KajitiSouls Wrote:Pap is lvl 125, so not even that.
Heh, your douche tactic reminds me that another aspect of a successful merchanter is being very, very patient. Yes, they mention waiting a few days and such for your stuff to sell, and that more often than not rewards you. It may be necessary to wait for weeks or even months for other possible deals however, given how volatile Nexon is with their updates recently. Take White Scrolls for example. In Khaini, they sell for about 350-400 mil, and you can find at least one every three days or so in FM. That's nice and all that if you have the money. But a sudden event may show up where you find a White Scroll for much cheaper, such as gachapon notices suddenly screaming "THIS GUY GOT A WS FROM GACHAPON!!!" every 5 seconds, or (most likely) someone trying to sell one for absurdly cheap. Case in point, I managed to rip off an alliance member who was desperate for a quick cash infusion and bought his White Scroll for 250 mil. This may seem trivial when you think about long-terms and such, but pinching every penny you have could eventually get you some of the nicest things around.
Being patient is not always the best way to go. I mean 1m-2m profit per scroll isn't a lot of profit if you think about it. I would start off merchanting for 5-50m deals as a beginner merchant until I have a good money pool of like 750- 1000m. Then during an event (let's say gold box event), I would buy items 100-500m underprice and resell for average price. Say you grab a Maple Warrior 30 for 300m and resell it for 900m (I've seen one for 350m anyways, didn't have enough to grab it atm).
Other times, not during an event, I would MTS merchant because the MTS always has a steady flow of cheap equipments throughout all servers that use MTS. Yellonde and demothos just opened up their MTS which means more deals for me. During normal times in which no events are occuring, there's simply not enough deals in the free market to make a good profit.
*In some cases being patient can make you a very rich person. I know a merchant who stocked up thousands of crystals before the patch that released Maker. He made tens of billions. Perhaps even hundreds of billions. But for me, I'd rather have quick profit over long term stuff like that. I may not be the most successful merchant, but I like to watch my mesos/nx amount skyrocket up rapidly. I also like to hoard gear for my mage/pirate.