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If you have extra Mythic Health potions I will buy them from you for 50 gold each which is 5,000 for a full stack of 100.
If you need Mythic Health potions I will sell them to you for 100 gold each which is 10,000 for a full stack of 100. Why should you deal with me? •Potions can't be sold in the AH. •Vendoring potions gives you only 24 gold per potion. I will buy yours for double that. •Buying potions from a vendor costs over 600 gold each. I will sell them to you for 1/6 of that. Why would I turn myself into a potion vendor? I sold 400 potions to a friend of mine last night and he was very happy to get so many cheap potions. I am interested to see if I can turn this into a small side business that nets me a small but steady Return on Investment. The main reason I am doing this is to buy and sell potions to people at better prices than the in-game vendor. I am not trying to make tons of money on this. |
[US] I want to be your one stop mythic potion shop!
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I got a few buyers and one seller so far from my thread in the official forums!
This might actaully become a thing for me. |
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@mentok1982
I can tell you that you are going at the right direction. There is definitely a market for this. For me, I don't pick up potions since it only slows down my farming speed/ pace. I will just buy from the vendor if I ever need them again. For you, Your suppliers: 1. Players who pick up potions from the ground Your buyers: 1. Players like me who does not pick up potions from the ground, and don't mind giving you some business by buying some cheap potions in advance 2. Players who are lowly geared and who die a lot even with potions Speaking of which, I would like to order 100 potions for 10k please :P |
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I will be in game at around 6:40PM tonight. I thank you for only asking for a single stack of 100.
Everyone starts by asking me for 5 stacks and I have to talk them down to 2 or 3 so I can have enough to sell some to everyone else. |
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I sold a few stacks to mentok last night, and would encourage anyone else who has some extra to do so as well.
It helps the quality of life for under geared chars, and the guy isn't even trying to make a profit. |
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I really hope Blizzard adds friends list notes soon so that I can tell who I should be selling to and who I can buy from. I could even edit the note so I could see the last time I sold to each person. |
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not sure if they fixed this, but the cauldron in act1, someone's hut (forgot her name) always drops a potion... you can farm these as well... hopefully i don't screw up your market
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I think just a "clan" channel would be nice, then d3rmt users could have a chat, rather than me having to troll in trade chat all the time.
Maybe we should just hang out in wizard chat or something that's always empty? |
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LOL at this. Farming pots worth 100 gold each.... |
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Take your time. I am not in a hurry :P In a few patches before, there was a vendor in Act 1 (above Wotham) who sold potions at 50% discount, and there is even a youtube showing you how to buy cheap potions from him. You are selling even cheaper than the vendor, so you definitely got a market. I encourage everyone who has excess potions to pass to this guy. He is taking the trouble to do a good distributing service. |
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mentok1982, how many stacks do you have? I'd like to buy 20 stacks for 200000. lmk!
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hey sometimes you just need pots, and if you're like me, stingy as hell |
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Moreover, her potion is abit special. She brews love potions. |
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tru dat!!!!
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@mentok1982: This is a pretty cool service you're setting up, & I imagine I will be hitting you up in game some time in the near future for some potions! :-) Though with that being said, I imagine it's going to be easier to find customers who want to buy from you as opposed to sell to you...? Cause it seems like most players will either (1) keep the potions they pick up for themselves to use, like myself; (2) not bother to even pick them up at all, such as @douvinsky; or (3) sell them straight to the vendor, rather than accumulating stacks & stacks of them. I mean, stash & inventory slots are very precious, so using up two slots for a return of a maximum of 10,000 gold seems like it would hardly be worthwhile in the long run for most players...? Dunno, just my two cents. Though I do wish you luck in this endeavor, as I do hope to buy potions from you someday..! :-)
Yah, I'd heard about this guy too, though never used him. Instead, I use the one in Act 2 in the Dalghur Oasis, since I'm always there to farm for the Infernal Machine key anyway. He doesn't always appear, but when he does, it's 50% off--so I'll usually just fill up my one potion slot to around 95 (leave a little bit of room in case I immediately pick up a couple of potions off of dead demon corpses..)
Yes, there is a free potion at that one spot...however, the time it takes to exit the game & resume it in order to re-farm that one potion usually isn't worth it. After all, time = money (or in this case, virtual gold), right? :-) |
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@eastdragon42
I believe there are some players who does not (or could not) focus on farming efficiency vs time, who prefer to hack every monsters and pick up every gold piles and potions :P |
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Hahaha, yeah...that would probably be me... :-0 I am by far one of the most inefficient farmers out there. I have gotten better though. At the start, I would literally pick up *everything*, including all the normal & broken white weapons. Since then, at least I now ignore those. :-) But I do still pick up all the blue magic items, & every potion as well.... |
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I sold out of potions again last night! I did not receive any potions last night but I got a friend request this morning from a person who wants to sell me some potions. I am going to accept it tonight so that I can still see his message about wanting to sell. Otherwise I won't remember which new friend has potions for me. @douvinsky I don't think I sold to you last night. Send me a message tonight when you see me come online please. |
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I pick up everything that is not a white item while I farm XP in MP0. I can actually keep my Archon going if I am quick about it. That is how I built up my initial stock of potions (like 1,400). About blue items: I check the price of Equisite Essences before I get in the game. Last night they were selling for over 900 gold. So I broke down any level 61-63 blues into essences if their vendor worth was 700 or less. Then at the end of the night I sell all my essences. They sell really fast! There is more profit there than you think, because a lot of blues I break down have vendor prices of less than 200 to 400 gold. |
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I made no sales last night. :(
That is because I had no potions to sell. I have a new friend request from another seller that I will accept this evening. There are two other sellers that I am aware of, but for various reasons I have been unable to buy anything from them so far. |
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@mentok1982
My suggestion to you is that you could start by advertising to BUY potions only. Once you build up enough stocks, advertising to sell, in addition to buy. |
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Even if I did that, I still have several people that know I sell potions. I did manage to sell some potions last night! I bought four stacks and then I sold 5 stacks (one of those was a stack I gathered myself). |
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Since your supply is less than demand you should raise prices.
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I didn't play at all on Saturday and Sunday but I think I will play tonight.
I bought a good amount of potions on Friday night and I still have most of them. If you need some, send me a message if you see me online. |
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I sold a good amount of potions last night and I have 2 stacks left right now.
I can't wait to get home and experience all the patch changes. |
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