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 Titan.Cripnicc
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By Titan.Cripnicc 2010-05-16 09:05:53
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why is it that when u go to the AH there are always items like bat wings, flint stones, rock salt, insect wings, lizard tails, ect, even a ton of crystals up for sale. I my self and many other ppl i talk to always npc these items. personaly i wont save a stack of any thing to sell on ah unless it sells for over like 10k. So who are these ppl who put these items up on the AH?

(and Thank You for who ever does)
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By Unicorn.Ninetales 2010-05-16 09:07:41
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People who want more than the NPC price? Seriously, all that stuff is necessary for crafting, so people will pay for it. Getting a stack of lizard tails is incredibly quick (especially in Crawler's Nest) so the money is more "there" than you might think. But when I'm skilling in Aht Urhgan Whitegate and the AH is right next to the guild, I'm more likely to just buy stuff from there instead of going out to farm and then coming back.
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By Asura.Poupee 2010-05-16 09:10:09
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I npc items that are less then 30k on ah. for fees and time
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By Phoenix.Kojo 2010-05-16 09:10:42
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I'll sell a completed stack of just about anything over 1k/stack, but only if I have room. I'm not holding a 20k Astaroth Cane for 12 hours while a 1.5k stack of lightning crystals or some ***sells.
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By Asura.Raudy 2010-05-16 09:11:41
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i send all those partial stacks of crystals, bonechips, beehive chips etc to my mule to collect until it makes a stack. then after a week of 500-4000 sales of various "vendor trash". my mule can send out 25-35k back to my main.
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By Gilgamesh.Shayala 2010-05-16 09:14:10
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I AH things like crystals, lizard tails etc. on my mules.

The decent stuff is sold on AH by my main or alts.
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2010-05-16 09:15:44
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I toss crystals/random crap but NPC shitty augmented items
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By Bahamut.Leonelf 2010-05-16 09:20:26
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It's why some people have relics and most don't lol
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By Bahamut.Satanas 2010-05-16 09:21:05
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Anything below 10kish~ in the AH is going to be npc'd.
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By Asura.Artemyse 2010-05-16 09:49:45
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I remember back when I started playing I used to do that, nowadays I just NPC, or if I have a stack I'll throw it up if there's room on my AH.
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By Asura.Elvaton 2010-05-16 09:53:11
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i npcs all my crystals and junk if its worth 1k~ i'll AH it
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By Fenrir.Vazerus 2010-05-16 10:07:09
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I NPC if I'll make more money that way, or if I get like 30 stacks of Wind Crystals from Colibri >.>
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By Pandemonium.Rathz 2010-05-16 10:28:42
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I would AH my stacks of crystals and such, but the sales tax in both Jeuno and WG is just to high for my stingy ***, so I NPC it in WG
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By Valefor.Grozny 2010-05-16 10:43:45
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Pandemonium.Rathz said:
I would AH my stacks of crystals and such, but the sales tax in both Jeuno and WG is just to high for my stingy ***, so I NPC it in WG

Not sure about Jeuno, but The safehold tax is about 50% less than WG.
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By Quetzalcoatl.Timwakefield 2010-05-16 10:46:43
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Bahamut.Leonelf said:
It's why some people have relics and most don't lol

Yeah, if I could go back in time and un-NPC all those Wind Crystals and Treant Bulbs, I could definitely afford a relic. That, or I'd have an extra like 100k.
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By Sylph.Kimble 2010-05-16 10:51:36
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Asura.Poupee said:
I npc items that are less then 30k on ah. for fees and time


So, if something sells for 20-25k on AH and NPCs for like, 700 gil, you just NPC it?
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By Phoenix.Smileybone 2010-05-16 11:15:19
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In the same light though sometimes stuff goes for same or more than AH price. Common high tier spells are a good example. Pro IV vendor price = 4.5k, AH price might be like 5k.
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By Asura.Calatilla 2010-05-16 11:21:31
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Generally i`ll npc things that sell for less than 1k on the AH because of the fee`s, crystals and bird fodder i just npc en-mass
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By Unicorn.Dulcinea 2010-05-16 11:58:34
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I don't NPC many items.

I do NPC things like Bird Blood and surplus crafted items that I won't use and which aren't very valuable.

I also NPC scroll drops, unless there are none up, in which case I put one or two up so that someone who needs them doesn't have to pay the crazy-high prices that they can cost from NPCs. (40k+ for Thunder III from the NPC!)

Oh, and I always NPC Warding Oil (can't AH it anyway), Leech Saliva, most of the crappy gear drops from gobbies (if I don't drop them straight-off), and a few other little other things that I don't remember right now.

Crystals and synthing materials I can, or will later be able to, use are sent to mules, most of which have decently increased storage, safe, and inventory space (furniture for max storage, and some Gobbie Bag quests, but no Lockers).

On these mules, I AH stacks of Treant Bulbs, most Feathers (I drop or NPC Yagudo Feathers), and various other items that sell on the various AHs reasonably often for 1k or above.
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By Phoenix.Dragonwarrior 2010-05-16 12:35:34
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It feels wrong to NPC an item for me sometimes.
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By Bismarck.Jimothy 2010-05-16 12:50:11
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Jeuno AH is same as Tav, cheaper than Aht urghan and Al Zahbi.

I NPC a lot of things, usually stuff that I have less than 10 of that I know I'll never finish the stack of and never use myself. I have a lot of crafting mules though so I tend to be a packrat and eventually I get fed up and NPC all my junk to make space quick.
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By Sylph.Kozuki 2010-05-16 13:11:49
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I only NPC things that NPC for more than they sell for on the AH or about the same when you count auction fee's.
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By Ramuh.Dasva 2010-05-16 13:12:14
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Pretty much anytime the difference between npc and ah price is less than 1k difference after fees for cheaper stuff. A little higher on the few things that npc for decent amounts. This would be per item or per stack depending on what it is and how it actually sells. And of course anything that npcs for more or just doesn't sell hardly at all.
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2010-05-16 13:18:10
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Unless it brings in about 1k on AH, I just NPC it.. I'll only even sell something that goes for 1k if it sells relatively fast (12-24 hours).
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By Kujata.Daus 2010-05-16 13:19:27
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I npc stuff if it sells less than 1k or if it npcs for about as much as it costs on the AH.

I npc alot of crystals, colibri feathers/beaks, bat wings, alot of stuff I get from campaign..
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By Titan.Xantavia 2010-05-16 15:57:02
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I don't get NPCing bat wings. Whenever I get these, I hold them til the next time I head out to SanDoria. But yeah, if something sells for less than 1k, I'll normally just dump at an NPC. Except for bone chips. those I quickly make into bone hairpins, then NPC those instead.
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By Alexander.Lacas 2010-05-16 16:02:20
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Depends with me, I NPC stuff which I won't be expecting a return on worth the AH space used up. Which in my case is often alot.
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By Asura.Ludoggy 2010-05-16 16:17:03
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Everytime I merit/exp, go to sky, farm etc.
No way I'm holding on to all those crystals, feathers and garbage.
Asura.Poupee said:
I npc items that are less then 30k on ah. for fees and time
and you wonder why you never have any gil?
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By Fenrir.Nightfyre 2010-05-16 16:42:20
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The only time I NPC something is if it's an incomplete stack of something cheap ( < 1k/stack) that I won't get a full stack of within the next couple of days, or if the NPC and AH prices are very close.
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