Quote Originally Posted by LalaRu View Post
How to exchange items between alts

  • make the receiving character's retainer sell 1 trash at unreasonable price (how much, see below)
  • buy that trash with the sending character
  • sell the items you want transfer, with unreasonable price
  • go back the receiving character, and buy them with the Gil you got from previous sell
  • done


If you take care the market the retainer is, you also avoid fees.
If someone else buy your things, you also make a profit. Win-win situation.
You can only avoid the buying tax, you cannot avoid the selling tax. If you sell something on the market board for 100 gil you will only get 95 gil for that item, regardless of where it's sold or bought from. Your unreasonable price will be losing 5% on each item you sell (so twice on that one item to get the trash item sold and the real item sold in your example) which can get VERY expensive, depending on just how unreasonable that price is. I strongly recommend the free FC chest method or a very trustworthy friend.

Personally, I still use my buddy pass account from my 1.0 days as a mule account. There was no mail and no FC chest system back then (only linkshells and direct trades and market wards). It's expensive now that I have to actually pay for both accounts (I started it when there were no subscription fees then just couldn't let them go when that stopped) and I still can't mail things directly between mules on the same account, but it's safe and easy-ish and it works.

I'd really love account wide item storage/transfer options though >_<