Postby Valgarv » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:54 am
Prawn crackered lol. Only because you are several levels below me!
A lot of people think I'm a twink due to my enchants, for these I copied what others were doing to speed up my experience gain. My first enchant was minor beastslayer! Go me.
As for risk in trading patterns and recipe's, I don't really consider a purchase from a vendor of 20s up to 1g (and sometimes a tiny bit more) a risk. It takes all of 10-60 minutes of grinding to get your money back if things dont sell, and they always sell, it just takes a few days sometimes. I had this problem with a Skeletal club, bought it for 10g, below market value, slow sale so I let it go for a 2g profit. It still went below it's true worth of ~15g. Mind you, 2g in 3 days is still a heck of a yearly interest rate for a single item. Try getting that from HSBC!
You can always get your money back on such items at the very least, and some of the items I obtain are from areas that few can venture to in the lower levels either because they do now know where they are, or because it is too dangerous to do so. I simply asked for an escort on the first runs to some areas.
I believe my initial stake for the market trading amounted to around 10g at around level 20 and I borrowed half of it from a friend, the rest was made from instance runs. After a day I'd paid back my friend and had almost 20g in the bank. The rest as they say, is history.
A nice example. I've recently seen a certain mace on the AH for 3g! They are easily worth around 15-20g so nice profit there if someone is observant enough. Bingo, easy gold. As a matter of fact I announced in IF that there was a mace going for this price to try and help others instead of making a profit on it. Hopefully someone go their hands on it, a real bargain.
I'm going to give away all my trading secrets (:P tacky web site coming shortly) soon if I don't stop. Rest assured in that everything is above board and goes with the spirit of the game, just with a little added financial prudence.
Regards,
Valgarv