more ideas to make money in bazaarFollow

For those of you wanting to earn cash in bazaar, here are some more suggestions. These items go for between 10pp and 200pp each on Bristlebane, on average, depending on rarity, and stack nicely. Used in illusion potions. I do not know how it is on other servers, but I cannot find enough of them on mine. Of course only 3 of you can do this per server or prices will come down. No fighting.

Meat or Parts of playable races:
Barbarian
Dark Elf
Dwarf
Erudite
Froglog (Blood, NOT meat)
Gnome
Half Elf
Halfling
High Elf
Iksar
Wood Elf
Van Shir
Human, Ogre, Troll (less plat very common 1-10pp)

I know where to farm them, thanks to Alla but I really want to buy them. I already spend so much of my game time in marketing, shopping, and making potions, that I do not want to spend even more farming.

I know a lot of them can drop from lowish level mobs, like barbarian parts from spiders in Everfrost. It's a very good way for the younger set to make plat, AND save me farming time.

Here are my easiest ways of making plat in the bazaar. This won't make you rich but for anyone starting out it is a good source of income.

Most people as they play the game rely on the bazaar for everything but it doesn't have many items that are sold in home towns or in POK.

I sell regularly on my trader the follow that I purchase in my home town.

Black Ceremonial Coffins (Hometown cost 3pp, I sell for 50pp)

Fish Scales (Hometown stack is nearly nothing in cost, I sell for 1pp each)

Parchment Paper (Hometown stack a few coins, I sell for 1pp each)

Quils (Hometown stack a few coins, I sell for 1pp each)

Pumice I found out by accident sells like mad in the bazaar. I sold some this weekend but I haven't figured out the profit on it as of yet since I didn't buy what I had.

I can't keep the Black Ceremonial Coffins in stock, if I put 10 on my trader by morning they are purchased. So that 30pp suddenly becomes 500pp. You do the math for people in a hurry!

Sure you can.......but who thinks of that when frantically wanting a coffin to get thier body back? Who really knows Shadowheaven well enough to find it? Also remember I am on RZ so who wants to go naked into another PK zone? LOL Got to love the economy on a PVP server!!!!

Good ideas Josette. I do some of that too.

I still think selling a stack of 20 meat for the amount they sell for is a nice profit, when you are hunting the areas anyway. I had to quit paying 100pp each for Iksar meat, because I could not sell the potions for a profit easily anymore. I sold all meat I got to merchants at lower levels thinking it wasn't too useful. Now I shop every single day for meat and parts listed in my first post, and never find enough. People are wanting to buy the potions and I can never get enough meat, and like I said I bazaar hard enough, I am not wanting to farm.

The rarest are high elf, van shir, wood elf, and iksar.

Mammoth meat sells well in the Bazaar on my server (Saryrn). It is used for meat pies, and is not vendor sold anywhere. The selling price ranges from 5-15 plats depending on the supply.

Samft plotted:

The primary mistake you have made here is in outlining a scheme for engaging in an immoral and dishonest business practice.

What you are suggesting is that players carry out an elaborate con opperation in order to swindle other players out of goods that may very well have been priced fairly in the first place.

Do you behave this way in the real world?

Do you steal from neighborhood business' where you live? Do you change price tags where you shop and tell yourself that you're not hurting anyone or that the store was charging too much anyway?

And if so, where do you draw the line? Do you cheat a friend? Or the friend of a friend?

Your seeming lack of basic values like honor and honesty is more than a bit disconcerting. You may not be concerned for the Kharmic debt you're piling up but most people are.

Please rethink this attitude. This game should be a place where fantasies can be played out in relative exclusion from real world ugliness. This kind of scam just brings that ugliness in to our little world too.

One last thing for you to consider, how would you feel if you found that after all your hard work, someone had scammed and cheated you out of your fair profit on the items you had struggled to aquire, bring to the bazaar and sell?

If none of this has made an impression on you, then at the very least, please set up on a Zek server. There, you will ultimately learn some humility when your scam is discovered.

