Hard to Sell Items
Never buy or accept a hard to sell item. Basically, cause it's hard to sell.
Why would you? Unless you want to keep it (which doesn't earn money). Only take items where you know both the price, and demand. People could all say it's worth 200k, but if no one is willing to buy at that price, it's not worth that much.
Check to see if anyone is bidding. If you see 5 people auctioning it off, but no one
bidding, maybe it's not worth that price. No one wants it.
Basically, never, ever take an item where you are unsure about it. It's
just not worth the hassle of selling it.
Usually the gimmick of "cheapest on the trading post" is false.
How do they know they have the cheapest on the post? You can only see 20
of them. They don't know it's the cheapest. Neither do you.
Even if it is the cheapest, do you even want it? Can you sell it to
someone else? Probably not. That's why they're trying to sell it to
you . . . "cheap".
Don't fall for the "only 5 in neoland". Yeah, there could only be 5 of them, but who gives a rat's ass? If no one wants it, even if there are only 5, you can't sell it. Say there's a "rare plushie". Only 5 in people's shops. So what? Who's going to want an item they never heard of? Nobody. You shouldn't either.
Don't take an item on the basis that there's "only ____ in neoland". It's a hard to sell item.
What happens if you get stuck with a hard to sell item? First of all, you shouldn't. if you do for whatever reason, bundle it with pure points or other items and trade for an easier to sell item. That's probably how you got stuck with it in the first place, so do the same to someone else.
You can also try to sell it to those people who roam the chat boards, looking for hard to sell items. They will buy it off of you, but probably not give you much. They make their money selling hard to sell items. You can do it yourself bundling it with lots of points and other items in trades, or sell to them. They post things like "will buy your hard to sell items" in chat. Hopefully you never need to go to them.
This is taken from the "Trading" section, but it applies here:
If you determine the value of an item based on what the seller claims the value is, you are going to get screwed. This applies in chat, as well as the trading post. This is an example in chat, and in the trading post.
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When they tell you what it's worth, it's always overpriced. Don't fall for it. By overpriced I mean yeah, they may say it's worth 120k, but if no one will pay 120k for it, IT'S NOT WORTH 120k. They may say it's worth 3 million, but if no one wants to pay 3 million, IT'S NOT WORTH 3 million. Seriously, why would someone sell an item that's actually worth 120k for only 70k? They're just as greedy as you are. People are not going to work hard to help make you money. They just couldn't get anyone to buy it at their high price (probably a price they got suckered into paying), and they just want to dump their hard to sell, junk, overpriced items. |
"Things are only worth what you can sell them for"
-My Dad
If they say "worth 50k but selling for 40k", generally, they are lying. Check the wiz. They may or may not be telling the truth. If it's over 100k, don't even bother. You don't know what the real value is. It could be 300k like they claim, it could be worth 105k. It may even be worth only 80k cause it's a hard to sell, even though it's unbuyable.
If you're not familiar with an item, it's best not to buy at all, no matter what kind of "deal" they make it out to be. Otherwise, you'll be in the same position as them. Trying to get rid of this hard to sell item that you paid too much for.
There's also a section I made that you should read. It's called Selling hard to sell buyables, and one way people try to dump their hard to sell items is using trades. You don't want to take one of these items, and this is how to avoid it.