Bazzar Guide - So you want to make money?Follow

Im writing this post because of the numerious people I have seen with a complete missunderstanding of how the bazzar works.
Aproximatly 50% of the people who have set up a bazzar do not know how to determine the bazzar price. So i will explain in the following.


STEP 1. Price determination
First step to determing the prices of the goods your going to sell. The best way to find the price which you should be selling your items for is to check your local Auction House. Make sure that you check the price of the items in the defalt color. The items listed in Red are "cost per stack" where a stack is 12 of that item. If you must use an an item listed in red to determine your prices, make sure you divide the price by 12 to get the "cost per item".

STEP 2. Setting the prices at your Bazzar
Now you know the average sales price, its time to set up your Bazzar. This is where i see most people going wrong. Go to the Bazzar menu and select an item you wish to sell. When allocating a price to that item, be sure to allocate the "cost per item" value. This is done because people can choose the number of the stacked item they wish to purchase and are not restricted to purchasing the entire stack. It is good to check the bazzar and refresh the value of your goods each day to ensure you are selling your goods at the best price.

STEP 3. Finding a good place to sell
There are a number of good places to sit and wait for people to come buy your goods. Any place that attracts regular idle player traffic is a good place to wait.
The best places include;
- At the Auction House
- At the Residential area
- At the outpost's

STEP 4. The waiting game
Differant hours of the game attract differant customers, so choose which time of the day you find you sell more of your goods. If you have to stop playing for an hour to two, sit your character down at your favorite Bazzar spot and turn your monitor off. This is a great way to minimise the boredom of sitting and waiting for people to buy your goods. Alternativly, if you can afford it, you can synthisise more goods to sell.

For those of you who want to go AFK for extended periods of time, but cant seem to stay connected you need to turn the Auto-disconnect option to OFF. You can do this by going to Menu#2 > Config > Global > and clicking on the OFF button in the "Auto-disconnect" section



I hope this has helped some of the people who may be wondering why people are not buying there earth crystals for 500-1000gil per crystal.

Edited, Sun Jan 18 04:17:41 2004 by Abyssus

Excellent post!

I've explained to several people who have one earth crystal for sale at 500 gil that no one is going to buy it.

Sometimes they catch on quick, others have accused me of trying to scam them.

I would only suggest that people circulate their items between auction house and bazaar that aren't selling. Keeping an item that isn't selling in either place needs to be considered why that is.

I usually put "rare" items up for auction, and items that are of lower value in my bazaar.

If I am traveling in between places, I may put something I've found up in my Bazaar.

Good post.

Thanks for the post I wasnt really sure how it worked so I tried both ways:)

nice post, that would explain why no one is buying my 10k silk threads :)

I think a good adition to this game would be to add color coding to your bazaar sacks. Maybe 1 color for each of the guilds.

This way, if Im doing a lot of goldsmithing, I can do a quick scan of the bazaars open for sacks that are colored 'gold' or whatever. Blacksmithing would be grey, leather craft would be brown, etc.

Then have the option for every color or no color on your bag if you are selling mixed items.

Focused sales.

Jaqen

I agree w/ you about people always crowding around the AH in San d'Oria to sell their goods. I get a ton of lag everytime I go to visit the AH. That's why I usually use the upstairs AH most of the time. But seriously, if you're running a bazaar in San d'Oria please don't crowd around the AH. And to all of you who do run bazaars in front of the AH, when there are 50 people all selling stuff in the same area, you don't stand out in the crowd, SO MOVE TO A LESS CROWDED SPOT!!!