I should stock some clay.

[Koru]

Very different from server to server I see, the average price of the clay on Xev is 2pp. There's also quite quite a lot of it up for sale at any given time, so very unlikely that that price will change.

[cattywumpus]

Enchanters hold a strangehold on that market. If a player doesn't know any enchanters it can be a major pain to get enchanted clay on some servers. The Bazaar has helped a lot but it can still be troublesome. Same with mana vials.

At one point I was offering 250pp a block to get an enchanter to enchant some clay for me and it took a couple of hours to find one willing to do it. Some just don't want to be bothered and others don't buy the spell.

My Bazaar mule is an enchanter now so I don't have to suffer the outrageous prices some of them charge for their services.

[Boleslav]

250pp a block? Ouch! Before I leveled my chanter alt I had to get a lot of Brellium enchanted for old school cultrual, I also still need to find a Cleric of Brell to imbue rubies on occasion.

Here are a couple tricks I have used for situations like that.

First, I would buy a copy of the spell and have it with me. When a caster replied that they did not have the spell, I would mention that I can supply it. I had good success getting the folks to enchant/imbue a few when I supplied the spell.

I suspect you did a /w all enchanter 8 65. I tired to focus on people in 'non-busy' zones. I was always willing to travel to the person though.

Of course times have changed a bit. Back when I needed stuff enchanter, you could bet that a 30th level cleric would welcome the pp you would pay to have rubies imbued. However, the higher level enchanters were always hard to chase down.

Boleslav Forgehammer
Paladin of Brell in his 65th Campaign
E'ci - Sacred Destiny

[Koru]

65th lvls usually are busy, or value their time at a somewhat higher price. I found on my enchanter people don't ask as much at lower levels, then as you get higher you get asked more because people know you have more mana, better regen and it will take less time for you to do the imbues. When I say lower I meant when I was 49-60th lvl and therefor could imbue all but PoP gems. But then finding the 65th to imbue for you can take more time than to wait for a lower level to med back up. A definite tradeoff there unless you're friends with a chanter.