my secret way to make money
Everyday, surfing through basilmarket,I see threads on how to make money fast- the same process, buy low sell high blah blah- and IMO, this is the worst and most time comsuming way to make money. First off, "buying low" - that's a pain beyond pain. It seems like a good idea to "buy low" but if you think about it, who wants to sell low? Nobody! Everyone wants more money on whatever their selling. Nobody's going to sell whatever their selling for a lower than average price because they feel like it. Everybody is trying to sell high, for more money.
Secondly, "sell high". This is worse. Who wants to buy high? No one! Everybody wants more for less money. Selling high takes a lot of time and effort, spamming in the FM, accepting trades only to get cut off because your price is too high, and lots of luck, which is not always worth it. No, buying low and selling high is the worst way to make money in this game.
So, how do YOU make money then, good sir? You may ask. Well, everyday, I follow a simple, repeatable, profit making schedule.
Before I reveal my secret, there are some things you need
-a shop (1800 nx) this is extremely important in making money. The other choice is to spam in the FM which is laggy, boring, and time wasting
-a good harvesting tool (5-20 mill?) I use a swift wrench, a gift from my beloved imp that I raised a while back, to harvest my money, ores.
-imps (those rock/leaf things that everyone despise)
-pounding hearts (left/right) necessary for raising your imps
-alarm clocks (left/right) not necessary IMO, but it speeds things up a lot
-lots of useless etcs that are close to your lvl!
- a high lvled character (not necessary, but more convenient)
-mining profession (preferably high lvled)
Now that you have everything you need, read on to find out my secret plan
-day 1- begin raising your imp. Feed it your useless equips while using your pounding hearts to maximize closeness to your imp until it falls asleep. Continue doing this for 7 days until your imp turns into a diamond. Open the diamond and get whatever is inside. Sometimes junk, sometimes valuables.
Go to a training map (preferably lvl 100+) with flat ground. I use LHC, but DGP, ghost pirates are also good. Mine all the ores there with your tool. If you press f2 while mining, you will get an success. Works every time.
After you finished the ores in the map, cc, and repeat until you have 70ish fatigue.
Process all your ores into plates at ardentmill, going from ores that use superior molds>advanced molds>intermediate molds. You shouldn't have any ores that use basic molds, those are worthless.
After you have processed all your ores, or reached full fatigue, go and set up you r FM store. The rest is easy. Sell your ores via your stores. The prices range from 700k each to 2 mill each. After you set up at a good spot ( I prefer ch2 fm 1-6), leave your computer on and go afk for a while.
Return after a few hours with 10-30 mill more in your pocket.
Profit.
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@Formyl: how long does it take for you to sell them all out?
This method is very time consuming but gives people a steady income with a 100% profit rate which is what I like about it. on the other hand very very very slow income for people who actually knows all their prices and could merch.
Also A LOT of people sell items for very low prices but actually do not know about it. i'v made billions from just merching, its pretty fun but doesn't give me a constant income, I either get lucky or just some weeks make nothing when I'm unlucky. I usually surf the whole fm and spend most of my time in FM entrance so I kinda get deals here and there. also another tip is ALWAYS i say ALWAYS pay attention to smegas u can never know what u'll find and get from the smegas. I gotta say i'v made most of my mesos from items in smegas by other people.
Players looking for a quick profit. e.g Heavy grinders, The Misinformed, Hackers, Noobs sell for low prices. That's what you buy
Players looking for a quick item e.g The funded, Hackers, Noobs buy for high prices
That margin of people is where you make the money which in a nutshell is merching. Sure there is more to it, but other than
1) Knowing prices
2) Spending Time
Merching which will yield in a MUCH larger profit than your method, which probably might work isn't as efficient.
Biggest flaw in your argument? "No one wants to sell low." True, what merchants look for are people who don't realize they're selling low. Which, is a pretty large percentage of maplers, it seems. It's not about what people want to do, it's what they do. And often, people just try to make a quick buck. Merchants feed off of that.
I'm pretty sure buying and selling STILL owns this method by far. You just gotta know when to buy and sell and what to buy and sell.
Example:
GM Scrolls mysteriously appear in the Golden Temple, but oh wait, there's protection wards and pam's song in the cash shop. Well screw those, GM is the way to go. Obviously, Nexon would remove these from the temple (or whos gonna buy NX for these wards and such anyway?). Why not buy a load of them? I invested 2.5b in GM scrolls and now I have a bit over 9b(they inflated massively, as you can see) in my inventory in just GM scrolls(not tryna show off, just comparing the magnitude of profits).
If this isn't clear enough, here's another example.
White scrolls, you see them on a frequent basis at 200m-300m per, and suddenly you see some person saying S>White scrolls for 100m each. Obviously, he's either trolling or he's a duper. You run around real quick and check for prices in stores. Effectively, some are still sold for a good 250-300m. Then again, why not buy a load? Re sold for 120m ea. An inversion of 30 white scrolls resulted in a profit of 600m. Since the fuzz of them being duped was just about to be started, people bought them rapidly, thinking I was selling dirt cheap. Those two examples are ways of making easy money. Took less than a day and a half to buy over 30 GM scrolls at a dirt cheap price. I haven't bothered selling cause eventually they might rise or I might just keep for future spear releases or whatever. The white scrolls were bought and re sold the same day. You can easily make 10m-30m in less than 30 minutes. ~> B> Dep star 30m. Believe me you will get traders. Set up your shop, re sell for 40m. So on and so forth.
Very time consuming.Who wants to sell low?Uninformed people,who wants to buy high ?Lazy people.Hence why merchanting works.We take the effort out of lazy peoples lives.
wow thx. this method just made me a billionaire. lalala thx man.
[b]Love[/b] this guide.
[b]Hate[/b] the others.
Not so secretive anymore!
Muahahaha!
I have 7 mining mules. o_o
Been doing this for a while and have a huge stockpile of bronze... been using the adamantium for myself.
[quote=darkstars590]Pressing F2 to have a success doesn't work. If it did work, then the opposite would work too. Pressing F4 would make it fail. Guess what, it doesn't happen. Many times, I use F2, and it fails to give me ores. But, the better way to get ores would be to go to the intermediate mine in Ardentmill and mine [b]ONLY[/b] the Brown Veins. Make the ores into plates and sell for 500-750k ea. Sure it gives less money than your way, but, it only takes 10 minutes to get that much.[/quote]
what is this "pressing"? i usually go to the intermediate mine for bronze/addy as well, but going to LHC lets me level and get rich at the same time. i guess - lvl 100 can just go to adentmill. but under lvl 100, you dont need that much funding anyways. its all about lvl 100+ when you start worrying about end game equips