Bonechips: Nobody seems to buy them anymore

[A1rh3ad]

I remember when I first started on p99 one of the first items I sold at EC was stacks of bone chips. It was the go to thing to sell on a new character. Lately I've made a few alts and saved them up to make some starter cash but countless attempts have proven fruitless. I see people offering them at the tunnel but I can't seem to sell them anymore. It's ok though because honestly an easily obtainable item like chips selling for 5-10p per stack always seemed kind of weird to me. Any thoughts on this?

[madgarin]

Seems like tons of people been selling em lately so it's market saturation. As far as the price of them, I don't mind paying 10pp a stack, saves me time and hopefully helps a newer character out a bit. I guess it's all about finding a niche.

[Swish2]

Better to try and sell them in EC if anywhere. Greater Faydark definitely has more sellers than buyers (sadly).

[Tethler]

I noticed the same with other newbie farmed items. I leveled a necro in commonlands recently. While I kept all my bonechips, my attempts to sell several stacks of spiderling and spider silks never got a buyer. The only thing that sold was HQ bear pelts, and those were always snatched right up at 30p.

[A1rh3ad]

I noticed the same with other newbie farmed items. I leveled a necro in commonlands recently. While I kept all my bonechips, my attempts to sell several stacks of spiderling and spider silks never got a buyer. The only thing that sold was HQ bear pelts, and those were always snatched right up at 30p.

Yeah, there always seems to be a demand for pelts. I'm guessing weight reduction bags. I think the most money I've made is waiting for hhk basement and farming ears but that doesn't come until much later. I haven't farmed silk in a while. Sometimes it was hard to do in karana because there is always a bard kiting the spiders. I've made a few iksar so I'm interested to see how well theirs sells from FoB. Spiderling silk gets grabbed up really fast from what I remember so when I make my darkelf rogue maybe I'll make a few starter plat with her.

[elwing]

Bone chips is a niche item. We sk and necro needs some for our spells, but we don't need that much at once... Besides us bone chips have 2 other uses... Quickly leveling newbies and raising factions, these are the two uses where multiple stacks are needed at once... Find someone doing either and you can unload all your bone chips at once... That or sell one or two stack at once for sk/nec... For reference, to fix all faction in cabilis, I had to turn in around 80 backpacks of bone chips... If you would have been around fob/kurns when I was doing that you would have had no issue to sell me any amount of bone chips...

[Tethler]

Bone chips is a niche item. We sk and necro needs some for our spells, but we don't need that much at once... Besides us bone chips have 2 other uses... Quickly leveling newbies and raising factions, these are the two uses where multiple stacks are needed at once... Find someone doing either and you can unload all your bone chips at once... That or sell one or two stack at once for sk/nec... For reference, to fix all faction in cabilis, I had to turn in around 80 backpacks of bone chips... If you would have been around fob/kurns when I was doing that you would have had no issue to sell me any amount of bone chips...

Yeah, I did that with my dorf cleric a while back. Got him from 1-15ish with 5 bags of bone chips or something. I forget exactly how much. It's been a while.

[elwing]

There's also no bone chips on velious, you can certainly sell stack for way more than the usual 10...but not really an option for low level looking for money...

[radda]

I remember when I first started on p99

Oh, wow, this guy is still around?

[MilanderTruewield]

I try to keep 8 stacks on my 60 necro :o

[Frug]

Yeah, with the number of people going through Kurn at 12-24 with easy porting options there now, the bone chip market is oversaturated.

[Gumbo]

I started a Cleric in ButcherBlock and from levels 15-20. I spent all the time at the chessboard and those Undead are dropping bone chips like slot machines...

[aaezil]

Necros cant afford bone chips anymore now that CoS is 250k

Sad life

[madgarin]

Aye I can confirm that necros now have to farm their own bone chips due to ever increasing cos costs. Damn those millennial necros killing the bone chip industry.

[Tethler]

A lot of Necros go Iksar, which means they spend their time in Field of Bone and Kurns Tower.

I have a level 50 Necro who still has 4 or 5 bags full of bone chips.

You'd think Necros burn through chips, but they really don't.

I think I'm doing it wrong. I chain resummon till I get max level pet every time. Had bad luck the other day and ate a stack and a half to get even level pet at level 16 lol. Then it died 5 minutes later when 2 patrols wandered into me. Sad times.

[Swish2]

Necros cant afford bone chips anymore now that CoS is 250k

Sad life

250k? I thought it was still going up.

[GRMurphy]

I've noticed this myself. I have been trying to sell a horde of bone chips stacks that I've accumulated in EC, but even after lowering the price considerably, I'm not getting any buyers. Low level areas haven't been much better for me.

At this point I'm considering just getting a friend to help me hand them off to an alt of mine so they can use them in Kaladim.

[clevergirl]

It was probably mentioned already in the thread, but there are some quests that give decent rewards/coin for bone chips, not as good as 1pp per stack, but some alright options in case you just need that next lvl 9 spell or 10 more plat towards a magic weapon fund for level 14.

[Gozuk]

WTB bonechips. Seriously

[Frug]

I think I'm doing it wrong. I chain resummon till I get max level pet every time. Had bad luck the other day and ate a stack and a half to get even level pet at level 16 lol. Then it died 5 minutes later when 2 patrols wandered into me. Sad times.

If you're fear kiting, and not OCD, "best pet" at that level doesn't make much difference.

[Mudson]

Shiny Brass Idols helps the new player to make some moula! Almost an instant seller for 600-700pp