Turn zone chat off.

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

Well, someone was looking for the level 20 alchemy water in zone chat; I had some, didn't need it, sent it to him for a price of 10g (to cover the mail cost with maybe 1 g profit) with the message "If you want it". He bought it.

I don't often look at zone chat, but I just happened to catch that request.

Then You can vote You enjoy making others happy

Going for "Other" as in I completely ignore WTB, LF messages.

I don't even read them as I have no interest in trading anything with anyone other than friends. Friends of course, I just give them stuff for free.

My thinking here is simply:

If they are looking to buy something, that to me means they don't want to take the time to go find it themselves. There is also a good chance then that they also acquired their gold from "easy" means.

Normally I give to guildies for free but in this game i charge them.

If this "someone" is a friend or a closer guild mate, I'll give it to her/him for free. Otherwise I try to trade it for something I need or sell it for a fair price. In my mind this is the appropriate etiquette in MMORPGs.

Oblongship wrote: »

This is the most worthless poll in all of the forum history...

There is some poll that is worth?

It depends on my mood and whether or not I'm logging off any time soon.

In regards to people looking to buy certain traits for crafting, I'll either go with whatever price they were buying it for, or offer it free of charge. If the latter, I may ask for a trait exchange if they have any of a certain trait. If they don't, no worries.

If the person is a friend, I'll offer it for free and it's up to them if they wish to reimburse me for the time it spent for me to obtain said item. I don't expect to be repaid, but I sure appreciate it, especially in the case of motifs.

Anything else I usually sell on a Trading Guild Store, and since my bank is chockers, the chances of having an item on hand that someone is looking for (and that I don't want to hoard), are fairly slim.

All things considered, I've been far more generous to other players in this game than I have in any of the other multiplayer games I've played. With me only needing gold to upgrade bag and bank space, feed horses and occasionally buy traited items or crafting materials, I don't feel the need to sit upon mountains of gold at any one time. Mountains of items on the other hand... what can I say? I just might need it one day!

I just vendor stuff. No point in trying to sell in 3 dead trading guilds. I am sick and tired of guild hopping trying to find one or two good ones.

I was questing and found a Nord Motif, three seconds later someone asked for it in zone. I sold it to him for 500g while others were still selling it for 800 to 1.2k ...

Money is nice, over charging isn't!

Edit: Also I'd like to take the time to tell you about something that I still think I can't pay it forward enough in mmos.

In FFXI a white mage needed a spell called Erase starting at level 32 to continue to progress their class due to the difficulty of the next areas loving to spam debuffs on groups.

The spell only dropped from a special event that took awhile to build the currency for and then it wasn't 100% drop rate, more around 10 to 20%.

I spent weeks trying to do these event runs, and failing at the drop or someone else getting it.. Not knowing, my GM was doing the runs too on his time. He was doing it for me and gave it to me for my birthday.

The erase scroll went for 20k gil to 100k gil depending on market.. He could have sold it and get a lot of gil, but he didn't.

If I have it its usually because I need it.

If I don't need it I probably don't have it as it will have been vendored or dropped into the Guild bank.

I prefer to work out a deal. They provide materials, and I will craft whatever it is they seek. In exchange, I provide materials, they make something for me at a later period of time. Works for both parties really.

Oblongship wrote: »

This is the most worthless poll in all of the forum history...

QFT