While leveling alts, I've been selling the rares at 1k or 2k and sometimes higher. But it appears you can make some cash of the trash...

Keep in mind, that these are rares in the 50 and below level. I don't look at them at all to prevent any emotional attachment. Just ID and sell.

@Khan I feel like if you just vendor them it will net you a similar amount of gold. Does the extra gold earned justify the time needed to put up auctions and taking down ones that don't sell?

@razer22 They actually sell VERY quickly. I list and while in game all 10 sell. The time wasted for me is actually stopping the game and then listing more yellows or blues. It would be more efficient if they allowed more than 10 auction listings. One could theoretically earn more gold by researching the price of each item but I don't want to spend the time looking. I'm sure I've sold some nice items for only 1K.

Oh wow, I'm surprised to hear that they sell this quickly. I guess as Anuiran said there's a pretty big market at the low lvl.

Yes but since the price of Subtle Essence is at around 650 and the Fallen Tooth or whatever at 600 to 900. Seems more profitable and less time consuming to Salvage them and sell the materials.

Posted by sedavier at 12/01/2012 09:39 PM

Yes but since the price of Subtle Essence is at around 650 and the Fallen Tooth or whatever at 600 to 900. Seems more profitable and less time consuming to Salvage them and sell the materials.

True. That is probably what people/bots are doing. More power to them. I just don't want to spend the time on salvage and sale when I can just sell it. Additionally, if its a real person finding a real deal, it makes me feel good that I can help alleviate someone's cost to play.

Actually, while lvling my monk to 60, I found that the lower lvl rares are pretty profitable. I've been making about 1m a night from them, and that's only throwing up 3-5 alongside my high end stuff (and that's only random things I find, I actually have found some that are worth upwards of 9m, at least when looking up comparable items). With the sell similar option and a couple tweaks, PCing an item isn't really much of a hassle anymore. Just gotta remember to swap the lvl search from the min side to the max side. I've even sold a couple of blues for about 250k to 50k each. :P

Posted by Khan at 12/01/2012 09:43 PM

Posted by sedavier at 12/01/2012 09:39 PM

Yes but since the price of Subtle Essence is at around 650 and the Fallen Tooth or whatever at 600 to 900. Seems more profitable and less time consuming to Salvage them and sell the materials.

True. That is probably what people/bots are doing. More power to them. I just don't want to spend the time on salvage and sale when I can just sell it. Additionally, if its a real person finding a real deal, it makes me feel good that I can help alleviate someone's cost to play.

IDing takes longer than salvaing and posting massive stacks of essence and yellows. With current market I am currently farming normal mp10 exclusively. Picking up all blues and yellows for salvage.

But shhh. Don't tell anyone!

@Khan

Yes they did sell well.
From my experience of farming Normal VOTA I could sell good low level rares from 25k to 100k a piece. Those rares with high primary/ primary with Vit/ experience / MF or a combination of them sell very well. I vendor the rest.

For someone who is still struggling in Inferno or simply just like the thrill of being able to sell yellows instead of vendoring, they can consider farming low level rares. I did tell his to a friend and she was quite happy with the revenue in millions. She is getting so good that she no longer need to check in AH but just assign 20k to 50k by her judgment. I no longer farm these though. At my current speed and DPS I have higher gold pickup per hour in Inferno.

And a trick is: always put buy out for levelling rares.

I do like re-discovering this market every so often. I'm not powerful enough to blaze through Inferno so it's a fun change of pace to be able to destroy absolutely everything on MP10 in Normal. I sold a nice rare ilvl 17 amulet for 250k on buyout within an hour last night so I probably could've charged even more. Those are the largest sales I've had in weeks. A legendary chest armor went for 50k within 15 minutes so I'm still learning how to price them. I'm probably not earning more than in Inferno where every blue item is worth at least 750 Gold and piles of 2100 Gold just drop from enemies, but it's a bit more satisfying selling gear than picking up gold.

Missing out on Paragon Leveling, though, will keep this to only an occasional distraction.

Posted by ecocd at 12/03/2012 08:03 AM

I do like re-discovering this market every so often. I'm not powerful enough to blaze through Inferno so it's a fun change of pace to be able to destroy absolutely everything on MP10 in Normal. I sold a nice rare ilvl 17 amulet for 250k on buyout within an hour last night so I probably could've charged even more. Those are the largest sales I've had in weeks. A legendary chest armor went for 50k within 15 minutes so I'm still learning how to price them. I'm probably not earning more than in Inferno where every blue item is worth at least 750 Gold and piles of 2100 Gold just drop from enemies, but it's a bit more satisfying selling gear than picking up gold.

