Prices of things

[fourskulls]

So I've reached a point where I want to start selling things, so I can buy more stuff. However I can't for the life of me wrap my head around how much to charge. For example, I've got an extra Transient Fortitude. Looking at Warframe.Market, you have people selling it as high as 499, and some for as low as 20. I don't want to get ripped off, and I don't want to gouge somebody. How do I know what's a fair price? (I really need a Fleeting Expertise, it's the only corrupted mod I don't have).

Also, how long do I need to hang onto the platinum to make sure it's not dirty? I remember hearing 5 days?

[Sceles]

There isn't any single reason why anyone would buy anything from you if there is someone who offers the same thing for cheaper.

[IblisFlare]

For a mod like Transient Fortitude, 15-20p is what I sell for.

[PhellAsleep]

I would recommend filtering your trade chat to just "WTB" listing. You will see what people want and get a general sense of how much they're willing to pay for it.

[fourskulls]

Well, I went to Maroo's and sold a bunch of those mods for around 25p each. However I had somoene ask for one of my veiled melee Rivens for 30, which I took. He pm'd me back that it was "dual heat sword mod - RIP". Just wondering when selling veiled rivens, is it buyer beware, or should I bear some responsibility here?

[PhellAsleep]

Originally posted by fourskulls:

Well, I went to Maroo's and sold a bunch of those mods for around 25p each. However I had somoene ask for one of my veiled melee Rivens for 30, which I took. He pm'd me back that it was "dual heat sword mod - RIP". Just wondering when selling veiled rivens, is it buyer beware, or should I bear some responsibility here?

No one takes responsibility for RNG.

[Sceles]

Originally posted by fourskulls:

Well, I went to Maroo's and sold a bunch of those mods for around 25p each. However I had somoene ask for one of my veiled melee Rivens for 30, which I took. He pm'd me back that it was "dual heat sword mod - RIP". Just wondering when selling veiled rivens, is it buyer beware, or should I bear some responsibility here?

Using Maroo's Bazaar is a huge waste of time. Through warframe.market you can find a buyer in less than 10 minutes. Even the trade chat is faster than Maroo's. People also often price check from warframe.market before doing trades in-game so you're always competing against warframe.market prices even if you don't list anything there.

[KIREEK]

Unlike what others may say, everyone has a different type of budget and not everyone uses warframe market, so the best option is to make up your mind a value that would make you happy and then try and sell it to see if you find anyone with that budget.
2 outcomes if you can't find anyone:
- you lower the price, you will be unhappy with the trade but you end up finding a seller quickly
- you remain the price and either keep trying to sell it or you halt the selling of said item as it isn't worth the effort.

Sure selling for 5 plat is easy, but it will ake alot of mods at 5 plat to even buy a skin, you have to decide if the effort is worth it.

Do not use warframe market to sell stuff, because you either compete directly with other players (and trolls who specify prices and are always "online" but never actually respond, aka trying to bring the price down) or the price you're using is so low that you just might forget about selling it.

Find your own price, use the market to buy stuff instead, you think of a budget and then you check if someone is selling whithing the range you specified, every time you have a question on how much your budget should be or how much you should sell things, then stop, spend 5 minutes and just think by yourself, if you learn these tips right now, they will save you hours related to thinking what the price for an item should be.

You have to be moderatly efficient at trading, when you trade you need to make a profit that makes you happy, otherwise you'll always be on the tail of those who use the market and only the market, fustration is inevitable if you do that.

Here's my example, don't use this as your own, i sell prime sets, and i use the formula 50 pl times the number of parts, so a 5 part one is 250, 4 parts 200, 3 parts 150 and while i get lot's of "you will never sell it", the rality is that i keep getting run out of prime sets to sell and i just wished that i had more, i also check warframe market as some players offer more than what i ask, so i take the ride.
Players that lecture you will exist, you just have to surpass that and sell things for a price that you want.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

To any informed buyer, the going price for any tradeable item is the lower warframe.market "Sell" listings posted by the people whose status is set at "Online In Game" (ignore "Offline" listings); not always the absolute lowest price there, but the lower few prices. Sure, you can sell higher like the person above me advises, but that is what is politely referred to as "fleecing uninformed chumps who don't know any better".

[fourskulls]

Well, I dumped my extras of Narrow Minded, Transient Fortitude, and Overextended for 25p each. I don't know if that was smart on my side, but it's done. I had someone ask me about one of the mods and I [ ] in the chat window, but it showed them the max rank item (for which they were willing to pay out 30p). When I put the unranked mod in the chat they were less than thrilled, but I got 25 out of it anyways. I think I'd ask for more than 25p for a mod that takes millions of credits to max out. Heck the ones I kept for myself aren't even maxed yet.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Originally posted by fourskulls:

Well, I dumped my extras of Narrow Minded, Transient Fortitude, and Overextended for 25p each. I don't know if that was smart on my side, but it's done. I had someone ask me about one of the mods and I [ ] in the chat window, but it showed them the max rank item (for which they were willing to pay out 30p). When I put the unranked mod in the chat they were less than thrilled, but I got 25 out of it anyways. I think I'd ask for more than 25p for a mod that takes millions of credits to max out. Heck the ones I kept for myself aren't even maxed yet.

Eek, you would've been majorly lowballed if you had actually sold a maxed 10-rank mod for a mere 30 plat. Narrow Minded or Transient Fortitude, last I checked, go for around 200p or more apiece at max rank. 25p is pretty normal for an unranked copy, though.