Totally Random Rare Sales

Well... that is the quickest chunk of cash I have ever aquired out of the blue.

To set the story out in short steps (without totally losing the point):

#1. I found I had too many pieces of cloth and rather than sell them to a standard merchant I wanted to sell them to a material trader to make a slight profit.
#2. I was in Zehlon Refuge... but didn't want to deal with Kamadan (I don't like it), so I decided to sell in Haus Zu Heltzer... which involved going through Kaineng Center.
#3. While in Kaineng Center for all of 5 seconds... yes... 5 seconds... I noticed someone asking to buy a Req.9 15^50 Mursaat Hornbow. Now I happened to know I had a Gold Mursaat Hornbow in storage, though I wasn't sure what it was worth. I kept it because it looked pretty.
#4. I go to check my gold storage character and find out the Mursaat Hornbow is indeed Req.9 15^50 ... so I stick it in the Xunlai box and get it out with my Assassin....
#5. I sell the Mursaat Hornbow for 100k +25e ... which while not quite halfway up the recommended price, is WAY more than I ever expected it to be worth.
#6. I tuck the money and ecto in storage, nip on over to Haus Zu Heltzer... and trade in my 49 cloth for 227 gold....

=P


I can't help but wonder what other golds I have stashed away in storage that might be worth a small fortune.... 0_o; ... I'm SUCH a pack-rat...

Anyone got any words of wisdom to impart.... or tales of similar completely random uber-sales? ....

Congrats on the sale! I wish I had some gold Maybe I will get a lucky random sale like you did

Very nice.

Next time... LOCKPICKS! Not ectos, LOCKPICKS!

Much as I like lockpicks, I can't make FoW armour out of them.
I'm not using those Ectos as currency. If I can get any more, I'm saving them for FoW armour. ^_^

That, of course, is completely different. With the way ectos are plunging in price, FoW armor may soon be a reality for more people that actually want it.

I wish you luck!

Ehm ecto=shard price in the coming future im quite sure! As an old threat stated b4 there isnt a need for a currnecy called Ecto anymore! The only reason ectos are dropping is because the old Wealthy people are Affraid and very Affraid! they trade in their ecto as crazy men only to get more lockpicks which are more price secure!

nouf said about that!

Good thing about the sale!

b4 selling anything to anyone just check out guru auction for the current bidding on them and go +15% or +20% above that price in game since in game traders are slow :P

haha

there are also a few sticky's in the price check forum the prices maybe outta date but they give a good reference point

i had a similar experience a long looong time ago,when dead swords were worth more than squat...i had a req 9 DS drop for me with some bogus inscription and no other mods so i gave it to my best friend Koss ^_^(now he got a zodiac set of weps but that ain't important)and i was going to sanctuary to see what was happening over there and i'm seeing the prettyest add ever "wtb dead sword req 9! whisp your price!" and so i did "100k +27 ectos".and that was it actually.no questions asked guy came up to me traded me the cash and ectos for the DS and ran off.Best customer i've ever had

My last big sale that was fast was just 2 weeks ago.

While inbetween farm runs in Urgoz I would post a WTS +5ep zod sword req 9 100k+20e took me as soon as I entered again to farm more when i got a whisper to sell. Got my 100k+20e for it.

WOW...

Nice 1 there Soti!!!

I aint had THAT much luck, but I been sitting on an Assa elite tome for like 3 weeks now, was passing thru the Big K (Kamadan) and saw someone spamming WTB assa elite, I PMed him 10K and he traded me... Not quiet 100K+xe but was still a quick and unexpected buck

Back when I was poor, I met a guy who willingly paid me 10K each to fetch him three different collectors weapons.

.....The part where you HAD to switch to your assassin before selling the bow, and the part where you WENT to HzH to sell some cloths to the material trader instead of selling to him in Kaineng are so.....BIZARRE.

Both are explained well enough.

#1. My assassin I was using in the first place. He is the one I had the cloth with... he is the character who has access to the most outposts (only character to have completed all three campaigns. I was just taking him through Kaineng when I heard it.
As for why I didn't sell with the character who HAD the Mursaat Hornbow... that'd be because Amazing Storage Kim, my gold-storage character.... is a level 3 Ranger whose furthest wanderings are as far as Tsumei Village. My assassin was already in kaineng... so I transferred the item over to him.

#2. Why Haus Zu Heltzer? ... That requires a slightly more fanciful explanation: I'm a Kurzick. I'm a die-hard Kurzick. I'm also a roleplayer. Aside from that, I like Haus Zu Heltzer more than Kaineng Center... and I like Kaineng Center more than I like Kamadan (due to my liking Cantha more than Elona). Factor in also that I dislike people and dislike spam... and it becomes clearer why I was making a beeline for Haus Zu Heltzer. Besides... HzH is actually smaller, which means less running, and less people means it is easier to click on the right merchant. PLUS I don't have a materials trader in my guildhall.


