How do you make money on the market boards?

sell late range levelling gear. So from about the x6 up to x9. At 50,60,70 people can buy gear with tomes so wont shop much. the MILLION market bits dont usually venture down that far, so only be dealing with other crafters, which, since they are all trying to get their piece of the neo market, should let you make some gil

The most profitable crafts in the game come from the random chance you get the required mats from the content that gives it. Even after you obtain/craft it, you will have stiff competition from those just a lucky as you are, on another chance encounter that one of the small percentage of players who can afford it will buy yours before your competition undercuts it by one gil in your sleep.

Making gil via the MB isn't rocket science, nor is it difficult to establish sustainable profit. However, if you want gil flowing out of your pockets in large chunks, you have to put in the time. Personally, I find my time better spent bringing in smaller profits consistently rather than banking on a few big ticket items. A combination is actually ideal where you have at least one high ticket item up, but still bring in those smaller profits.

No matter how you look at it though, it is next to impossible to find in demand items that are in low supply, so you have to swim with the sharks if you want to make a lot of gil.

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Originally Posted by The_Distinguished_Anarchist

I have roughly 48 various items spread across several retainers that have gone unsold for close to a month now. Every piece of advice I've read and received for crafting and selling has failed to yield any significant returns. I routinely go to bed with the only postings of certain items on the market board, then wake up to dozens of others reaching as low as 40% of my original list price or lower.

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If something isn't selling, stop and take a look at the sales history for that item. Has it been selling at all? If so, how often and at what price?

I can't count the times I get something back from quick ventures that I want to sell. I go to list it, see the currently listed items at 75k gil each then check the sale history. The item's been selling steadily at one or two sales per day but it's been selling at or under 20k each time. I know now that people are willing to pay up to 20k for the item but not 75k. I'm going to list at 20k. I don't want it sitting there taking up a listing spot for several days until I luck into someone willing pay the higher price. I want it sold today, or tomorrow at the latest, so I can list something else.

I make about a million a week from crafting. I dont put in much work.

Each week I have my retainers hunt for crafting materials, get some other materials from desynths, buy some from beast tribes, buy some from the market board and maybe spend about Twenty five minutes gathering other odd bits myself.

I put about twenty minutes into actual crafting. and about ten into checking the marketboard to see what what has a good price and moving average.

All in all I don't invest more then an hour and a half of my time into crafting and gathering each week and I don't bother crafting end game stuff (although I can 100% it very easily).

If you just want a relaxed gill income with little time investment the best thing to do is craft housing items, leveling equipment and old end game stuff that is now used for glamour.

Your biggest enemies are other crafters and people running quick exploration with their retainers. These people will undercut you all to heck. So make an effort to avoid making the obvious stuff (which is why I avoid current endgame items).

To limit the number of crafters your competing with make things that use components sourced from monster drops, timed nodes, the grand company, tomestones and yellow scrips. Fewer crafters will make these items so there will be less price dropping once you put something up for sale.

Be sure to check the sale history on items before crafting them. Not just the current price. If there are 10 of item X for sale already and the sale history shows that only 1 of item X moves in a month, then even if the price is currently high for item X you can expect a spiral of undercutting to reduce it before yours actually sells. On the other hand if the number that have sold within the last couple of days exceeds the number currently for sail, then you may be able to price it higher than those currently up and still see it move.

I also recommend price matching rather than undercutting. I mostly match the price other crafters list items for rather than undercutting. My items still sell, but by doing this the competition is less likely to undercut me in return, so when my items move they do so for more than they would after an undercutting war.

Like everything else, crafting got smacked hard by the "dumbed down" stick this expansion. Behind the abundance of more crafters, how easy recipes are and bots being allowd to run rampant, you'll not make much with the i480 gear or consumables. Your best bet is to find a few stable markets and see if you can settle in for a bit before switching over to something else as people catch on.

Simply put, you dont right now.

The game economy today is in the worst shape since Shb release, thats because its stagnant and overrun by bots.
Wait for the next patch and then you will be able to do some money, at least i hope so.