hard to sell things on GAH now...?

[AnimeCraze]

We had a drop rate patch already, no? That and the inferno nerf made me less pressed to use the AH, if anything. I mean, when things are doable, you will try to save up the gold to get your real endgame gear, instead of the intermediate gears that most people are selling.

 

[Hideo]

It puzzles me why some people say they wouldn't spend real money on "pixels". Dudes, WHOLE D3 is "pixels". Most of you bought it for 60 to 100 bucks, no?

 

[SWalker]

We had a drop rate patch already, no?

I'm talking about the drop rate of legendaries specifically.

 

[Zerohour]

I'm having almost no problem selling through my auctions so I don't know what people are doing to get such poor results. This morning I logged in and 7 out of the 10 I had up last night were sold for appx 1.2 million income.

I don't deal in super high end items (anything more than 1 mill), except sparingly. High end when I list take more than a few listings to locate a buyer and if the item exceeds the 3-5 million threshold I send it over to the RMAH.

I sell mostly clvl 50 through 60 items. The average price of one of my auctions is between 50 and 100k, I always try to list at least one 250-750k item per day.

My auctions always have a Buyout on them that I actually take 1-2 minutes to look up. My bid price is generally 50% of the buyout.

I have a stockpile of goodies to sell (3 mules including 2 tabs of the stash) which are all pieces my five 60s cannot use or would treat as a downgrade (I tend to alternate the majority of my sets between wiz/wd and monk/dh). All pieces contain stat/vita/interesting stat. Interesting stat being All Res, Crit Chance, Crit Damage, IAS, High Magic Find, Radius, etc. or a combination of them.

Things don't always sell immediately, but when they do it's nice.

I can somewhat agree with the gold being difficult for some so they don't get a lot to spend, because I know the majority of players aren't as good at the game so they get high end repair bills. I primarily play Monk now and farm Act 1 Warden/Butcher and Act 3 Siege with a balanced spec. Repair costs aren't a problem because I don't throw myself at combos that are greater than my character and I know which ones will be a problem. My Act 1 runs net about 200-300k per hour and Act 3 I just run for high odds of 63s so I know people like me have gold for the occasional upgrade.

Now if you are a person trying to sell something that I would normally sell for 100k for 100m-2 billion, then yes you will get the item back. Most people aren't as good at auctioning as they thought they were because the market was a laydown in the beginning and everyone needed gear. I sold for years on Ebay so I am very adept at putting together quality auctions in tough markets. If you think this is hard, you've not seen anything yet.

 

[SWalker]

Wow, long and confident post.

First things first - hello to the forum and have a nice stay.

I'll try to put this gently - 50-100k auctions aren't exactly what most people here are talking about as it's simply not worth most people's slots to be dealing with such items. One point two million gold isn't exactly groundbreaking either, I've made 4m income and it's still 20:30 but that's irrelevant it's all about profits and consistent sales (of items above the couple hundred k range).

 

[Moik]

I think the main thing to bear in mind here is that most people probably aren't currently complaining so much that they can't move anything at all, as they're just saying there's a difference in their degree of success two weeks ago, and now.

My pricing strategy before (post for 75% the lowest cost of items 75% as good; ex i'd post a 200 dex item for 75k if the lowest priced 150 dex item is 100k), which was able to move about 15 GAH and 1-2 RMAH items per weeknight before, is now only moving 3-5 GAH items a weeknight, and no RMAH items.

People's solutions to selling problems did work before, but do not work now.

That inconsistency is more the point of discussion.

 

[stillman]

Just from my experience, it sucks to spend 5+ million on an item that only adds a few percent of w/e mod. So, maybe people are in the phase of saving up 10's of millions for something that will give a dramatic boost.

 

[galzohar]

How many hours/day do you farm to only be selling items worth more than 1mil? I find maybe 1-2 of those per few hours of farming and I clear all elites in act 2 in 1.5 hours... Maybe people *think* their items are worth millions but in fact they aren't. I mean, look at the AH, it's full of overpriced items (though imo it's mostly because the non-overpriced items got sold quickly).