Missing out on Paragon Leveling, though, will keep this to only an occasional distraction.

Yes very good Ammy/ Rings fetch very good price. I remember selling a 51 Intel Ring for 500k in minutes (the other similar 51 rings are in millions and I thought they were already very much overpriced). I also sold a good 21 Odyn Son (I mentioned that in my experience in leveling my barb 1-60 in the other post) with socket and +exp and high % special proc for 2 millions!

If I am leveling an alt and I have quite some free cash in tens of millions, a few K probably won't hurt me. How to price them? After compare similar (and reduce some of the stats for search again), I just charge the cheapest (sometimes much cheaper) of all of them. The key is to farm fast sell them fast. If it doesn't sell, relist cheaper / vendor, move on!

this is very interesting... i may have to revisit this... i just collect rares to vendor, occasionally trying to sell the ones with reduced level, but never thought of this "other" market

I too am discovering this "other" market is quite profitable. I kept a lot of decent level 15-25 stuff on alts because I'm a hoarder. I cleaned house and discovered for every 10 rares I can sell in the level 30-50 range, I only sell 1 in the level 60 range. Grinding out paragon levels is really boring too.

Here's my question: What act/monster power in normal is recommended to get rares to drop between level 20-40 while playing a level 60 character? (I also have staff of herding)

The problem with finding/selling level 50 items is that most players bypass these in order to get the bargain basement level 60 items that are flooding the market.

Thoughts?

I would say Act 3 Normal. But it's not only lvl 20-40 things that sell good. I've made over 1m on a lvl 13 rare before. If your grinding low lvl rares to sell on the AH, you could always do Act 2 Normal with MP 10 and look for Leoric's Signets while you're at it.

Does adding a gem in a rare add a small amount of value to it?

Wow, no kidding on the level 13 rare. Can I ask if it was jewelry or a weapon?

Pants actually. Had 16 int, 16 vit, plus some other stuff I don't remember. (Those were the only stats I searched) Sold them for 1.3m I think?

Something to keep in mind for the real low lvl stuff like that, is that decent primaries are what people are looking for. At that point, even the trinity doesn't help as much as an extra 20 in your primary. :P

As for gems, they might, not really sure. I just sell them as I find them. If I'm flipping stuff, I usually pop anything above Flawless Square out of the items to sell separate.

Yes, i used to yield abt 1mil/day selling low lv item.

In my experience, primary stats that increase dmg and extra exp gain would fetch much more

also to mention, weekend is the best time to sell as they move even faster :)

@ctng81

I'll keep the weekend thing in mind, I usually do most of my AH stuff during the week. Probably why my sells aren't that great, lol.

It helps to keep clvl and ilvl in mind. If you're hunting for Signets, as I was for a long time, you get to know the clvl cutoffs for items. At level 15 items can be socketed - this essentially adds 34 base stat points to armor or substantial damage to weapons. Sockets are really important, but not necessary. After that, the cutoffs are clvl 17 and 21. Each one of those has a big step in possible stat mods so when you're searching for comparables for pricing stick with searching up to 17, up to 20 and around 25.

+experience per kill is very popular, don't bother even trying to sell a helmet without a socket or boots without movement speed. You'll find that pick up radius is a nice mod for any low level rare and at the very low levels, jewelry is very rare. You can actually sell blue socketed rings on the AH (for like 300 Gold, but they do actually sell). Good jewelry is very hard to come by before clvl 17.

While there are occasionally those 7 figure sales at the bottom end, the vast majority of your sales are going to be impulse buys so the buyout can't be too high. I found items will sell relatively quickly if you keep the buyout under 250k for very good items and 400k for awesome items. After about 20 Signet runs, you get pretty good at judging what will sell quickly...

One last point is that the normal salvage material are worth a bundle. You make more off of salvaged ilvl 15 items then you do off vendoring some ilvl 60 rares. Even if the rare you just ID'd is trash, it's still probably worth 1400 Gold in mats on the AH. Since the recent botter ban, the prices have inched even higher.

The price has been consistently this high so I'm guessing there's Gold to be made in crafting low level rares right now, too.