How much gold do people earn in Trading Guilds on average?

Grandchamp1989

Just curious how many wares people move on average and what an average weekly income would be from it?

Saw a conversation awhile back of people saying they earned hundreds of thousands in a week... Is this an average thing?

And how do people go around doing it? Is it a matter of looking for the most meta stuff / materials - farm it like crazy and put it up for sale?

Edaphon

Depends on the guild trader's location and what you have for sale.

In bad locations you can make thousands or tens of thousands of gold each week without too much effort and you usually have to pay little no no guild fees.
In top locations the weekly fees can be several hundred thousand but if you have enough wares to sell you can make several million each week.

The most profitable items are usually furnishing recipes or crafting motifs from the most recent update. Crafting mats (especially golden upgrade mats or rare stuff like Hakeijo runes) or tradeable items from desirable sets are usually also a safe bet.

Nairinhe

I guess the range is very very wide.
I trade extremely casually (my guild has only 5k minimum) and made 50-70k a week around last free-to-play time, but then came "no trader" UI bug and sales dropped. It's usually intricates, motifs, sometimes more expensive style materials or meta/FOTM gear. Basically, I keep listed several expensive things and a lot of stuff that moves fast.

FrancisCrawford

For me it's wildly up and down, depending on whether I've noticed the market is hot in some category or whether I'm simply paying more attention or trying to force stuff out of inventory.

I get warnings from one of my guilds for not hitting the 50K weekly sales minimum. I also, according to an add-on, sold a little over 2 million through that guild over a recent 30 day period.

Shantu

500k - 2 million a week, depending on how much effort I want to put into it. Making gold in ESO is easy. You just need to figure out what players will pay for then put in the effort to acquire and list it. It may take a little time and trial-and-error, but players are buying gazillions worth of tradable good everyday. While you might RGN your way into obtaining items here and there you can sell for a decent profit, in the long run to be consistent you have have to willing to put in the time and effort.

One small hint: Level as many max crafters as you can handle, do daily crafting writs and surveys, and loot and/or decon everything. You'll be surprised at how you will acquire both the skills and materials to make all the gold you want.

Most players I find who have issues simply don't have the patience and aren't willing to put in the time.

ChimpyChumpy

With 18 toons doing writs almost every day and surveys every once in a while I can sell over 1 to 1.5 million a week in vivec pc na. Mostly gold mats and purple every once in a while. I keep flowers rather than sell them.

I keep 100 dreugh/tempers/rosin and 12 gold platings as a reserve. When I gold out a build I cool off the selling. I just golded a few sets so selling is down.

Danikat

It's extremely variable, depending on the guild and the player.

I'm in a social guild which usually has a trader but isn't exactly a trading guild, so there's no requirement to list stuff or make minimum sales or anything and even within our guild weekly sales vary. Some players make at least 1.5 million gold a week, often many times more than that. Others maybe get a few thousand each week.

I'm very much on the lower end of that because I just list whatever I happen to have and don't want, I don't farm good drops to sell. Mostly it's intricate weapons and armour (the ones which can be deconstructed for bonus crafting XP), duplicate recipies and crafting materials I have loads of. Occasionally I'll get a duplicate motif to sell, or equipment from a popular set and then I can make a bit more, but that's relatively rare.

If you're willing and able to put the time in to farm stuff to sell you can make huge amounts of gold, but it can easily end up taking up a lot of your time too, and you need to stay on top of it - logging in regularly to refill your slots as stuff is bought. I can see why some people like it, but I'd rather focus on other stuff and see any profit from the guild store as a bonus.

Linaleah

as everyone else already said - there is no set average, as it depends on multitude of factors, including location of the kiosk, pricing reputation of the guild (believe it or not, because of just sheer number of kiosks in the game, frequent shoppers not only have favorite shopping hubs, but also favorite kiosks within those hubs to shop at), and just how diligent you are at listing items as well as how in demand the items you list are.

I'm very casual about selling nowadays, so I rarely go over 200k a week, more often then not, i'm under 100k. I've also been going through a lot of my cheaper items lately, just trying to clear them out of my inventory. no high ticket items = slower gold aquisition.

however, back when I still bothered listing diligently (but still farmed semi casually and got lucky with a high ticket item), I thing my best week was about 1.3 mil in sales.

so... in a nut shell you get out of it what you put in.

wolfie1.0.

