My merchant sells NOTHING, I don't understand...

[Estellios]

FYI, if it's very low level gear there are NPCs that are in the adventurer's guilds and class guilds, among other places, that sell a lot of very affordable low level gear. That may be a reason why your stuff isn't selling, the NPCs are just very convenient (at the time they were released, there were new players coming in but there was a lot of trouble getting starter gear). This is only up to around the teens/20ish gear where the NPC prices start to get ridiculous and encourage players to buy from the markets or seek out crafters.

[NefarioCall]

I've got 22 million gil, so here's how i do it.
Yes i know, i should SPEND it, and i will. I plan to spend it all actually,
but not just yet, anyways.

First, materia.
USUALLY, at least for a few items someone is selling rank 41-50 gear on mass.
Electrum Rings are a prime example. You can buy these super cheap.
Doesn't matter if you're level 1.
Buy a full set of Rank 41-50 gear cheap that is not a required rank item.
Grade III and IV Materia is what people pay the most for, so start making it.

Second, mass materials.
Fishing and Logging are nice, but they aren't as big as Mining.
People are buying Silver Ore, Mythril Ore, Cobalt Ore, and Iron Ore by the hundreds each day.
Whatever your level in Mining, you're good to go really from pretty early on with this.
Mine, sell.

Crafting Leves.
i appreciate the interest in buying materials to spam synth all day, but it's expensive.
You can go beyond the leve limit this way and i have done so on numerous occasions,
but the game is built primarily well on this level.
Crafting leves usually give you materials people are buying.
At Rank 30 leves and up i find each one is worth around 15-25K gil in materials each, and they are free to do.
It adds up fast.

But random obscure stuff at the moment, is not a big seller.
Hopefully it will be when this game gets going,
but today, not so much.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

Two hours to level 20 eh? Maybe with help.. We did nothing but leve's and it took 6 hours or so of play time. >.> You have to remember we're talking 100% 1's, no extra skills to help us ect, unless you know something I don't?

If you come to gysahl (another high pop server) i can help you and your GF to get that levels back ^~^

[OdynKorsai]

If you come to Rabanastre I could also get you and your GF those levels back very quickly

[SirOleas]

This is entertaining because last night was the first time I put my retainer into the wards (I recently picked up mining.)
Put all my silver/mythril ore into it at competing prices and woke up the next day with 900k in my retainer.

*shrugs*

[NefarioCall]

This is entertaining because last night was the first time I put my retainer into the wards (I recently picked up mining.)
Put all my silver/mythril ore into it at competing prices and woke up the next day with 900k in my retainer.

i was a miner in FFXI too.
I'll always be a miner.
Ores are just good for so many things.
i was also VERY HAPPY to see that Darksteel ore exists in this game.

[Scherwiz]

If you come to Istory you might get ball stomped, but I'm busy so I can't do it.

[darkstarpoet1]

This is entertaining because last night was the first time I put my retainer into the wards (I recently picked up mining.)
Put all my silver/mythril ore into it at competing prices and woke up the next day with 900k in my retainer.

*shrugs*

that goes back to the difference between a high pop and low pop server though. you may sell it overnight, but a smaller pop server may have that same stack sit there for weeks. it's not all about price and item. it also needs someone looking for the item when it is up at the cheapest price. more people on a server will always mean a higher chance that one person looking for what you are selling is there.

[Molly_Millions]

Ya, short and to the point, I misunderstood, it's fine I'm new and have a lot of grinding to do, I'll do leves for money to buy over priced equipment on my dead server. xD

Don't buy over priced equipment, buy the mats instead.

[Delsus]

Don't buy over priced equipment, buy the mats instead.

This, you can save alot of money buying the mats for gear, and finding a crafter, an example is dyed gear, people will charge upto 100k more for a dyed version of gear, and alot of the time you can dye your own gear for about 20k on top of the base version.

And for your exp make friends with a lvl 50 thm and get a pl.

And for your selling problem sell crafting mats, materia and high level gear.

Miner is a briliant way to make money, you will get a mass of copper ore at low level, they sell cheap but you get that many they can make you a decent amount if the demand is there from low level gsm, as you level up you will get raw gemstones at lvl 8 which are used to make gemstones and a bit later rings and earrings, and when silver ores come, you will be laughing because they can be used for gsm quite late I think.

Btw these miner things are around uldah, only place I have mined.