I actually agree with you Blue Dragon. Sadly I don't have an account on EQ right and I've never actually done this because I'm not willing to take the effort to do it and I've never had fund problems when playing it in the past, but in the spirit of the topic I thought up the idea incase anyone wanted to use. I don't want to sound like I took offense by what you said but trying to earn money in a game really has nothing to do with trying to scam products from one company only to sell it to another for my own evil games, yeah well that doesn't really work when you're 17. Sorry if I sounded immoral on my previous post but it was just an idea, and money makeing was the whole point of the post, not morality..........

Edited, Wed Jul 21 02:27:04 2004 by Samft

Black Ceremonial Coffins (Hometown cost 3pp, I sell for 50pp)

Holy Resurrections Josette! No kidding?

All this time I've been telling folks *exactly* where to find them in my starting city of...heeeey, wait a minute. ;-}

"bring out your dead..."

Just a quick note, for those as Samft, but who actually carry out what he says :

The immoral, unprincipaled, thieving cowards do exist in the bazaar, and one is named Astrika on my server.

They will exploit any weakness in other players and the 'system' - the operational laws as laid down by Sony in the functional behavior of the bazaar. As such, they say "if it can be done, fine. If you make a mistake, and I profit from it, it is your loss. If you ask to correct a mistake - you are just a dumb bunny. Good riddance!"

In my particuliar instance, the perputuator was a coward as she never responded to my very polite entree's to correct a mistake I made placing an item in my trader bag I never ment to sell. She was a thief when she finally sold it one week later, finally responding : "you should ask the person I sold it to to sell it back to you". This is life in the bazaar. Some fantastic people in the bazaar on my server : Moonunit, Sahn (forget your traders name!) some bad, and a lot of good hard workers. And the thiefs and cowards. At least if you are going to steal, admit it. Do not hide, and do not try to justify it.

For Samft : I read you second post, and thank you for it, as you state you did not actually do the price rigging you presented as an option. As much as each player seems to say the game is 'just a game - it is not real life', it is my observation, and I say again, in my observation : we bring our ethics and principal into Everquest. Particuliary in the Bazaar where greed and short term profit is a goal. Those who will exploit the system is one thing; those who exploit individuals and simple mistakes, are another. Those who exploit individuals and mistakes, and justify it, I do not want to meet in real-life, as they probably do the same.

My bottom line : if selling in the bazaar, bring your ethics, your true ethics, to the bazaar. Help the newbies and the experienced. Do not exploit my weakness, my mistakes, my good faith, or others. Rather enable and bring to the plate a goodness that we do not see in the corporate marketted greedy world we deal with each day.

And remember one subtle thing : many of the players are very young. These are the sons and even daughters of mothers I call friends on the servers I play on. You, and I, do not know this. But they interact with us, with our characters, with how we play the 'game', be it in groups helping, or in the bazaar thieving.
And we know, most who post here being adults, how very quick they learn and extrapolate what they see.

If a trader agrees to sell for a lesser price, it cannot be called theft. It's called bargaining. It can be as much fun as the rest of the game, if you are a savvy trader/buyer.

When items are going for an insane price, like Water flask 1,000,000pp etc, I think they are "buying" plat,l just my opinion.

I have no intention to borrow or lend money but I never thought of that - quite an idea :)

I'm just curious, you could do carrot running quests or the like to gain xp...which is as painfully slow as the continental drift. OR...you can slash, burn, poison and villainously MURDER to gain XP. So when people say we should be polite in the bazaar, easy on the cursing, bleh-bleh-bleh....that's retarded considering what you actually do in this game. This game is for adults, and if parents understand that their kids will be creating killing machines, then adult consequences come with it. WOOOOOT!!! SPRINGERS FINAL THOUGHT, BOYS AND GIRLS! I expect plenty of tree-hugging, non-reality responses in return that will not logically compensate for an argument. Thank you. :D