Market Musings

[Menset]

The EC market is funny and prices can have a large variance. When in sell mode, I collect tradeskill goods while watching the market chatter. I've been trying to sell banded armor as a variation from the usual. Had a person looking for banded or bronze. I /who and see he is a wood elf - small. I sent a /tell saying I could get him a set for 80pp but he only had 60 - no sale. Just before logging an hour later, I saw him in /auction looking for banded/bronze again. I log in Yvenia and send him a tell offering a set for 90p and we settle on 85. It's in the noise, but does reinforce market variance. Been wanting a stein of moggok for tradeskills and see the price vary from 100 to 350pp. Trivial when you have 100k pp, but a huge difference when scrapping for every pp.

I think Menset retired seeing hundreds of thousands of PP. It just takes finding the right niche. Not sure where that is in EQ classic yet but it's fun to watch.

[Cabkin]

I've never seen a Stein of Moggok for 100p, would easily pay 200 for one.

The standard rate for banded is 1PP per AC and I thought 90P for a complete set was the norm. My blacksmith has sold a few odd pieces and maybe one complete set but it is a lot of work and running around to make a set.

It sure was a lot easier on the old EQ where you could just park a character in the bazaar, put up a for sale sign, and go AFK.

[Menset]

Banded moves slowly. As I head to EC, I do a /who in Nek forest and give a single call out to sell banded at a reduced price ~80p for a full suit. Sometimes I get a buyer. I get 30-50pp profit when selling at 1pp/ac. Not very time effective compared to bone chips, but it gives me a tradeskill path other than doing 100 cloak combines and dump to vendor. I don't care to give more than a half dozen /WTS before I go farm silks or get bored and log in my ranger.