Auction house to make money still work?

[Mangy Camel]

I know this has been asked a lot but I'm wondering if money can still be made at the auction house. I dont have time to grind out 10s of millions of dollars so I was hoping I could boost by using the auction house. I apparently suck I cant seem to get the timing down to snipe, any other suggestions on how to make money in this game a little faster?

[MBK]

Get the new cars of the month, then sell them one week later when their auction price increases. If you can't snipe, your options are severely limited

[tommy]

What ive found, making your cars look stock sells a lot quicker then adding a bunch of crap designs to it.
Seeing a stock car up for Auction that im keen on would make me buy it more.

Most buy to add to the collection so throw a few cars up on 24hrs.
Hope it works out for you.

[Mangy Camel]

Thanks guys, any tips on how to snipe? I must not get the timing right when it goes to ending soon. Every time I just get bid failed over and over till the auction ends. Theres a knack to it, I just havent gotten it yet.

[n3mes1s]

No. Its not really worthy. The only way the auction house can be useful to boost your credits is if you are a legendary player. That way you can sell the most expensive cars for their maximum value. If not, most of the times, if you sell something you are going to gain very little profit if it all. But if it happens that if you reach that player level (its about how many hours did you played more than the player level itself) you are not going to need credits anymore anyways... so.

The design of the auction house is not broken. It is just terrible. I guess its the same thing.

[TheHuskyGT]

Farm for Forzathon points and buy whatever cars are available at the forzathon point shop. Sell them at the auction house, making sure to check its actual market value. Complete seasonal events and hope that you get repetitions to sell them at the Auction House.

This is the best and only way to get good money. Just take in mind that the game has been out for a while and most people have all the cars already, which has reduced their value.

Combine this with grinding the end-game huge tracks, or make your own huge tracks and do a couple of laps there. Play in Unbeatable with no assists to boost your credit prize. Also don't forget to apply perks to your cars. Some might give you boosters to make even more money.

And last, if you have the Ultimate Edition or have bought Fortune Island, do the treasure hunts. This will give you a few millions quickly, while have some fun.

[Bagel]

Yes it works ez pz with exclusive cars, you just need some quick fingers

Wait for the new Pontiac Firebird to be released in 2 weeks.
One day later, when it gets unlocked in the auction house, grab as many as you can for 100k - 300k
Wait 2 - 3 weeks and sell each one of them for 20 mil

This is how I became billionaire in no time.

[Aaron]

It's really all about finding deals. For some odd reason, there's cars that market are say 8 million and you've got a bidding war going on with people raising it to 6-7 million. Well, sometimes there's that same car, same price, sitting at just 500k. There's times you will get those cars, there's time you won't even be able to get a bid accepted.

The old saying you've gotta have money to make money still rings true. And I still find it to be the best method of making money in-game for the amount of effort you're putting in.

Also, if you have any extra backstage passes or don't mind using one or two to get your legs under you financially. Buy the Ferrari 599XX Evo, list it on the auction house, go back and buy another and just rinse and repeat. It always gets bought out for around 8.5 - 9.5m in under 5 minutes.

[BCFreeman]

If you have time to burn, buy low sell high!

[Bagel]

This week the Jeep Gladiator will be available. Grab as many as you can from auction house on Friday when it can be auctioned and sell them 2 - 3 weeks later. And that's how you'll get rich without getting scammed or banned.

[reverb]

You can transform your skill points into credits. These cars have a 300,000 credit payout available via their mastery boards:

2007 Alfa Romeo 8C
1991 Hoonigan Porsche 911 Turbo Rauh-Welt
2010 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV
2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Forza Edition
1966 MG MGB GT
2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS
2004 Saleen S7
All of the Formula Drift DLC cars
2016 Audi R8 V10 Plus
1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302
2005 Honda NSX-R
2015 Jaguar XKR-S GT
2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 65 AMG Black S.
1973 Nissan Skyline H/T 2000 GTR
1969 Nissan Fairlady Z 432
2012 Porsche 911 GT3 RS4.0
1982 Porsche 911 Turbo 3.3

The last one you can buy for 150,000 in autoshow. After unlocking the 300,000 card from mastery you can just delete it from your garage and do it again. So even if you don't own any of the cars, if you have skill points you can win 150,000 credits each time you buy that car.

Originally posted by Donut:

This week the Jeep Gladiator will be available. Grab as many as you can from auction house on Friday when it can be auctioned and sell them 2 - 3 weeks later. And that's how you'll get rich without getting scammed or banned.

