It amazes me how much people collect for the sake of just having stupid shit. No, No, it's great to show off your guild bank full of enchanting mats...that you will never use. I see all the time other players showing off their stockpiles but yet they don't have anywhere near the liquid gold they should for maintaining a stockpile of such size.
I guess there is some glory behind just having 9000 inks in your bank. I've seen on other websites players showing off screenshots of their massive stockpiles. Who gives a shit? Seriously. Talk about the mechanics behind gold making not your damn e-peen. Especially for those that claim to be serious at making gold.
The issue is that you end up buying more than what you would ever need to meet a certain demand and normally for some markets you would never even have the opportunity to buy that much in the first place due to scarcity in the market place, especially at the price threshold you are trying to meet. The other issue is that, depending on the amount of time that you have to unload these mats, is if too much time occurs after your initial purchase then markets could crash or slowly decrease in value which in turn devalues your entire assets. If this happens are you even making a profit? You might even be lucky to just break even.
Depending on the market you can have some really high demand periods where it just doesn't seem like you have enough materials ever to meet that demand. Which is great! You buy up as much as you possibly can to create a good stockpile to meet it. But guess what? It isn't going to last forever. There will be a downturn in the market. Think of this. You end up buying a massive stockpile of epic uncut gems, let's say you invest 40 to 60 grand in gems at 80 to 90 gold per gem. Everything is going great but you begin getting through half of that investment and then markets fall and now there is a chance you could be taking a loss on those same investments. This is just a strategy that I would like to put in the mind of everyone. There is too much advice out there that just pounds your brain saying buy as much as possible. I'm all about having large stockpiles but there should be a limit to this business decision.
After a while you should have a pretty good feel for your realm's economics but even having a grasp on that you can see some bizarre swings in markets.
Questions for Comments
How large of a stockpile do you maintain? Do you have a limit? Have you ever had a bad buying experience with market crash?
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