Auction tips?

[Derpus]

i didnt mean to imply that all people "taking offers" are shady. in my experience its just not worth the time investment.

edit- here's a tip on an item niche that seems to go chronically unfilled, mid level 2hs. tons of sub 100p ones, tons of 1k+
the 2 items im thinking of are the blackend iron bastard sword and the gigantic zweihander, just dont see to many of them out there, and when i do they get snapped up pretty fast

[Noleafclover]

Beware the reseller. If you see someone on a lv. 1 alt buying and selling, they will be unlikely to give you the good end of the stick whether you're buying from them or selling to them.

Good ways to tell this are - if they are "anon" without a guild tag (almost everyone uses roleplay in guilds), if you wander over to t1 and see them naked and green con, and if they are selling many many items (fallible, if they're selling many items from the same zone they could just have come from camping there). If you have a sense of prices at all, you'll be able to tell them by the fact they WTB everything under, WTS everything over.

So, generally, do a /who of the person you're dealing with. If it's someone in one of the major guilds and anon, they're likely to take any non-ripoff deal - and also likely to have been around and tell you to shove it if you try to rip them off. I also do a /who, and if I see someone 10-30, I'm more likely to say "I'll take it" or "I'll take it, and pay you more for the convenience and 'cause you need it;" so if you're a lowbie leveling up, stay unanon.

[tinidas]

Thanks for all the advice. I actually am doing the resell thing but don't think I'm doing it the bad way Noleafclover describes. Much of my wares are vendor bought (words, griffon wings, minor items) that go for more then the vendor sells but I also will purchase bargains that are offered and resell at a fair price or discount. example someone was selling serpentine bracer for 50p when others auctioned around 100 (even 1 guy asking 250 heh) which I bought and then sold for 75p. I assume original seller was happy with 50, I was happy with 25 profit and last buyer was happy too. I'd guess some folks like to sell below market so they can get back to fighting. I do like to buy under of course but sell fair rather than over.

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