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LTB ALL gems for 600!!!!!
NOWAY!

I am seeing a trend maybe... Peeps wanting to buy yer gems at reduced prices of 500-750 tunars. Please, just tell these peeps that you will not sell them your gems for that price! Maybe it will shame them in going away!

The way I see it...u want to buy me gems...u WILL pay me 1000 apiece. PERIOD!

Sorted gems I will sell for a min of 1200.
Rare gems I will sell for 5000.
If I cant sell em for that, I WILL sell them to a merchant before I let some greedy chump get em.

Greed of peeps still amaze me!

I agree whole heartly Sing. And there are plenty of knowledgable crafters around who are more than willing to buy rares at 5k. Mistwalker on PPO is good for that with Jewelry gems, as is Mr Ocean with weaps.

as a crafter theres many reasons for buying gems at different rates.

as a lvl 7 armor i make about 1500 tunar from a crafted piece of armor with a common gem (selling to a merchant

i buy them for about 1000

this leaves me with a 500 profit but however armor isnt always created with the first try sometimes takes two or three times.

after buying crafting for a hour i make about 100k using 500k buying armor gems

if you buy for more then you well get more customers

I usually hold rare gems like blue diamonds and starfire rubys. eventially i can sell em for 5k. As for other more common gems i try to give those to other group members while xpn. I request armor gems. Im lvl 10 armorer so i pay for repairs and profit some this way.
I also buy armor gems and always offer 1k. Usually ill give a bonus for alloys or a good quantity. But i dont announce this. Just a nice suprise for those who do business with me. Most of the time i buy when somneone is buying all gems or specific gems for under 1k. At least i can help releave the stress for those who only wish for a fair price.
Selling can be quite profitable. Ofcourse these do stack. and if someone offered me a stack of 50 for 1100 tunar each i would most likley take it. Do the math thats a lot of tunar.
Not that i would ever make an alt bank(wink wink)but these might come in handy for storing gems.
Ya dont sweat that ya let that
LEMME HEAR YER WAR CRY!!!! GRAAAAA!!!!
Proud elder of THE ONE
ALCHOLICA

Ive made it a habit to arrange my gems prior to selling. I even do it in the field. That way if someone is paying more for assorted gems there ready and i can skip over them. And sell the others quickly. Thats if i have any others than armor with which I craft.
YA DONT SWEAT THAT YA LET THAT
LEMME HEAR YER WAR CRY!!!! GRAAAAAA!!!!
Proud elder of THE ONE
Castle lightwolf
ALCHOLICA

Yes sorting is easy, once you learn what gems go for what. You can also use eqoatrade.com to help sort, it doesnt do tailoring but it does the rest ok. How I feel is the easyiest way to sort is to use the bank, put all of on kind in and when you get them seperated pull them out again. This also works with a full bank, since the gem ends up on the bottom of the inventory screen. I just find doing this is easier then trying to use the manual inventory sort option.