If you price your auctions right they WILL sell. People are buying. Less people or more doesn't matter other than maybe affecting the price. But if your items don't sell you simply didn't price them right.

 

[BRKO]

It puzzles me why some people say they wouldn't spend real money on "pixels". Dudes, WHOLE D3 is "pixels". Most of you bought it for 60 to 100 bucks, no?

Indeed but d3 as a whole has some value itself while those pixels purchased in RMAH do not.
Imo it is retarded to spend real money on microtransactions and support this thievery system. Im really surprised how many people do this.

 

[viledevil]

lol so you can pay for the pixels but you can't pay for the pixels? how do you measure that marginal value as zero? i'd love to see the math behind that...

 

[Accaris]

I agree with the OP. I invested in the 6-prop pants plans and although the GAH says that I should be making money off these items, no matter how much I undercut, they just don't sell. I'm actually losing money crafting.

It seems like we're back to the Diablo 2 standard. There's a very small group of players with "godly" gear and hundreds of millions of gold, and then there's the rest of us. We missed our chance to "buy in" by exploiting resplendent chests, botting, and doing pony glitch runs. As a result, all the best gear will be forever unattainable, because we can't make money, can't save up, and the only way for us to get drops is to legitimately farm, and we all know how well that goes. I'm just glad I got my wizard up to 60k DPS while I could, but it seems like he's stuck there. Time to move on!

 

[Punkonjunk]

I'm having almost no problem selling through my auctions so I don't know what people are doing to get such poor results. This morning I logged in and 7 out of the 10 I had up last night were sold for appx 1.2 million income.

I don't deal in super high end items (anything more than 1 mill), except sparingly. High end when I list take more than a few listings to locate a buyer and if the item exceeds the 3-5 million threshold I send it over to the RMAH.

I sell mostly clvl 50 through 60 items. The average price of one of my auctions is between 50 and 100k, I always try to list at least one 250-750k item per day.

My auctions always have a Buyout on them that I actually take 1-2 minutes to look up. My bid price is generally 50% of the buyout.

I have a stockpile of goodies to sell (3 mules including 2 tabs of the stash) which are all pieces my five 60s cannot use or would treat as a downgrade (I tend to alternate the majority of my sets between wiz/wd and monk/dh). All pieces contain stat/vita/interesting stat. Interesting stat being All Res, Crit Chance, Crit Damage, IAS, High Magic Find, Radius, etc. or a combination of them.

Things don't always sell immediately, but when they do it's nice.

I can somewhat agree with the gold being difficult for some so they don't get a lot to spend, because I know the majority of players aren't as good at the game so they get high end repair bills. I primarily play Monk now and farm Act 1 Warden/Butcher and Act 3 Siege with a balanced spec. Repair costs aren't a problem because I don't throw myself at combos that are greater than my character and I know which ones will be a problem. My Act 1 runs net about 200-300k per hour and Act 3 I just run for high odds of 63s so I know people like me have gold for the occasional upgrade.

Now if you are a person trying to sell something that I would normally sell for 100k for 100m-2 billion, then yes you will get the item back. Most people aren't as good at auctioning as they thought they were because the market was a laydown in the beginning and everyone needed gear. I sold for years on Ebay so I am very adept at putting together quality auctions in tough markets. If you think this is hard, you've not seen anything yet.

THIS. you can net 200K easy on really nice, top of the level bracket items, especially weapons, especially at level breakpoints: 30, 50, and 50-60. lots of people are re-rolling aand have the gold to pump into crap for leveling.

 

[buralien]

THIS. you can net 200K easy on really nice, top of the level bracket items, especially weapons, especially at level breakpoints: 30, 50, and 50-60. lots of people are re-rolling aand have the gold to pump into crap for leveling.

The problem is that items for levels 30-50 just don't drop on your typical Inferno run. Running Act2 Hell just to farm lower level items (with no chance for iLvl 61+ items) to sell for 100-200k just doesn't seem to be a profitable strategy.