How to be an Idiot in ESO: Part 2

arena25

Today, I was fishing in Stonefalls with my main, Bee'lest, trying to get the rare fish before I had to call it quits for the night (I have a 5am start to my shift at work tomorrow).

So, I was going to sell the fish, but then decided "Eh, why not filet them?"

Got a Perfect Roe. Of course, I don't need Perfect Roe, so i decided to sell to other players.

Problem? I don't know the sell price. So I said in Stonefalls zone chat "WTS Perfect Roe x1, 1k gold, pst."

10 seconds later, my chatbox exploded with replies. One said, "You must be very new or very stupid." Another said, "1k? Please tell me you are trying to rob yourself." And the last one said, "WTS Noob Merchant, $5.99, pst."

Well, when someone said, "Bruh, sell it for more, it's worth 10K according to mm", I quickly changed the price to 7K.

Story over. Discuss.

Tryxus

I'd say you're a good fisherman, cuz you baited them gud

Jitterbug

Install MM?

AlienatedGoat

Jitterbug wrote: »

Install MM?

Master Merchant won't help you if you're not in trading guilds. Better to use TTC if you're a lone wolf, at least then you get a suggested price range.

Jitterbug

Phage wrote: »

Jitterbug wrote: »

Install MM?

Master Merchant won't help you if you're not in trading guilds. Better to use TTC if you're a lone wolf, at least then you get a suggested price range.

Being in a small time trade guild to feed MM is free though.

disintegr8

Just go to a few guild traders and check out the price they are selling an item for. Also check the days remaining - the longer it has been unsold, the more likely it is overpriced.

I started selling perfect roe last week at 14k (PS4 NA) when I saw traders stocking it at about 15k average. It gets snapped up pretty quickly and I have more than enough to keep them rolling over.

Betsararie

The only discussion here is you should've verified the price it goes for instead of offering a high value item at a random price

stewhead2ub17_ESO

@arena25 I'm going to disagree with most the people here. If you weren't concerned about the $$ sell it for whatever you want. I sell plenty of things based on my feeling at the moment and the prospective buyers attitude. I also enjoy RP'ing my sales pitches and convos with buyers. It's your damn roe so you can sell it for whatever you wish!
And I'm so spiteful the minute some jack wagon said I must be stupid, I would have cut the price in half!
An item's value is worth whatever someone will pay for it. I laugh at all the internet sales gurus that always knock someone when they advertise a sale in chat, because no matter what, some blowhard always comments how it's overpriced.

Immortal_Dark410

arena25 wrote: »

Today, I was fishing in Stonefalls with my main, Bee'lest, trying to get the rare fish before I had to call it quits for the night (I have a 5am start to my shift at work tomorrow).

So, I was going to sell the fish, but then decided "Eh, why not filet them?"

Got a Perfect Roe. Of course, I don't need Perfect Roe, so i decided to sell to other players.

Problem? I don't know the sell price. So I said in Stonefalls zone chat "WTS Perfect Roe x1, 1k gold, pst."

10 seconds later, my chatbox exploded with replies. One said, "You must be very new or very stupid." Another said, "1k? Please tell me you are trying to rob yourself." And the last one said, "WTS Noob Merchant, $5.99, pst."

Well, when someone said, "Bruh, sell it for more, it's worth 10K according to mm", I quickly changed the price to 7K.

Story over. Discuss.

lol nice, i loved the read & enjoyed the post, But im still thinking We should add a "Master Bait-er" Achievement, For someone who farms Bait alot, as for the price ya generally ppl dont know prices & Some ppl rip off new ppl like that in Zone alot.

SirMontyII

Everyone - please ask for a price check (PC) when selling large ticket items - some people get uppity if you low ball the price. We who use MM or TTC are happy to help.

smacx250

I guess you found out you were selling it for a lot less than it was worth, and everyone told you so instead of quickly offering you 1.1K and buying it?

smacx250

SirMontyII wrote: »

Everyone - please ask for a price check (PC) when selling large ticket items - some people get uppity if you low ball the price. We who use MM or TTC are happy to help.

^ People I like to upset! (and yes, I use MM)

Shimmer

So I spent months getting master fisher. After I got the achievement, I was selling stuff to the vendor to clean out my bags and said on VOIP "I really wish these wet gunny sacks sold for more because ive gotten literally hundreds while fishing this achievement" To which my sister responded "uh....you've been opening those right?..."

