Marketplace Tutorial
What is the marketplace?
The marketplace is an in-game place where you can sell items to your friends and buy their items. Items are always grouped by 20s, and you can have only one set of each item for sale at a time.
How do I put items in the marketplace?
Click the market link on the bottom toolbar. Choose the sale tab, and every item you have 20 or more will be available. Click "List for Sale" for the items you want for sale. You can post the notice to your wall for your friends to see, or share the link here on Gaia in one of the marketplace threads.
How do I buy items from the marketplace?
There are two ways to buy from the marketplace. The first is the Buy tab in the market link in game: here you can buy any items your friends have for sale. The other way to buy items is by clicking links, whether put on Facebook by your friends, or listed here in the Gaian forums. NOTE: Clicking a link automatically buys the item; there is no verification screen where you can cancel!
Why should I use the marketplace?
The benefit of the marketplace is that you can get items in bulk quickly, and make a greater profit than selling them from your storage.
The cost to someone buying the items is 130% of the price, but 10% disappears from the game as commission, so you make only 20% more than selling the items from storage. In this cabbage example, that isn't much, but later items make a much greater profit. For example, Sunflower makes a profit of 780 gold!
What should I sell in the marketplace?
Sell items that others need! Many people post early-game items such as Bread and Butter, but this is not a good idea!
-Bread is a dead-end item, it is not used in another factory later in the game, so it's only purpose is to sell.
-Butter is an item you can make early in the game, but you can't use until the Potato Chip Factory at level 32! Not many people are this high level right now, so chances are it might not sell.
For a list of dead-end items, and what things/levels items are used for, see this
spreadsheet.
Dead-end Items A to Z:
Almond Cookie, Apple-Pear, Apple Sauce
Beef Jerky, Bread
Cheese Cracker, Cherry Candy, Cherry Ice Cream, Chocolate Chip Cookie
Fettuccine Alfredo, Fried Chicken, Fried Rice, Fur Gloves
Herbal Medicine
Ketchup, Kimchi
Mayonnaise
Onion Rings, Orange Juice
Peanut Butter, Peanut Cookie, Perfume, Pickles, Popcorn, Potato Chips
Risotto
Sausage Pizza, Soap, Spaghetti, Strawberry Jam, Strawberry Milk, Steak, Sweater
Tofu
Vanilla Ice Cream, Vegetable Juice
Wine
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