The Solution to a Problem: A Guide to Hoarding

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[Jace Quin]

Rhythm_of_Silence

slightly long winded question for you Jace,

I went and took a look recently at the graphs for the Phee-chan and Radio Jack slippers and I'm debating whether or not to keep a few in addition to the hoard of Kitty slips I'm building

So far the graphs for both have been fairly average, but both seem to be moving up in terms of average price lately though.

So my question is this, should i just aim for a pure Kitty slips hoard or maybe add some radio jacks and phees?

Are you looking for hoards to hold onto for several years?

[Rhythm_of_Silence]

Jace Quin

Rhythm_of_Silence

slightly long winded question for you Jace,

I went and took a look recently at the graphs for the Phee-chan and Radio Jack slippers and I'm debating whether or not to keep a few in addition to the hoard of Kitty slips I'm building

So far the graphs for both have been fairly average, but both seem to be moving up in terms of average price lately though.

So my question is this, should i just aim for a pure Kitty slips hoard or maybe add some radio jacks and phees?

Are you looking for hoards to hold onto for several years?

odds are im going to hold onto the kitty hoard for a while minimum of several months
not too sure about the radio jacks or phees

[Jace Quin]

Rhythm_of_Silence

Jace Quin

Rhythm_of_Silence

slightly long winded question for you Jace,

I went and took a look recently at the graphs for the Phee-chan and Radio Jack slippers and I'm debating whether or not to keep a few in addition to the hoard of Kitty slips I'm building

So far the graphs for both have been fairly average, but both seem to be moving up in terms of average price lately though.

So my question is this, should i just aim for a pure Kitty slips hoard or maybe add some radio jacks and phees?

Are you looking for hoards to hold onto for several years?

odds are im going to hold onto the kitty hoard for a while minimum of several months
not too sure about the radio jacks or phees

If you're looking to profit significantly in a matter of months none of those items are going to get you there. I do not recommend hoarding them for profit any time in the near future.

[OLHearts]

o_O They created a Winged item while I was away and it's going up in price again? There isn't an equip option showing up in the Market though? :O

[Jace Quin]

Orlando1210

o_O They created a Winged item while I was away and it's going up in price again? There isn't an equip option showing up in the Market though? :O

I wouldn't be too concerned about the price fluxtuations. The first Astra Metamorphosis was out for almost four months. It seems reasonable to expect that this one might be out for that long. But as Gaia has repeatedly demonstrated with CS items- they could decide to pull it at any time or never. If you want to start buying them slowly at reasonable prices I think that would be a reasonable course of action.

There isn't an equip option because Astra Metamorphosis and Astra Metamorphosis Deux are special RIGs that spit out only animated wings from their specific set (AM spits out only AM wings and AMD spit out only AMD wings). If you want to look at the wings themselves search for 'astra wings' in the MP. Since there are numbers up tp 54 presumably 1-27 are in the first set and 28-54 are in set two.

[OLHearts]

Jace Quin

I wouldn't be too concerned about the price fluxtuations. The first Astra Metamorphosis was out for almost four months. It seems reasonable to expect that this one might be out for that long. But as Gaia has repeatedly demonstrated with CS items- they could decide to pull it at any time or never. If you want to start buying them slowly at reasonable prices I think that would be a reasonable course of action.

There isn't an equip option because Astra Metamorphosis and Astra Metamorphosis Deux are special RIGs that spit out only animated wings from their specific set (AM spits out only AM wings and AMD spit out only AMD wings). If you want to look at the wings themselves search for 'astra wings' in the MP. Since there are numbers up tp 54 presumably 1-27 are in the first set and 28-54 are in set two.

I just remembered the existence of that RIG xD Thanks for the explanation! I'm kind of broke now though. Trying to sell the Super Prizes. Do you usually sell RIGs in MP or in the Exchange?

[Jace Quin]

Orlando1210

Jace Quin

I wouldn't be too concerned about the price fluxtuations. The first Astra Metamorphosis was out for almost four months. It seems reasonable to expect that this one might be out for that long. But as Gaia has repeatedly demonstrated with CS items- they could decide to pull it at any time or never. If you want to start buying them slowly at reasonable prices I think that would be a reasonable course of action.

