How do trading guilds work and bidding and stuff?

bruceleroy98 · June 2015

My guild is close to 50 members. I haven't the furthest clue on how to make a guild store or a trading guild work lucratively? Any accurate tips and pointers offered?

Bruceleroy98

Bfish22090 · June 2015

The guild generates money from taxes on items sold.

You can bid on 1 trader a week and the highest bid wins

I would make sure to have spies in your competitors guilds to see how much they bid, then you can bid higher

bruceleroy98 · June 2015

Word? ^^^ I love it. When you say 1 trader a week, do you mean on trader location per week? I'm new so please explain.

bruceleroy98 · June 2015

And what items gain the most profit and most often?

Zorrashi · June 2015

Whatever you do, do not even try to land a kiosk in cities like Rawl'kha and Mournhold. Bids are so high in those places that newer guilds essentially don't have a chance, but that's to be expected for prime locations.

For a new guild, try the occasional non-city kiosk on a side road or maybe one of the mildly active trader's refuge. Most of those have low bids and despite the lower traffic, any kiosk is usually better than no kiosk (provided, of course, that you make your bidding money back from store profits).

Bfish22090 wrote: »

[...]I would make sure to have spies in your competitors guilds to see how much they bid, then you can bid higher

and please don't use that tactic. Not only is it unethical (which may or may not concern you) but you open yourself up to loads upon loads of stress if you pursue it. If any player who does not condone spying (who may be in your own guild or a competitors) is aware that you use that shady practice, you may well find yourself getting called out if not downright harassed. In certain cases, GMs will get called in if the case is deemed too severe.

Enemy-of-Coldharbour · June 2015

bruceleroy98 wrote: »

And what items gain the most profit and most often?

Motifs
Crafting Mats
Armor Set Pieces
High Level Glyphs

However, the market seems to fluctuate weekly depending on the FOTM.

Zorrashi · June 2015

Enemy-of-Coldharbour wrote: »

bruceleroy98 wrote: »

And what items gain the most profit and most often?

Motifs

Crafting Mats

Armor Set Pieces

High Level Glyphs

However, the market seems to fluctuate weekly depending on the FOTM.

Don't' forget tri-pots, invisibility potions and detection potions. And maybe perfect roe given the recent XP-potion additions (psijic ambrosia, was it?). A few research items may also gain a bit of gold too.

Bfish22090 · June 2015

Zorrashi wrote: »

Whatever you do, do not even try to land a kiosk in cities like Rawl'kha and Mournhold. Bids are so high in those places that newer guilds essentially don't have a chance, but that's to be expected for prime locations.

For a new guild, try the occasional non-city kiosk on a side road or maybe one of the mildly active trader's refuge. Most of those have low bids and despite the lower traffic, any kiosk is usually better than no kiosk (provided, of course, that you make your bidding money back from store profits).

Bfish22090 wrote: »

[...]I would make sure to have spies in your competitors guilds to see how much they bid, then you can bid higher

and please don't use that tactic. Not only is it unethical (which may or may not concern you) but you open yourself up to loads upon loads of stress if you pursue it. If any player who does not condone spying (who may be in your own guild or a competitors) is aware that you use that shady practice, you may well find yourself getting called out if not downright harassed. In certain cases, GMs will get called in if the case is deemed too severe.

Survival of the fittest

gwillard_ESO · June 2015

Selling Raw mats is lucrative.