Learn How To Vend

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Chapter Two: I has a shop, but I don't know what I can sell!

If you're reading this, you probably have a merchant and are looking to offload some items for quick cash. That's great. I bet you just can't wait to plonk yourself down in Prontera square and throw up a shop called "CHEEP +7 WEPZ LOL HAX" and charge a billion zennies for something that's worth ten, right next to ten other people charging similar prices for equally-random garbage.

I sympathize with your parents right about now.

Before you start selling things, consider what you want to sell and what you CAN sell. If this is at all a long-term prospect (and assuming you're reading this guide it is), you're going to want some kind of reason for people to keep coming back to check out your business, especially during those down periods when you don't have anything special to sell.

So what do you want to sell? Well, ideally you want to sell anything that makes you money, and lots of it.

What can you sell? Pretty much everything.

Protip: One of the fastest ways to make a bit of cash is selling fwings and bwings. They sell by the thousands and you can realistically OC them and sell them back for virtually full NPC rates. Seriously, the only thing you need is time to keep setting up a shop and there's a huge gap in the market for someone to do it. The profitability then comes down to location (discussed in the next chapter) and how much time you have to put into the shop.

Anything you get from anything has the potential to sell. The things you need to determine are who wants it, when do they want it, and how badly do they want it? For example: lemons are pretty useless for the most part and grinding on anubis will probably net you a few dozen of them while you cut through the minorous chaff. You could sell them, or you could hold on to them in the event that somebody makes a custom quest that requires lemons. All in, I cleared more than ten million zeny during the last birthday quest selling junk from my Kafra that wouldn't have brought in 500k if I'd just OCd it. The lesson from this is that everything has a value to someone but that value fluctuates with time. Be ready for when it goes up and don't get discouraged if that value never goes up, unless you paid cash money for that item in speculation. In that case, learn from your mistake.

As another example, consider the needs of different classes. Stems, which you'll be getting by the truckload given how much I hear people like Moscovia, are invaluable to creators. Additionally poison spores and karvo to sins. Maybe you have a creator and like shrooming? Sell off the karvo. Or take all those red bloods and make fire arrows.

So if everything sells, why not sell everything? Well it's all well and good to do that, but you want people to have a reason to check your shops beyond "I'm going shopping". In that case, it helps to give them a reason such as having a useful item that they always need, so they will be checking it even when they're not specifically shopping. If you have things people need, they'll be stopping by more often.