Your best bazaar deal ever?Follow

Words of awareness for 1k or primal essence for 500 plat. Hard to say which made me happier

Oh man! The best bazaar deal was when i bought a earthshaker for 75k and sold it for 400k. No lie but that was a once in a lifetime deal.

Edited, Fri May 26 10:25:18 2006 by alleryn

i found slurworms for 5 k .. and bought 5 off of the guy.. he didnt know what he had...

Picked up a barbarian illusion mask for 5K.

Also, Radiant cut boneflow pure heal effect...8K.

Definition of a good deal? Both think they are cheating the other.


- I once bought a Poison Wind Censer for 1500pp and sold it for 50 000 to guy who had bought his plat with real life money. Made me feel especially good. Aaand.. it was actually the cheapest AE weapon at hand at that time, no Earthshakers were for sale, so maybe he cheated me :)

- the deal that made me happiest ever was trading 18 Crushbone Belts at lvl 10 for a Dwarven Ringmail Tunic. Tunic is very common drop but I was thinking WOW! Real Armor with AC and all! /flex /flex! Is this guy joking or what?? (happened in Aug 2001 :))

- Good deal that I regret: Bought a Manastone for 100k and sold it for 250k (had to buy another one later for 260k :))

I rarely find anything cheap. However, I often see people buying my gear just to sell them at a higher price. I guess im loosing money.....But Im a Troll, Trolls dont have patiance ;-)

Some guy put Spell: Divine Intervention up for 100pp thinking it was junk. At the time I didn't need it, I was fairly new to the game, and I'd heard it was rare, so I put it up for 30k and it sold within five minutes. :)

I always find it interesting when there's a story behind a great buy that seems to have a ton of info about the "person they got hooked up from".

....

I don't think I've ever known anything about the seller I bought from beyond the fact that they had what I wanted. I guess I don't communicate well with others... oh wait... 99% of the time traders are AFK so it's not like I could find out info even if I wanted to....

/flame off

I did find a rather nice deal years ago when the bazaar first opened up. I bought a Cloak of flames for 10k (which I had to borrow from a good friend of mine) I felt bad about the deal and sent the guy a message and a few hours later he was flipping out sending me tells like crazy. I ended up selling it back to the guy in the end for same price I paid. That cloak was nice while it lasted and all in all my karma was still in check when all was said and done. In the end I find it hard to grab a steal of a deal knowing I just ripped someone off.

A pre-nerf Circlet of Shadow. Ordinarily it sells in the bazaar for 400,000 plat+. But for some lucky SOB it sold for 400p. I know because I sold it. 2 years and 9 million plat later, it still makes me cringe.

You know, I'm redownloading EQ now. Thanks annoying necroposter for gaining SOE another client. I wonder if I still have that circlet of shadow somewhere...

Edited, Feb 6th 2010 5:23pm by Groogle

Mask of Tinkering (gnome illusion mask) for 10k

Amulet of Necropotence (skeleton illusion clicky) for 10k

Every Saturday and Sunday morning I Get up early and go down my list (100 items) in Bazaar to search and find where the poor person who had to much to drink the night before and HAD to open their trader in that state. Or the person who is so tired that they were doing Touch-n-Go’s with their forehead on their keyboard but had to open up trader and forgot the last Zero. Or the poor noobie who doesn’t know prices and just puts anything on it to get it to show up on Trader.
Still waiting to find the person who just bought the EBay account and found a
Moss Covered Twig https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=4
Or
Mask of Tinker https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=4811
In their new found bank archives gathering dust and do not know what they have.

I even find the item that is priced way below what the NPC merchant will buy it for downstairs.
Got to love the Bazaar, one of the many mini games in EverQuest.
And with little effort some one who has little plat can leave the zone with double the amount.