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Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by Androsynth on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:38PM (#5652791)
I've always found arbitrage to be the best way to earn money in mmo's. I used to buy up all levels of cheap green items in the wow auction house, according to exact limits i came up with and stored in a spreadsheet. then i would disenchant them and sell the byproduct.

It was time consuming, but i made a lot of money and it took a long time before anyone else figured it out and joined in. the problem was it only took a few people on a server to skew the prices of the masses. but by then i had a lordship and manor in every city in the eastern kingdoms.

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Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by err_badprocrast on Friday May 03, 2013 @11:21PM (#5653837)
The definitive version of that which printed vast bucketloads of internet money was the JC Shuffle.

buy ore (direct from farmers aka botters) -> prospect ore -> craft green rings (I think? been a while) -> disenchant -> sell enchanting scrolls and cut rare gems left over from prospecting

In Guild Wars 2 I found some other interesting arbitrage opportunities - for example, Mystic Coins (available from monthly and daily tasks) had very predictable price cycles due to supply spikes on the first few days when it became possible to complete the monthly task.

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Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by henrikschroder on Saturday May 04, 2013 @06:06AM (#5654610)
> but by then i had a lordship and manor in every city in the eastern kingdoms.

You had a what now? :-)

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Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by LancerSykera on Friday May 03, 2013 @06:45PM (#5653105)
I ended up late for work many days from mass-disenchanting.
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Re:How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE O... by antoko on Friday May 03, 2013 @11:20PM (#5653831)
....of the boar... +spi and +sta not a single class wanted those greens but they disenchant to the same as the others... loved those ugly greens :)
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