Selling your crafted gear

Daryn

Having collected various motifs, invested time into levelling smithing skill to 50, how does one identify to the masses (via Guild store/trader) the style of the gear Ive created and offer for sale. How does a prospective buyer identify my gear as Deaderic, Primal of Barbaric? This would seem to inhibit a crafters ability to earn form the skill.

FattedCactus501

Nestor

We can't identify the Racial Style on the PC without an addon or deconstructing the thing or equipping it.

Making things for Spec is not really viable as most people who do buy crafted armor either buy items to research or put in special orders for things they want. Maybe the console market is different in this regard, but the lack of Zone Chat is going to be your biggest hurdle. It would be nice to even have a Chat Bubble to use for this. However even with Zone Chat, or Guild Chat, I get little to no response when I send out a message, "Anyone need anything crafted?" Basically, because if your not asking at the exact time someone needs something, your not going to find customers.

I guess you could walk by people who are shopping at Guild Kiosks and keep saying "I am a crafter, what would you like me to make" until someone responds. But I don't know how effective that would be either.

Nestor

Daryn wrote: »

a crafters ability to earn form the skill.

FattedCactus501

One more thing, with regards to equipment crafting. It is not so much the money you make from making things, it is the money you save from not having to buy things that is the reason for crafting. That along with Special Crafted Sets which offer great bonuses on gear that you can't really get anywhere else. At least until you start doing end game content and get those drops.

adino

I have a solution for this...

PLAYER CRAFTING WRITS!

Create a board where you can put in an order. Then players can pick up the order and craft it. Fulfill it and then get a reward. Maybe to put a writ up you have to put in money and that is your reward. This will prevent abuse. Abuse mitigation will be key here. But if you limit it to one writ per craft per day like it is now it might make abuse negligible.

Maybe this can be a guild vendor function as well.

SugaComa

adino wrote: »

I have a solution for this...

PLAYER CRAFTING WRITS!

Create a board where you can put in an order. Then players can pick up the order and craft it. Fulfill it and then get a reward. Maybe to put a writ up you have to put in money and that is your reward. This will prevent abuse. Abuse mitigation will be key here. But if you limit it to one writ per craft per day like it is now it might make abuse negligible.

Maybe this can be a guild vendor function as well.

Not really what you were thinking but ...

http://esotradingpost.uk

Bink2112

I have some insight to offer on this subject if you'd care to oblige...

To be as concise as possible; craft entire sets that seem to be for a specif class/build (ie. two daggers and 3 pieces of med armor in the Vampires Kiss set for a Nightblade) and sell those sets for a fair market price, (for your business to work...roughly, or carefully, determine the cost of your materials and add enough to pay you for your time and energy researching and crafting) while maintaining a reasonable profit margin of course.

I know this means crafting a set of gear and upgrading and even enchanting it (if you want to go that far) without having it already sold, at first anyways...but it will be worth it in the long run. Let me tell you why it is worth it. Not only will you have a nice green and maybe blue set of gear to advertise in zone (obviously choose which zones you advertise which level sets of gear you are crafting) but you will quickly build (if your customer service is good) a clientele that will keep you busy every few levels.

I have just now leveled my first toon to 50 and spent 50% of my playtime crafting and selling sets of gear to new or lower level player to the tune of about 50k total profit. Again I have hardly touched V1 or above crafting sets to sell, this is mainly from selling a lvl 12-40 set of armor to folks for anywhere (depending on how much of the set I upgraded and to which tier) between 1k gold to 5k gold. I typically profit about 20 to 30 percent. Ex. a green set of 5 pieces that costs 600g for materials (fair market value; as I farm some and buy some in bulk) that I would sell for 1k gold, give or take. You can of course alter your margins in any way you see fit, but I have experienced that giving people a fair price turns quickly into lots of return customers and even very nice tips!

One last not, to organize and be professional I have a crafting guild I made and keep inventory in that bank. I send COD requests to buyers with a kind of purchase order/receipt for what they purchased with a guild seal/signature and a guarantee (you could litterally crap in a box and mark it guaranteed) on it. I include in the message a note that I will be adding them as a friend for future business; they almost always accept, then I add a quick note next to their name in my friends list that says "customer" and what they recently purchased from me.

I hope any of this rambling helps...I'm aware that was not very concise as I had previously mentioned and hoped!

@Bink2112 - PC

leepalmer95

I'd try find a end game pve guild with crafters, the one i joined has a list of all maxed crafters on the guild homepage thing, if someone needs a crafter they message the person to ask exactly what they can offer. Earned 50k just today doing this.

chaotic4me2

http://esotrade.proboards.com/board/7/na


best site i have found or

https://www.esomerchant.com