Linaleah wrote: »

as everyone else already said - there is no set average, as it depends on multitude of factors, including location of the kiosk, pricing reputation of the guild (believe it or not, because of just sheer number of kiosks in the game, frequent shoppers not only have favorite shopping hubs, but also favorite kiosks within those hubs to shop at), and just how diligent you are at listing items as well as how in demand the items you list are.

I'm very casual about selling nowadays, so I rarely go over 200k a week, more often then not, i'm under 100k. I've also been going through a lot of my cheaper items lately, just trying to clear them out of my inventory. no high ticket items = slower gold aquisition.

however, back when I still bothered listing diligently (but still farmed semi casually and got lucky with a high ticket item), I thing my best week was about 1.3 mil in sales.

so... in a nut shell you get out of it what you put in.

I would say that you get out of it what you put in that others either are unwilling or unable to put in. It really comes down to time & effort vs gold calculation.

majulook

150K per week minimum with just casual trading.

idk

Depends on how active I have been. I have made over a million in a week. I have even made hundreds of thousands at a location that a PvE guild picked up for the minimum bid because it was nowhere near being ideally located.

It heavily comes down to what you have to sell value-wise and how smart one is at pricing their wares.

robwolf666

Grandchamp1989 wrote: »

Just curious how many wares people move on average and what an average weekly income would be from it?

No idea, I don't use them, the prices are ridiculous. You already need to have a shed load of gold to buy anything from them.

Firstmep

I'm in 1 trading guild that's usually in craglorn. I aim to earn about 500k + a week, any more and I would probably have to put in effort to flip items, which I find boring.
This amount I get from doing writs on 12 toons and selling my ap, these days for for potions, unless the Golden sells something valuable.
With the ic event my sales are ofc spiking, I've sold a fair amount of hakeijos already, but I'll hoard the rest of the telvar I make, and wait until hakeijos prices go up again in a few months after the event.

ArchMikem

I once joined a Mournhold trader Guild. Sold several hundred thousand worth in just a couple days. Then left cause I ran out of things to sell.

Nairinhe

robwolf666 wrote: »

Grandchamp1989 wrote: »

Just curious how many wares people move on average and what an average weekly income would be from it?

No idea, I don't use them, the prices are ridiculous. You already need to have a shed load of gold to buy anything from them.

I've heard that looking around at least one trading spot instead of buying 10x overpriced thing from the first trader you check sometimes helps

Kingslayer513

It varies quite a lot like others said, and depends on if events are going on, new dlc released, new patches, etc. as these are always big money (like millions a week). Also sometimes you get lucky with a rare item, like the clockwork polymorph from vAS HM that sells for 3 million each. And furthermore, sometimes you get a lucky gear drop in the right traits and can sell it for over a million.

My default is about 150-300k when not going out of my way for things to sell. My primary trade guild is in Vivec, which is currently on PC NA one of the top locations (Vivec, Mournhold, Rawl'kha, Wayrest). I play a lot of endgame PVE, so there's always a steady supply of motifs to sell. Also lots of chromium platings from deconning gold jewelry.

Another large source of income is via daily crafting writs. It is a good habit to do writs on at least a handful of characters every day. The writs give you easy consistent gold (~5k per character per day) and also give gold crafting mats and surveys to get raw mats. If you do crafting writs every day on 10 characters, that's 50k a day plus tons of gold mats.

tl;dr - selling motifs and (gold) crafting materials should net you at least 150-300k a week without too much effort.

Hallothiel

Would like to do more but as always it comes down to how I decide to spend my time in game.

On console, so if want to check prices, this means going round 3-4 different main trading locations and checking the traders there - all of which takes a lot of time.

Do belong to trading guild, and two social guilds that have trader, but trying to work out what is actually selling is again hard work & exceptionally random - looking through the history doesn’t show trends.

Make enough to cover dues & keep me in lux furniture. End up having one evening every couple of months when i go through inventories & work out what to sell - but as mentioned above, its a dull tedious process.

WastedJoker

This is my 30 day average. Only one of the guilds is in a prime spot and one of them never has a guild store it seems.

rumple9

There's a difference between revenue and profit .....

WastedJoker

rumple9 wrote: »

There's a difference between revenue and profit .....

I don't craft.

ChimpyChumpy

rumple9 wrote: »

There's a difference between revenue and profit .....

