Kev's 1 Meso FM Challenge

Day 7: Momentum

Here's what sold from yesterday:

Finally a yellow umbrella sold! Sold for 200k so that's a 70k profit. Not the gold mine I thought they were, I guess the meta has changed since kiwiz journal. These will haunt me forever.
But most importantly, almost 2m in 1 day! Big.

I'm getting less and less play time so lately I've just been owling a few things and that's it. But it's still working out as evident by the sales.

Today a journal reader sent me an owl while they were pricing their gach pulls and I debated if I should be allowed to buy it. I know kiwiz allowed it in their journal but I did have the rule about no donations/handouts. I already bought the scroll but going forward I probably won't take freebies like this.

It was an earring INT 10% for 1m which is a pretty crazy deal...


Made a few purchases from my own owls, pretty good profit margins on these, ~100k each.
- OA LUK 60%: 88,888
- OA LUK 60%: 49,999
- OA DEX 60%: 130,000
- Claw ATT 60%: 166,666
- Wand for Magic ATT 10% x 2: 199,999 ea

Totaling up all my scrolls and meso, I think we're close to 5m... Pretty insane for starting with 1 meso!

I'll also work on fixing up my spreadsheet to make it more detailed on purchases/sales, coming soon!

 

Day 8: (In)consistency

We sold out almost our entire store, netting us almost 5m in pure meso. I'm surprised how fast this is building up!


Unfortunately after checking my shop, I got distracted with content and forgot to reset my 1-1 shop... I swear I can never keep 1-1 spots for longer than a few days. Fortunately someone saw that my shop wasn't there anymore and offered me a spot in 1-2 top left, which I gladly accepted. Better than nothing!



I then did the usual round of owls for overall, claw and wand scrolls. Picked up a lot of OA DEX this time around, 7 to be exact. I also started picking up Earring LUK 10%s for below 100k. I do want to start looking into scrolling options and and LUK earrings may be one of them since scrolls are pretty cheap! But I'll also see if I can just sell them for more than 100k though.

Here's a highlight deal I found: OA STR 60% for 20k! Easy 300k profit


Nothing too eventful for now, going to start slowly dropping the price on the pirate pants. I'd really like that sold so I can start scrolling. Scroll merching is getting a bit boring

 

Day 9: Moving In Silence

Sorry about the long break y'all, had some IRL stuff going on. It's been a week since our last post but the merching hasn't completely stopped since then, we're still doing a little owling daily.

A few scrolls have been treating me rather well, specifically OA Dex 60s and Claw 60s. Always a ton of them for 200k or less and I'm able to sell them easily for 250k. I fall back to these when I'm feeling lazy.

I'm getting bored of scroll merching so I'm also looking into equip flipping at the moment. There's a few good candidates that I can think of: Red Marker, YWG, Fallen Leaf Earrings, Red Katina, Red Belly Duke, Red Pirate Pants, Elemental Wands, etc. I see a lot of potential in items like these being mispriced, and we've already gotten a few

Here's what we've recently done so far:
- Flipped 2 2 TMA Fallen Leaf Earrings for 2m ea, at a purchase of 1.3/1.4m
- Purchased 2 8/4/1 Red Belly Dukes for 1.5m/2m, hoping to flip them easily for 3m

I think I'm actually around the 15m meso mark if I sell most of my things(minus the pants). Here's the current inventory:

And here's the spreadsheet for those interested. I'll be back to posting more often

 

Day 10: Research

As we make our way into the 15-20m meso range, I'm going to cut back on the mass scroll merching for a few reasons:

1. Using too many of our limited owls
   • One issue with sweeping scrolls is that you often need to do it multiple times throughout the day to accumulate enough of an inventory that allows buyers to get all their scrolls in one place (i.e. intervals of 10 for OA scrolls, 10%'s, etc) which incentives buyers to choose your higher price point. If I'm doing this for 3-4 scrolls at any given time, that blows past my daily owl limit.
2. Leaves me with too little meso on hand
   • I don't want this entire journal to just be scroll merching. I want to start scrolling things as this is uncharted territory even for me. It'd be fun to learn scrolling strategies and just gamba in general

