Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Vailen
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How do you get started as a merchant in the Bazaar?Follow
you need to but a traders bag from the merchant in the middle hall. He is on the right by himself. It costs about 3 plat or so and can hold 10 items. Then you place the items you want to sell in the bag.
After that you find a free space under the trader huts and type /trader. You will then need to set up the prices on each of your items. When all that is done (and double check your prices!!!), hit the "begin trader" button on the bottom right of the screen.
you are now in trader mode and will not eat anything so don't worry about your food supply. you will leave trader mode if you step out from under the canopy that runs the length of the trading area.
Hope that helps.
Bub
Edited, Mon Aug 9 16:10:38 2004 by bubspeed
After that you find a free space under the trader huts and type /trader. You will then need to set up the prices on each of your items. When all that is done (and double check your prices!!!), hit the "begin trader" button on the bottom right of the screen.
you are now in trader mode and will not eat anything so don't worry about your food supply. you will leave trader mode if you step out from under the canopy that runs the length of the trading area.
Hope that helps.
Bub
Edited, Mon Aug 9 16:10:38 2004 by bubspeed
Be really sure to check out the going prices on the items you are selling. A sword could go for 200pp average one day, then 600pp the next. It's really based upon the rarity of the item and common knowledge of the price, and what price the first few people that began selling the item that day decided on.
Just be careful not to get ripped off. If you see a sword that is average price 5000pp (and you have 1 to sell) and one trader happens to be selling it for 600pp, don't try to underpirce them; they obviously want to get rid of the item regardless of plat loss.
it is also helpful to your buyers if you organize your wares. Put all the runes, armor, spells, ect. togther. It makes it easier for buyers to find what they want.
hope I helped =)
Just be careful not to get ripped off. If you see a sword that is average price 5000pp (and you have 1 to sell) and one trader happens to be selling it for 600pp, don't try to underpirce them; they obviously want to get rid of the item regardless of plat loss.
it is also helpful to your buyers if you organize your wares. Put all the runes, armor, spells, ect. togther. It makes it easier for buyers to find what they want.
hope I helped =)
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Thanks everyone for the great tips!!! :)
You might want more than one satchel, (I carry six), and since they're nodrop, consider rolling up a character that you can leave in the bazaar all the time. I keep a dedicated mule there and all her inventory space is now given over to back stock of goods with a high sell through.
While you're standing there and waiting for something to sell, type /bazaar and you will get a bazaar search screen to peruse. Using the various filters, you can check other seller's pricing on items you also want to sell as well as anything you might want to buy.
One more thing, if you intend to sell containers - like hand made backpacks, they won't fit in the satchels, (can't put a container in a container), so just take the bags to the Barbarian lady standing against the wall of the large central building and hand her each bag. She will give you a token which will fit in your satchels. Then, when a player buys the token, they can redeem it for the bag. Ta Daa!
While you're standing there and waiting for something to sell, type /bazaar and you will get a bazaar search screen to peruse. Using the various filters, you can check other seller's pricing on items you also want to sell as well as anything you might want to buy.
One more thing, if you intend to sell containers - like hand made backpacks, they won't fit in the satchels, (can't put a container in a container), so just take the bags to the Barbarian lady standing against the wall of the large central building and hand her each bag. She will give you a token which will fit in your satchels. Then, when a player buys the token, they can redeem it for the bag. Ta Daa!
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Dam! I was wondering what that token thing meant. How do your redeem the token?
Edited, Mon Aug 9 16:39:24 2004 by VailenTheDruid
Edited, Mon Aug 9 16:39:24 2004 by VailenTheDruid
Just hand the token back to her and she gives you the appropriate bag.
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Does EQ allow you to have a trader logged in and a playing character; I am thinking not but thought I would asked the dumb question anyways.
Unfortunately, no. a single account can only run one character at a time, so it is either a toon standing under the awning in bazaar OR a toon out doing the hack and slash tango!
Now, if you want to run 2 accounts... that's a horse of a different colour. You could 2 box, with the character from one account open and parked in bazaar and another out generating merchandise for the first account to sell! Now, that's economy!!!
Now, if you want to run 2 accounts... that's a horse of a different colour. You could 2 box, with the character from one account open and parked in bazaar and another out generating merchandise for the first account to sell! Now, that's economy!!!
Another hint. It is very important to get a mule (dedicated trader) bound to the bazaar. The bags are very heavy and if you trip over your feet and die, you will return to your home port and not be able to move.
