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Originally Posted by awimer01
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I don't know if any of you do this or have done this or even knew this happened. It happened to me today, an I'll be honest, I was pleasantly surprised. I sold someone a Ikky B Club, and part of the deal was helping my buyer find another item. Didn't see any harm in it, so about 30 minutes later I saw one flash in EC, I contacted both the seller and the buyer, arranged a meet, and in a flash I had helped 2 people get what they wanted. The buyer tipped me 100pp!
I was floored. I hadn't really thought about that being a relatively low risk yet somewhat lucrative thing. Granted it was a simple donation (a most appreciated one!) but I was just wondering if this kinda thing happens a lot?
Akkarin
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This is essentially what all the mules/vendors in EC are doing. They buy many items at low-ball prices then spend time in EC selling those items at higher prices - essentially acting as the middle man for buyers and sellers. The "tip" is more of a "fee" and it's the difference between the cost of buying and price of selling. The plat made per hour is this case is the total platinum earned from sales minus the total platinum earned from purchase of stock divided by the number of hours of playing in that session. In this case, just like in real life, being connected with the right players to provide you with cheap goods to resell is key to success when playing the P1999 market.
The hardcores also do stock-like analysis of the prices of goods, forecast change in price based on known upcoming changed/nerfs to items, generate supply/demand curves, collude with other major hardcores to price fix, etc.