I have to be intentional about which scrolls I'm owling for. This makes me think about several factors:

1. End-game players & WS projects
   • End game players are more likely to pay higher prices for bulk to save time? I'm personally going through a WS10 NT Dagger and I know some others are actively doing daggers as well.
   • Getting a good read on the end game player base could be an interesting strategy. Examples: I remember clam buying red arcina's in bulk for TL crafting, akash buying perf d khanjars, various players working on red katinas, etc...
2. Class reworks
   • If I stock up on scrolls pertaining to each class getting reworked, that could be a decent strategy. I feel like Hero is the next one to be implemented.
3. Attainability/sustainability via mob/gacha
   • If a scroll has a large drop table, there's going to be enough supply and undercutters to keep up with the mass merching method. I think this is one reason why I've been having so much success with the OA DEX 60s. More owl listings = more incentive to choose 1 seller to get all your scrolls from. I sold out the 30 OA DEXs super quickly, and they were all bought by 3 different players, 10 scrolls each.
4. New players
   • Unfortunately, this challenge will have to take advantage of newer players that may not be as experienced in the market. While there are extreme methods such as offering low prices to new players pulling CS/WS, small misprices are fair game imo. Also niche things like OA INT 10% being a KPQ reward is something I can take advantage of.
5. Known scrollers
   • Players like Bear1 and imakeussmile are known for scrolling a ton of high value items. If I'm able to target the scrolls they need, that could potentially help with fast turnaround times on my part.

With all that out of the way, here's a few updates:


Was able to sell the Red Belly Dukes super quick for 3m, could've probably gotten 4m but I wanted the fast turnaround. You can also see what I was talking about earlier with the OA DEXs being bought in 10s, I see this very consistently.


I also FINALLY sold the 11/4 Red Pirate Pants for 4m. Held onto that for way too long. I'm surprised it didn't get picked up instantly. I started at 10m and dropped it by 1m every few days.

A few finds while surfing FM for a little bit:

2 Avoid Rat Mouth for 650k! I think I can get 1.5-2m for this, pretty good margins!


2 INT Esther Shield for 125k, maybe 500k-1m for this? Decent.

Speaking of the class rework thoughts, I found someone selling 92 Spear ATT 60%s for 77k each. From my memory of browsing FM, I knew these could go for at least 100k each easily. I took a gamble and used all the meso I had to buy 85 out of the 92 scrolls. I plan to list them for 125k each. Big gamble but I think it'll pay off.



EDIT: after posting this journal and checking my shop, I already sold 15 of them to 1 person! DK rework coming in clutch? maybe more attractive for newer players to start with now.
EDIT 2: and another 7 to another player... ok I'll stop updating this and wait till tomorrow

I was also curious about how much I've made from the OA DEX 60 method since I keep raving on about it.


Oh I guess I should put a running meso count too...
Current Meso: 3,962,119

Thanks for reading, it's been a fun 10 days

 

Day 11: Our First Gamble


Sold a ton of items overnight, giving us ~23m to work with for the day. The 85 spear att 60s turned out to be a big success as I sold all of them to what seemed like another bulk buyer! Made a total of 3.7m from that investment

I went surfing and was picking up a few scrolls here and there until I saw this:

2 +1 Work Gloves for 10m each! Calculating production cost, 1 GFMA 10% ranges from 1.5-2m, these should cost 15-20m to make. Surely this is my sign to scroll...

After a bit of hesitation, I pulled the trigger along with 4 GFMA 60s for a total of 16.8m! I figured that I'd only lose money if I landed 1 out of 4. 2 out of 4 would break even and and 3 or 4 would give me a nice profit.

Spoiler: Result:

Hoping to get 30m out of this, this may be our biggest profit yet

I really wanted to pick up the 2nd pair of gloves but I didn't have the capital for it. I circled back some time later to check if it had sold and the seller had added 2 more +1 gloves but raised the price to 12m each! Still a good deal honestly...

Another circle back found them sold out.