...thats right, i went through the whole achievement without opening a single wet gunny sack...........
They have never let me live it down.

pretty sure I have you beat

phairdon

Easy way to get a handle on pricing, is to link the item in chat and ask for a price check.

kargen27

I loaned a guild mate 1100 Ancestor Silk and can't remember who I loaned it to. Been long enough now I suspect I will not be getting it back.

Before I joined a guild I would offer things for sale in zone chat and if someone was interested in it I would just send it to them and tell them to pay me what they wanted. Only got burned once.

Smasherx74

Perfect roe has always been 10k

max_only

It's a gold quality item... what other gold quality items are that cheap? Maybe a runebox from a holiday event? I really can't think of one.

disintegr8

I had a stash of Witchmother's Potent Brew Recipes from last years Witches festival and found out a couple of weeks ago that they sold for 50k+ each. Now I am richer by several hundred thousand gold.

Hearsay_

More fool them. I would have snatched that roe up quick smart for 1k.

Appleblade

So they made you charge more instead of paying the bargain price.

Yeah, they're right brilliant.

Feanor

You could have sent them raw Ebonthread for 1k by mistake

SydneyGrey

Feanor wrote: »

You could have sent them raw Ebonthread for 1k by mistake

That's something only scumbags do, so no, he did NOT want to do that.

Betsararie

I agree with some of the above posters.

The people messaging you had the chance of a lifetime to get a perfect for 1/10 of the going price, and they actively tried to eliminate the chances of that happening instead of taking advantage of the opportunity when it presented itself. I can't say that comes off as intelligent behavior.

The_Red_Viper

Well they where right and you probably deserved getting robbed for being too lazy to google the price for it.

Yarlenzey

If you're happy with selling for 7k or 1K - who cares, but you?
How much did you pay for it again?

But please sell through a guild, so that your deflated price affects the ongoing average price.

Yarlenzey

The_Red_Viper wrote: »

Well they where right and you probably deserved getting robbed for being too lazy to google the price for it.

there you go; turning brand-names into verbs again.

SirMontyII wrote: »

Everyone - please ask for a price check (PC) when selling large ticket items - some people get uppity if you low ball the price. We who use MM or TTC are happy to help.

Sure. Like after 3 years, it's really difficult for MM to locate pricing on some 'rarer' items. It's quite amazing to watch the variation in responses from all those that are 'happy to help'.

"uppity" if you low ball the price? What? As in they don't like it when you inadvertently lower the sales figure?

What selling something listed for 110,000, but for 60,000 instead?

I did that. It didn't sell for 110K; it sold for 60K. What part of economic reality isn't clear there?
So now any future sale suggests 85,000. This is of course, closer to the real value of 60,000.

Aurie

Blanco wrote: »

I agree with some of the above posters.

The people messaging you had the chance of a lifetime to get a perfect for 1/10 of the going price, and they actively tried to eliminate the chances of that happening instead of taking advantage of the opportunity when it presented itself. I can't say that comes off as intelligent behavior.

It comes off as honest behaviour though. Refreshing for a change.

stewhead2ub17_ESO

SirMontyII wrote: »

Everyone - please ask for a price check (PC) when selling large ticket items - some people get uppity if you low ball the price. We who use MM or TTC are happy to help.

Who are you? The Iron Bank? No offense, Sir, but an item that is mine I will sell for whatever I decide.

DeadlyRecluse

1k for roe is really low, but I underprice items all the time. I'd rather just move all my drops stress free rather than nitpick pricing to get an extra 10 percent out of everything.

Immortal_Dark410

stewhead2ub17_ESO wrote: »

SirMontyII wrote: »

Everyone - please ask for a price check (PC) when selling large ticket items - some people get uppity if you low ball the price. We who use MM or TTC are happy to help.

Who are you? The Iron Bank? No offense, Sir, but an item that is mine I will sell for whatever I decide.

I dont think he / she meant to say sell at TTC or MM Price, I believe they were meaning to say "To get an idea of a average value of the item. Idealogy of "i'll sell my item what price i want is great" but thats how new players get Ripped off by other players who know prices.

Darlgon

arena25 wrote: »

Story over. Discuss.

I am kinda curious why you felt the need to share....