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Arawon  1 star
Posts: 78
Registered: 2004-1-12 16:24:38
sinhika posted:

In my experience, Molvik potions (Improved/Level 30 Haste/Shardskin/Replenishment/Invig/Mending) sell quite well at 10 gp ea.; single-buff pots at 5 gp ea., and double-buff pots at 10 gp ea. I suspect that Thid-level pots would sell well, but don't have enough room on my CM to sell both Molvik & Thid pots. Nereid potions sell well at 20gp ea, but the margins are very thin at that price; I only put them up as a public service.

On the other hand, Strong (level 40) potions move very slowly; I suspect most people at that level have bots and don't bother, or make their own. I find that the "healing" type potions (Healing/Power/Endurance) sell much more slowly than "regen" type potions (Invigoration/Replenishment/Invigoration). The market for those is also streaky; I'll have weeks where no one buys a power pot, then someone comes along one day and buys all of them.

Windwalkr, just because you have the patience of a gnat on caffeine doesn't mean the rest of us can't take the 3 minutes to whip up a batch of 20 pots and stock them on our CMs.



10 gold for a potion is not much given the time to level up, the actual cost and the costs of items on the explorer.. There are a whole lot faster ways to make money

 

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therealchiricahua
Posts: 21
Registered: 2009-9-11 08:26:22
Windwalkr posted:

I think many people use automated scripts to make pots, because no one in their right mind would sit there and manually make pots and sell them at the prices they're selling for. (I'm talking about END3 pots for 10-12g and things like that. No way am I wasting my time making a pot for that kinda low return.)



No script required. Just a grasp on simple math. If a potion costs 1.75 gold to make in materials and only 5 seconds to watch the green bar - then selling it for 10 gold ( over 500% markup ) is smart! Really smart.

So how smart is a person if they are going to turn their nose up at that kind of return?

I can't keep my CM stocked with pots and crafted items. I have to spend at least 1 hour out of every five played to keep up with the demand and orders. Because I don't over charge people in game. I make it a point to price my goods at the lower end of the market average.

You have to ask yourself - do you want fast dimes, or slow dollars? You will wait a few days before somebody slips that single dollar bill neatly into your pocket, but in the mean time I have counted over 500 dimes.
AngharadMacsen  1 star
Posts: 155
Registered: 2003-3-11 08:41:31
Arawon posted:

10 gold for a potion is not much given the time to level up, the actual cost and the costs of items on the explorer.. There are a whole lot faster ways to make money



And yet, I've managed to skill up three omni-legendaries with the coin each made selling potions for 10g or less per.

You can price your potions as high as you think you deserve to get paid. But as long as you're charging more than I am, you won't sell all that many potions. And I'll be refilling my merchant every morning and every evening.

 

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