There isn't an equip option because Astra Metamorphosis and Astra Metamorphosis Deux are special RIGs that spit out only animated wings from their specific set (AM spits out only AM wings and AMD spit out only AMD wings). If you want to look at the wings themselves search for 'astra wings' in the MP. Since there are numbers up tp 54 presumably 1-27 are in the first set and 28-54 are in set two.

I just remembered the existence of that RIG xD Thanks for the explanation! I'm kind of broke now though. Trying to sell the Super Prizes. Do you usually sell RIGs in MP or in the Exchange?

I usually sell them in the MP. I will occasionally sell them in the Exchange but I'm much more likely to try to trade for other items rather than sell if I'm using the Exchange.

[OLHearts]

Thanks for the response. And here's another question sweatdrop

Do you know how these items are being given exactly? surprised They seem to pop out of nowhere sometimes and things like the Opulent Scarf Sash are rather rare (though that may simply be because of how good looking the item is)...

[Jace Quin]

Orlando1210

Thanks for the response. And here's another question sweatdrop

Do you know how these items are being given exactly? surprised They seem to pop out of nowhere sometimes and things like the Opulent Scarf Sash are rather rare (though that may simply be because of how good looking the item is)...

Those are all cash-related bonuses. Some of them are for signing up for auto-cash (basically authorizing Gaia to charge you monthly for a certain amount of GCash and crediting that GCash automatically to your account) and the variety of auto-cash rewards is either because they are random or different rewards have been given for signing up at different times. Some of them are sponsored offers which means that you got that item plus some 'free' cash if you watched a video for a sponsor or completed a survey or something like that. Some of them are offer rewards which means that if you did something like sign up for Netflix through Gaia then you get not only some bonus GCash but also a item for doing so. And lastly the ones that just say 'cash rewards' come from (I believe) buying the cash cards but they may be from buying GCash in general.

[OLHearts]

Okay, thank you very much ^w^

[Jace Quin]

Orlando1210

Okay, thank you very much ^w^

You're welcome. ^.^

[K76]

Hey Jace I was wondering if you had any insight on riding the ups and downs on trends that look pretty established. For example with a graph like this:



With my very limited experience what that says to me is that this item has a very good chance of being sold at around 400k within a month and picking them up at 300k is roughly speaking pretty safe. Any thoughts?

[Jace Quin]

K76

Hey Jace I was wondering if you had any insight on riding the ups and downs on trends that look pretty established. For example with a graph like this:



With my very limited experience what that says to me is that this item has a very good chance of being sold at around 400k within a month and picking them up at 300k is roughly speaking pretty safe. Any thoughts?

What is the item?

[K76]

Jace Quin

K76

Hey Jace I was wondering if you had any insight on riding the ups and downs on trends that look pretty established. For example with a graph like this:



With my very limited experience what that says to me is that this item has a very good chance of being sold at around 400k within a month and picking them up at 300k is roughly speaking pretty safe. Any thoughts?

What is the item?

Hmm the item itself is Bunny Flop: http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/52299/ but if it depends on the item itself rather than just marketplace data, how so? Is it just watching out that it's not evolving or likely to be re-released?

[Jace Quin]

K76

Jace Quin

K76

Hey Jace I was wondering if you had any insight on riding the ups and downs on trends that look pretty established. For example with a graph like this:



With my very limited experience what that says to me is that this item has a very good chance of being sold at around 400k within a month and picking them up at 300k is roughly speaking pretty safe. Any thoughts?

What is the item?

Hmm the item itself is Bunny Flop: http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/52299/ but if it depends on the item itself rather than just marketplace data, how so? Is it just watching out that it's not evolving or likely to be re-released?

I wouldn't recommend it.

It sells very few units a day even at Easter when the demand should be the highest. And even though it looks like it has an 'established' trend Gaia could change that at any moment. Bunny Flop was released in a Easter Bundle and as a regular Cash Shop item it could be put back into the Cash Shop or re-released in a RIG at any time. It would be highly risky and potentially not as profitable as another hoard you could put your gold into instead.

Unless you have a lot of gold it's much safer to stick to investing in items which either already have a limited/dwindling supply or items which soon will have a limited/dwindling supply with no chance of being re-released (the notable exception being RIGs as there is a high probability of their being re-released in Super Prize 2k12 but historically this has not had a hugely detrimental impact on the hoardability of RIGs).