With most of my meso tied up in the glove, we're back to waiting for things to sell

 

Thank you! Yea it'll be interesting to see what still works and what doesn't from your journal. I did read it while it was ongoing but the broken images make it hard to read back on now

I still haven't had a crazy find myself, always just seeing them sold out. Maybe I should post the ones I missed.

I like ch 1 ludi and perion rooms too, a lot of newer players think ch 1 spots are good but can only get a spot at the higher numbers.

 

Day 12: Biding Time

Hello I'm back after 2 weeks... Small hiatus due to less playtime/motivation and just waiting for things to sell, mainly that 12 TMA work glove I scrolled in my last entry.


Picked up this +2 INT 4 Slot Raggedy Cape for 200k! The clean cape is ~2m and 60s/70s are 500k and 1.5m respectively, it's a steal any way you look at it! A nice scroll candidate

Unfortunately, kev1 is still a level 16 swordsman and cannot equip it. We'll have to spend some meso to get Legendary Spirit, we'll eventually need to get it anyway.

1.265m spent, a worthy investment.

Picked up 4 cape INT 60s for 400k each, it's slammin' time

Spoiler: Results

3/4 60s passed! 1.8m total cost for the cape, 3m if we count Legendary Spirit.
I initially listed it for 10m but kept lowering until it sold at 5m eventually.

Managed to finally sell the 12 TMA Work Gloves for 30m after almost 2 weeks... that gives us a ~12m profit on a single item, our highest so far! Not bad for our first self-scrolled item!
I wanted to get 40-50m initially but it took quite a while even with multiple smegas. I really thought it would have sold faster and at a higher price considering that low TMA gloves aren't too common and 12 is a good breakpoint before you get to mid/end-game 20+ TMA gloves.

In a previous journal entry, I had mentioned a strategy of scrolling 1/4 pirate pants with 10%s as a cost effective way of scrolling the first slot of thief bottoms. Usually costing ~300k each and 10%s for less than 100k, that comes out to ~3m to get the equivalent of a perf bottom plus a 70. I was able to collect 5 in total, time to see if I get lucky.

Spoiler: Results

I don't know what I expected to be honest... Goodbye 1.5m

I bought these +1 4 slot Weighted Earrings for 100k during the hiatus:

I decided to do 70s, hoping for a +5 15 TMA earring.

Spoiler: Results

sadge, my first boom.

I don't have a screenshot but I picked up a perf 55 attack Korean Fan in the same time period I got the earrings. I decided to do 70s as well

Spoiler: Results

gg first slot boom

I did a few more surfs and found another 55 Korean Fan for 500k and was tempted to try again. I owled to see if there were more perfs so I could do a bigger scroll session and picked up 3 in total, each for ~500k. I just decided to slam all 60s since there were no 70s on the market.

Spoiler: Results

???
18/21 60s landed, giving us 3 +6 67 ATT Korean Fans...
Total cost was 2,223,828 meso or an average of 741,276 meso each.
I was expecting nothing but this is something! I owled again and didn't see any high scrolled fans and the other perf fans were going for over 1.5m... I can definitely make back that 2.2m in cost. I'll start these at 10m each and slowly lower them... No clue what these are worth to be honest. Any P/Cers in the chat?

Clean 2/4 red pirate pants for 300k easy 1.5m profit


Here's where we're currently at:

Mesos:
45,806,066
Unsold Assets:
- Clean 2 Avoid Rat Mouth
- Clean 2/6 Red Pirate Top
- Clean 2/4 Red Pirate Pants
- Clean 2/4 Dark Pirate Skirt
- 2 x Clean 1 INT Red Marker
- 3 x 67 ATT Korean Fan
- Various scrolls

50m+ net worth! I didn't set any milestones but that's definitely worthy of celebration! Until next time

 

Day 13: Lazy

Small journal entry for today


2 INT Red Marker for 2m, should be able to get 3.5m-4m. good find!
Picked up 5 perf red pirate tops for 3m total or ~600k each, should be able to slowly sell for 1m each...


Viks trained me to spot this Doombringer heh


Some missed steals

Fans have not sold, will probably drop by 1m every 2 days.