| Originally Posted by Skoal |
| If people don't care about the gil then why don't they just npc it? If you want to move product fast, I can't think of a faster way than an instant sell tnpc. |
From most of my mules it takes about as long to run to the AH as it does to run to the NPC. I can list things for 101 gil and get full price. I don't usually sell singles of things but I'm sure if I listed a single silk thread for 101 gil I'd got 1-3k for it. That's still 900 more than what the NPC would pay me for it. Maybe I didn't make and extra 1-2k but for the gamble of putting it up at only 101 I did get more than I would've at an NPC for the same amount of effort.
It's the same with many other items that I might list for 1001 gil or 5001 gil. I don't look them up... I just guess. Sometimes items sell for 50k over what I listed them for because I was unaware of their market (though I do pay attention). Just by guesstimating the worth I can turn a very small amount of items that may be worth 4k at an NPC into 100k+ at the AH and only list them for around 25k total.
If I get screwed and someone does pay 101 gil... meh. I didn't lose that much. That kinda thing happens at best 1/10 times but more like 1/100. This keeps a perfect balance between:
a) moving things through the AH fast
b) spending very little time looking up the going rate
c) making a good profit for very little trouble