People will sell a new car that they've never had? And if they do, won't they put maximum price on it since there's bound to be buyers?

[Bagel]

Originally posted by Thief 🩸:

Originally posted by Donut:

This week the Jeep Gladiator will be available. Grab as many as you can from auction house on Friday when it can be auctioned and sell them 2 - 3 weeks later. And that's how you'll get rich without getting scammed or banned.

People will sell a new car that they've never had? And if they do, won't they put maximum price on it since there's bound to be buyers?

Nope. the action house AI needs a few days until it can adjust the maximum buyout price to match the demand. During that time the Gladiator will (most likely) be sold dirt cheap. 2 - 3 weeks later the buyout price cap will raise with the demand and those who bought it shortly after it's debut will profit, big time!

I remember buying the Rimac C Two for 130k credits and selling it for 20 Million cr a few weeks later.

And adding the fact that the Gladiator is completely new to the Forza franchise and it's a car from 2020, the demand fir it will be even higher.

[chrissus]

Originally posted by Mangy Camel:

Thanks guys, any tips on how to snipe? I must not get the timing right when it goes to ending soon. Every time I just get bid failed over and over till the auction ends. Theres a knack to it, I just havent gotten it yet.

That's not the best way. Usually you're searching for rare cars, let's say a Corvette '20 C8 for less than 3m, you refresh over and over until you get one, use quick buyout with the y-button and then you post it for more credits.

Advanced tactic is using filters like cars from 2020 or others. Newly added cars are usually hard to snipe in the release-week

[Bagel]

Originally posted by 762s:

Originally posted by Donut:

Nope. the action house AI needs a few days until it can adjust the maximum buyout price to match the demand. During that time the Gladiator will (most likely) be sold dirt cheap. 2 - 3 weeks later the buyout price cap will raise with the demand and those who bought it shortly after it's debut will profit, big time!

I remember buying the Rimac C Two for 130k credits and selling it for 20 Million cr a few weeks later.

And adding the fact that the Gladiator is completely new to the Forza franchise and it's a car from 2020, the demand fir it will be even higher.

there is no "demand" pricing in this game
none of us can ask for a car or place offers for cars and the game has no idea what we want.

the auction house prices are set by how quickly a car sells and at what price they sell, not by demand.

several high priced(16 million) cars recently hit 20 million for a few days because how many of them where being sold at 16 million, not by demand.
and once they hit 20 million and no one was buying them anymore their priced dropped back to 16 million.
one car sat at 16 million for a day or two and raised back up to 20 million days later because people where buying them again and of course they dropped back down to 16 million a couple days later because no one wants to buy 20 million dollar car.

the new firebird price has raised 7 hundred thousand over a couple days but, i doubt we will see it hit 20 million as there is not enough of them being sold fast enough.
you never see 10~20~30 of these cars sitting on the auction block at one time.

the new tachyon hit 20 million because you could always buy one on the auction block, they were always there. that is not demand that is over stock, buying/selling something no one really wanted.
there was no demand for that car as they where always there!
then when the devs decided to stop the 20 million dollar tachyon sales they released the car again ... and we see that they flooded the market and the priced dropped for that car to 5 million because the buy out price was being pushed down. all the quick lower priced sales caused the massive price drop on that car.

that tachyon car is a perfect example of there being no demand pricing in the game ... its simply selling off a car to make profit and exploiting the horrible algorithm the devs designed, its not the buying of a car because we all want it and thats what drives the price up!

if there was a real demand then the cars you dont ever see that people want would be priced the highest but, its not like that at all.

the devs auction house pricing algorithm is busted!

The demand for cars does matter and you can measure it when you look at how quick your auctioned car gets sold. If it's gone within a few femto seconds, then it's really hot. And if the demand is high then you should wait because the price will raise.

It's the same as for example new consoles get released. Nobody is making any offers but still everyone is running to the store to get one. It's same with Forza

The reason why newly added cars skyrocket in price is not because of some bug or something. It's natural and can be explained. It's when a car gets brought into the game, the only way of getting it is by doing the weekly festival playlist and after the playlist expires, there is no other way to get it for a certain time and everyone who missed it is storming the auction house and the price raises along with the price cap.

[THISaint]

Just buy Porsche 911 1982 and use mastery points to get 300K.

You spend 150K on the car, and with getting 300K, you make 150K profit.