Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Updates and things... ... ...

Well, I am amazed at how much gold I can spend...  Over 300K in a week..  though the idea is to make more.. and sometimes I worry about how that is going... Essences are on the fall, and though I have kept buying and stockpilining at higher prices, they keep falling to lower prices..   This means that many prices in ZA (ZeroAuctions) are not good, and could be losing me a few sales, AND... infinite dust, I have about 3000 that I piled up at prices about 6G/ea and prices are often 4G and lower now....  then the guessing game of what will Shards do.. I keep buying blues and DEing them to keep in business and have not managed to stockpile any amount of them...  not sure where prices will settle out too, and not sure that they ever will...  prices vary from 40-80G/ea...

All of that means I am swimming in PILES of overpriced mats and thier value keeps falling... the good news is that I do keep selling at a profit...

There are a couple dozen arguments I could make why ZA is a fire and forget, disconnected and unemotional machine....  just checks and balances on it and leave it go.. cancel post... when prices are bad... oh well, when prices are good... well, they are good.. diversify into many areas and as many as you can.. few others will be able to undercut you on wholesale of everything you sell if you get over 100 individual items or more you are selling...  100 is an arbitrary guess and there is no science in that number...  100+ is good, 200 plus individual items is a great start on a "diversified" portfolio of goods...  Still just "gut feel" numbers, but a good ballpark all the same, few players will be in that many markets... just let the stuf go on the 20-50 auctions that DKTARDOHHH has listed and is undercutting you on... If you have your numbers set good... well either they are making liittle or no porfits...  and little is worse than no profits IMO... its all about gold per hour... make a scroll that will sell for 50G profit, or fight in a market for one that will sell 5 times over for 5G/ea profit...... Hmmm, time valuation says I should list 5 different auctions that will sell for 50G/ea profits...  that would be 250G net income... NOT... I SAY NOT fuss over 5 items that sell 5 times over for 5G/ea.. that is only 125G profit.... hmmmm.. stress, heartache, fighting w/ pixels, and much angst... for 125G.. or fire and forget the ZA way for 250.. or better yet.. both... I am all about the disconnected, unemotional ZA way...

So, this blog was really started about the GUILD.. COMMITMENT... yeah, its slow going and slow growing... BUT.. our first real major milestone is just before the second....  We have our first level 85... Grats to that guy...  They are a guild first...  and we are well on our way to level 2 now... 77% of the way to level 2, and there is one more serious mover and player on the way up...

THAT MAY NOT SEEM like a lot, but for a bunch of players that have been level 15 and under from the start of the guild... its a lot...  It will be fun to see what happens with "commitment"

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