I keep all slots on mule full of trader bags, keep mules bank filled with trader bags in mule's bank for back up stock, and two deluxe tool boxes in joint slots, so I can stock my trader from my other toons. My mule also bazaar shops for all my alts. When I stock my mule I do not leave blank space, I just fill holes with cheaper, less profitable items.
The speed you sell something will depend on your price, but if you are in no hurry for the money you can price it a bit higher than if you are desperate for cash.
Some people put items up for higher than average prices occasionally just to see if they sell, not really caring if they do, example your toon's weapon, that you see all the time for a certain price. You may only be willing to sell if you double the price you paid. Then it's worth it and you can buy another. My mule sells his food and water at highish prices and people BUY them! I have my main toon stock his food and water. When I move I hate those out of food/drink messages, but I have made a little profit on it, which still amazes me.
I keep all slots on mule full of trader bags, keep mules bank filled with trader bags in mule's bank for back up stock, and two deluxe tool boxes in joint slots, so I can stock my trader from my other toons. My mule also bazaar shops for all my alts. When I stock my mule I do not leave blank space, I just fill holes with cheaper, less profitable items.
The speed you sell something will depend on your price, but if you are in no hurry for the money you can price it a bit higher than if you are desperate for cash.
Some people put items up for higher than average prices occasionally just to see if they sell, not really caring if they do, example your toon's weapon, that you see all the time for a certain price. You may only be willing to sell if you double the price you paid. Then it's worth it and you can buy another. My mule sells his food and water at highish prices and people BUY them! I have my main toon stock his food and water. When I move I hate those out of food/drink messages, but I have made a little profit on it, which still amazes me.
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Another hint. It is very important to get a mule (dedicated trader) bound to the bazaar. The bags are very heavy and if you trip over your feet and die, you will return to your home port and not be able to move.
If you died, wouldn't your bags stay on the corpse in the bazaar?
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If you died, wouldn't your bags stay on the corpse in the bazaar?
Only if the character is past level 10 and since most traders are lvl 1 mules with 0 exp, nope! They'd just bounce back to their bind point or their starting point in the newbie zone with all inventory in tact!
My question is where can you get a bind in bazaar?
use Find.. it will tell you if a soulbinder is present. Alternatively a number of classes can bind you (its a spell) shaman for instance.
I have to say that in years of trading - since the bazaar went live anyway - I've never had the problem of dying in there. I can understand that if it did happen it would be really hard to recover on a single account but it is pretty rare.
This doesn't mean that the advice on getting a bind isn't good advice - it is. Just that dying under your own weight is not a frequent experience.
And in case you wondered, you pass things to and from your bazaar trader via the "shared" slots in your bank. Any of your characters can put things in there and the trader can take them out and put them on sale.
And the bag-seller is called Merchant Tekrama.
I find it useful to keep an ordinary bag on my traders so that things I buy can go in it temporarily (if for some reason I don't want to put them in the shared slot - for example someone coming to collect the item). More than once in the past I have bought an item for a character and because it is on my pricelist it has gone into a trader satchel and been sold before they got there.
This doesn't mean that the advice on getting a bind isn't good advice - it is. Just that dying under your own weight is not a frequent experience.
And in case you wondered, you pass things to and from your bazaar trader via the "shared" slots in your bank. Any of your characters can put things in there and the trader can take them out and put them on sale.
And the bag-seller is called Merchant Tekrama.
I find it useful to keep an ordinary bag on my traders so that things I buy can go in it temporarily (if for some reason I don't want to put them in the shared slot - for example someone coming to collect the item). More than once in the past I have bought an item for a character and because it is on my pricelist it has gone into a trader satchel and been sold before they got there.
Wherever I go - there I am.
I have died because of glitches in other parts of the game. Let's say you jump of a couple of stairs in bazaar and you die. You shouldn't, but I died once jumping off a rock less than a foot high. Another time, I died falling "through" the world into a hole that wasn't there.
I would hate to be stuck outside of say Neriak with a level one character, weighing way too much to move and no weapon (my mule has two +25 cha steins for buying), hoping for a high level strength buff so I could slowly make my way back to the bazaar. Getting to the bank would not help because because it's full of trader bags too.
That said, my mule has never died. He is still bound in bazaar just in case.
I would hate to be stuck outside of say Neriak with a level one character, weighing way too much to move and no weapon (my mule has two +25 cha steins for buying), hoping for a high level strength buff so I could slowly make my way back to the bazaar. Getting to the bank would not help because because it's full of trader bags too.
That said, my mule has never died. He is still bound in bazaar just in case.
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This is great info everyone!! Thank you sooo much for taking the time to educate me! I greatly appreciate it. :)
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