It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a certain three letters are what get most of these so-called "Pro EC traders" who pop out of nowhere started. It's easy to scalp a 5-10k profit on a Fungi or 20k on a CoF. Any idiot can do that: you just sit in the tunnel until you find a lazy, rich and desperate buyer. You aren't going to get rich with a month of tunneling starting with a low bankroll, though. Selling a few pairs of platinum fire wedding rings for 700 instead of 500 isn't going to make you an overnight millionaire. An SSB for 1.5k instead of 1k is a good start, but again, this is not big money.
It's ridiculously easy to make money in EC if you already have a huge bankroll, because you can afford 50k+ items then just charge an extra 5-10k on each. That strategy doesn't work with cheaper items, though, both for the fact that the absolute plat value is much lower, and the fact that there is much more selling competition and downward pressure on low & mid-range gear.
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