RSTAR7824 wrote: »

I recently managed to get in a really good selling guild but I'm not really sure what I should be selling.

Tempers
Raw Materials
Refined Materials
Nirn Stones
Flowers for Alchemy
Treasure Maps
Traited items for research purposes
Intricate Items for deconning
Dropped Set items
Improved items so people can extract a temper (sell for just less than Temper Price)
Enchanting Potencies (and Aspects)
Tri-Pots
Provisioning Ingredients
VR15 Purple Foods/Drinks
Filled Soul Gems
Blue and Purple Recipes
Green Recipes used for Writs
Motifs
Glyphs (VR15/16 Purple and Gold Attribute for most purposes)

Those are what move for me with regularity. I price below market prices as I am more interested in Gold per hour, not max gold per item.

However you can make 5K to 10K a day from Stealing and Fencing. Also, steal provisioning ingredients, and make foods and drinks and sell those to game merchants. I can clear 30K to 40K a week converting all my excess provisioning ingredients to foods/drinks and selling to game merchants (not the kiosks, no player will buy this stuff unless it is Writ related) Just make the highest level green recipe stuff you can make. Blues sell to vendors for the same as Greens and Purples only sell for one gold more.

The prices vary wildly between console and PC. Columbine, for example is generally 1000 or more on XBox. Regardless here is what you need to do to make an honest living on the trade market.

1) Sell items that make other items. Say it costs you 100K to make a VR16 item. Chances are you will never see a profit from selling that item on the AU. Instead, sell the parts to make the item. Grab 10k for the Temper, another 50k from the mats, another 10k from the kuta, etc. Mats > Final product 99.9999% of the time.

2) Sell products people will always need. I made my ESO living for a long time off of filled grand soul gems. They cost 121 each so a group of 5 costs me 605. I've resold them anywhere from 850 to 1450 for 5. My price has settled at 950. If you have the soul magic skill that lets you capture multiple souls you can fill up 200 in any VR area in 30 minutes or less. The margin isn't huge but it's consistant profit since PVPers will always need them.

3) Don't bother selling things for ridiculous prices. Before you post something check each of your 5 guild stores. Find out how much that product is going for. If none exist, only then put it up for something absurd. I make like 50k one day from a single perfect roe the day it came out. Of course it lead me to getting kicked out for undercutting but whatever.

4) Always undercut. If you really want to sell something list it for 10 to 20% lower than everyone else. Someone will buy it within a day and resell it at the normal price.

Summary: Sell products people want (no one wants a VR11 blue helm), or people need (VR16 materials, soul gems etc). Sell at affordable and researched prices.

Nestor wrote: »

danielpatrickkeaneub17_ESO wrote: »

4) Always undercut. If you really want to sell something list it for 10 to 20% lower than everyone else. Someone will buy it within a day and resell it at the normal price.

Yes, if you want to move something, sell it for less. But, do at least what is mentioned above. Don't be a tool and sell something for 499 against another listing for 500 gold. That is not cricket. Sell at a discount if your going to discount. Remember, an unsold item nets you 0 gold, a sold item is pretty much pure profit if you compare it to NPC Vendor pricing when you sell to them.

Good point. Yes, reminds me of the time I saw someone bid $1 on Price-Is-Right first. Winning bid ... $4.