Plus I'm Aspergian... and just downright weird in my habits...
I insist on all my characters being in specific places when I log out, so they all have separate images behind their face icons on the login screen... For instance I often keep my Assassin in the Bone Palace for the Desolation Background. I keep my Necromancer in Lutgardis Conservatory for the Echovald background. I keep my monk in the Astralarium with the Istan background. I keep my Elementalist in Senji's Corner for the Kaineng Background. I keep my Dervish in Yohlon Haven for the Kourna background.
On the odd occasion they can change... such as when I move my Necromancer to somewhere in the Southern Shiverpeaks, I'll bring Chae Soon to Lutgardis to take her place. Similarly when my necro is doing the unthinkable and farming in Luxon territory (Maishang Hills), I'll move my Assassin from the bone palace to Lutgardis... When Cot Death returns to Lutgardis, Chae Soon goes back to Bone Palace.

....I don't think a true Kurzick would spell HzH as HAUS Zu Heltzer.....unless you're a luxon-spy wannabe.

And it's still bizarre that you had to HOP to HzH when the material trader in Kaineng is very close to the storage anyway. If you can stand WHATEVER it was in Kaineng to trade the bow for that insane amount of gold/ecto, you don't have any excuse left NOT to use the material trader.....other than THE reason I don't think I should say here.

But....whatever get you through the day, right?

I was on my way to Haus Zu Heltzer... apologies for the previous abbreviation. It was a grievous error on my part.... though I'd put the ability to spy beyond those Luxon pirates. Far too subtle for them. If I was a Luxon I'd not be able to help going "ARRRR!!" every few moments.

But anyway... that I was going to Haus Zu Heltzer was the whole point of it. I wasn't about to turn around and hunt down the material trader in Kaineng Center since I'd already made the decision that I was going to sell that material in Haus Zu Heltzer. I'd made that decision in Yohlon Haven... and I stuck by it.

err....whatever.

But for god sake, it's HOUSE zu Heltzer!

I bought a req8 Long Sword for 10k from one of those spam-bot sellers, and sold it 5 mins later (to a guy I knew, who wanted one) for 80k. Teehee.

Leave him alone! He's not the only one who has odd habits in game. I find it amusing that people were ranting(?) about his choice of House Zu Heltzer as a town for trading cloth in the same way people rant about people who run rubbish builds in missions...it really doesn't matter where he was going to trade cloth now does it? The only mistake(?) SotiCoto made was to say that on a public forum leaving himself open for much...criticism?

As for me, I loathe having to travel through Kaineng Centre and Kamadan when switching continents also and have developped a habit of selecting the highest numbered district in each trading town to map into, so as I avoid the majority of the spam on my way through, not to mention they're quieter and tend to load faster. Furthermore I tend to almost always keep local and trade chat turned off. I wish I liked spending time in Kaineng Centre more as I love the background music in Kaineng. I too hoard like mad and may well have many saleable items but just never seem to get around to selling them. Note to self: Must try harder.

I love kaining centre i always find a nice buy sell there like a jade sword for 20K that i sold for 100+5 . But i also hate kamadan theres always 4 districts full of people spamming the same things ¬¬.

.... That sounds like Luxon talk to me... >_~ ...

*Searches Cacheelma for peg-legs, hook-hands, eye-patches or parrots*

dup post, sorry.

Well, I'm not very rich (30k in the bank and saving), so I don't have any Mursatt Hornbows, Crystallines, Elemental Swords, etc lying around in my storage, but I had a nice experience last night similiar to Destinyy's story above.

I got an elite mesmer tome from a Tombs run chest a few weeks ago and it's been laying around collecting dust. I tried to sell it for 10k a few times, but no takers. Last night I was in LA on other business and saw a Necro typing
"Need Elite Mesmer Tome! Will trade an Elite Necro Tome for it!"

Well, my necro desperately wants SS, but she's nowhere near the Shiverpeaks yet. She's pretty much a factions only character right now. So I jumped on this deal in a heartbeat and now I have 1 happy Necro! (If it's possible to have a happy necro. They all look so serious and glum.)

One time this random guy sold me a bone dragon for 75k when they were worth 100k+25e...go figure...

Not to long ago I came into LA International dist and saw a guy spamming "I'll give 100k for a "brain over brawn" +15% -5e inscription" I thought he was kidding so I pm'd him saying that I had one. He opened trade with me and to my suprise gave me 100k for it.

This story made me smile.

Since we're talking crazy trades that you benefited from, it was selling my Arbor Earth Staff a few weeks after Nightfall came out.

Hanging out in Kamadan someone said "Buying Arbor Earth Staff 115k!"

PM'd him, things we're said and he said "But trade only goes up to 100k" .. I certainly didn't want to argue and drag it on and on, so I just shut up, put the weapon up, he put up 100k.
Trade was made and hot damn. 100k for Arbor Earth Staff :P

Please drop it. Picking on people unnecessarily ftl...

Im not afraid in the slightest. Ecto has been lower than what is at in the past.


@OP nice trade. I sold my +44hp enchant tall shield in la 2 from random spam and that began my power trading career.