So you’re starting to learn the knack of searching, but are getting kind of aggravated at the sheer amount of items in the game? Do you really have to learn all of them to have a leg up? Of course not. Here’s what I do. By now I know by heart most all of the [...]

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My first mmo was Everquest, not too long after it went live, back in July ‘99. Its main currency was platinum pieces. Everquest was the campathon game extraordinaire. You and a group of 5 others plunked yourselves in one spot, and “camped” the respawning creatures there until either a) you got enough experience to level, [...]

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Interesting experience tonight at the ah. One of the… no, *the* main gold farmer/rip off auctioneer was being his usual self in the trade channel… that is, smarmy, wise-cracking, getting attacked by just about everyone because of his insane prices, the usual guy popping in “defending” the auctioneer to gain a few brownie points. It [...]

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My guild’s name was the Fair Merchant Consortium. I had grand visions of a group of auctioneers on the server all working together in a common bank, where people would know our name, trust our transactions that were fair, and provide a wide range of services. Working at a company and with a wife and [...]

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So how’d you do? If you haven’t yet read my last post, or you’re pretty new to auctioneering, please see: Auctioneering 101: Observe before reading this.
Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean you should know the stuff I’m going to teach. It takes practice, some trial and error, and some mistakes. I have to say though, [...]

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Hello there and thank you for taking the time to read this. If you’re at all interested in making money within a virtual or online game (or even applying some of the theories to real life), I can almost guarantee you’ll get at least a little something out of this site.
Apart from my 8-5 day [...]

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