True but folks who get mats from writs on multiple toons and surveys are at 100% minus taxes.

coletas

200-400k average. Some lucky weeks like 1.5M+
All earned in PvP stuff (golden vendors + cyro vendors + IC stuff) and playing no more than 5h week (just playing, no farming anything)

Linaleah

rumple9 wrote: »

There's a difference between revenue and profit .....

I mean you COULD calculate the costs of farming for things to sell, you know times spent vs gold made. but for me at least, I don't farm to sell, I play and sell of whatever excess I end up with from doing whatever I felt like doing anyways. so for me its all profit. and like another replier, I personaly don't craft to sell, because when I calculated costs of that (assuming sales value of mats used) I realized that I would just rather sell raw mats. less headache that way.

VoxAdActa

I have one character I play right now. Just one person harvesting, crafting, etc.

I haven't been doing a lot of harvesting these last two weeks. I spent 0 hours harvesting last week, and about 4 hours harvesting this week. I've been working on RL stuff, and haven't had time/energy to play.

Just from logging in once a day and scraping stuff off the bottom of my craft bag to keep my guild store slots full (PC/NA, trader in Alinor, dues: 1k/wk), I made ~150k last week and closer to ~300k this week so far (the difference 4 hours of harvesting makes).

It's not hard. I don't know for sure, since I was gone for a while, but I never heard of Alinor being called a "top spot" on the same level as Mournhold or Elden Root. I can't imagine what it would take to keep a Belkarth trader full; I sell 14-25 of my slots every 24 hours. If something sits for more than 2-3 days I start to wonder if I priced it too high.

And again, last week particularly was just the resin from the inside walls of my depleted craft bag. I was down to selling 100x rice and 50x Makoma runes just to fill a slot.

SickleCider

I average 1mil a week. I'm in two trading guilds, one fairly large, the other smaller. High price items go in the big one, other things go in the smaller one. I've found items that are easy for me to acquire, and they sell well, so I keep a fairly consistent inventory.

Sarannah

Shantu wrote: »

One small hint: Level as many max crafters as you can handle, do daily crafting writs and surveys, and loot and/or decon everything. You'll be surprised at how you will acquire both the skills and materials to make all the gold you want..

Side-question: Do you mean max level crafters as in just level 50 craftingskills with 0 skillpoints in the craftings, or max level as in fully skillpoint leveled craftingskills? ... As I have a few max skill level crafters, and I burn through the highest tier materials really really fast, especially jewelry crafting's platinum. And this is just with 4 fully skill-leveled crafters.

VaranisArano

It depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put in gathering items people want to buy.

I like farming, so my sales per week varies dramatically based on how much time I spend farming raw materials and nirncrux to sell. At most, I sell around 1 million a week. On weeks when I spend less time, I make less gold.

Reverb

I average 1.6m a week between two guilds, without putting a huge amount of effort or time into it. My top guild has several people who hit over 10m every week, I don’t know how hard they work at that. In my smaller guild with no minimums the top 10 sellers have 200-500k each week.

Top sellers are always high end upgrade mats, desirable alchemy mats, the most recently released motif pages and furnishing plans, and getting early returns on event items before the market gets saturated.

Beardimus

Totally depends how hard you want to go..

Last few months I've only been selling stuff from ROTW (PvP sets) and I'll make 100k a week no real stress, that's the least effort I've ever out into trading.

However I also spend very little. That that's what folks don't get, traders aren't fat cats sat on a monopoly they are also shrewd and crafter's etc.

I only buy set items or if I can't be bothered to farm mats etc. I'm sat on several hundred surveys and can't be bothered to harvest them so I buy herbs etc Instead when I see a deal in text chat

Reverb

Nairinhe wrote: »

I guess the range is very very wide.
I trade extremely casually (my guild has only 5k minimum) and made 50-70k a week around last free-to-play time, but then came "no trader" UI bug and sales dropped. It's usually intricates, motifs, sometimes more expensive style materials or meta/FOTM gear. Basically, I keep listed several expensive things and a lot of stuff that moves fast.

Have they even acknowledged this bug yet? It’s been a couple of weeks now.

Bucky_13

I sell for 1m+ split between 2 trade guilds each week, sometimes I get higher than that. I do daily writs on 12 characters, so a lot of income is from mats, not to mention the gold rewards I get from doing the writs. I also sell other random things that I pick up with a value to other players that I don't need.