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How to Import, Trade and Flip items on the FFXIV Marketboard using Saddlebag Exchange Import Searches

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Alex Cohen edited this page Jul 13, 2023 · 18 revisions

How to Import, Trade and Flip items on the FFXIV Marketboard using Saddlebag Exchange Reselling Searches

Let's say you want to earn gil by flipping vendor items or trading items server to server.

What items should you actually buy and sell?

This is the difficult part of trading items or crafting in general and this is why Saddlebag Exchange was founded! You can find the list of all our trading searches here which all use the same search function to display different items based on the inputs you give it. Through our various premade searches and your own experimentation the Saddlebag Exchange Import Search is designed to fit any and every trading need!

Link: https://saddlebagexchange.com/queries

TLDR

  1. Pick a search from the list at: https://saddlebagexchange.com/queries
  2. Hit search and bookmark a search if you want to change the default values into a custom search.
  3. Look at items on the results table. Use the Item Data link to figure out if the item is a good one to sell and find out just how much gil you can realistically earn from trading it!
  4. Decide on some items you want to trade.
  5. Go in game search for the price on your home server to make sure the website is accurate.
  6. Travel to the server with the lowest prices and buy your items.
  7. Go to your retainers and post it on your home servers marketboard.
  8. Undercut until it sells.
  9. $$$ Profit $$$
  10. Go back to 1 and repeat.

Starter Search Recommendations:

DO NOT USE THE DEMAND HEART ICON!

If you have not used Saddlebag Exchange before you may have traded using the Demand heart icon that appears next to some items.

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This is not a good metric to use! This icon appears next to items people add the item to their favorites list and does not reflect the actual sales performance of an item.

Trading is a numbers game and you need raw statistics not a mysterious icon unrelated to actual sales in order to trade properly.

How Saddlebag Exchange Import Search Works!

Our search looks at sales per hour and average sale prices to find the best items to trade! We then add various filters to show different markets and provide many trading options.

We take many statistics into account, the main values we look for in each search come from them values you provide in the search form. We may find items that exceed these values, but we will filter out any items that don't meet your minimum requirements leaving only the best items in the search results:

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  • Sale Rate: Calculated from the values in Sale Amount divided by the Scan Hours
  • Average Sale Price: Calculated directly from the Average Price Per Unit
  • Potential Profit: Calculated by taking your home servers current lowest price minus the price of the lowest listing available on other servers. This is then filtered out using the ROI percent (i.e. Return on Investment) and the Minimum Profit Amount.

You can change the search with any numbers you like to find a search that fits your needs! You can save a custom search by bookmarking it in your browser or clicking the Share this search icon to copy the url link to your clipboard and share with others.

There are many advanced options that are described in this section of our guide.

How to read Search Results

After hitting search you will be given a big table with lots of information. You can rearrange the table by dragging columns and you can sort each column by clicking on it:

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Going through the columns we have:

  • Item Name: Showing the english name for an item
  • Item Data: This essentially tells you if this is a good item to trade! If you are considering trading an item clicking on this link is the very first thing you should do. It links to the Saddlebag exchange searches on that single items 'Listings Comparison and Competition Metrics' and 'Item History Statistics and Graphs'. These two searches provide a more detailed overview of the statics on an item, to help you learn what price you can sell this for, what time of day you can sell it, what stack size to use when selling commodities and much, more!
  • Universalis Link: This will show you the universalis page for an item if you prefer to view it on universalis. Saddlebag Exchange uses data from Universais and Universalis gets its data from players using Dalamud Plugins who crowdsource the data. If the prices of anything in the search results are off then you simply need to search for the item in game while having Dalamud Plugins installed and running. This will update universalis and then update Saddlebag Exchange to prevent the item from showing the incorrect value.
  • NPC Vendor Info: If an item is sold by a vendor in game this will show you the Eorzea Database page with all details on where to find the vendor and what price they sell the item at. If an item is not sold by a vendor then this column will be empty.
  • Lowest Price Server: This shows you where to find the lowest priced item on which server and datacenter. It will say Sold by Vendor - None if the cheapest way to get an item is directly from an NPC vendor.
  • Home Server Price: The current lowest listing price on your server.
  • Lowest Price Per Unit: The lowest price from the 'Lowest Price Server'
  • Profit Amount: The amount of profit you can gain from trading if you by at the lowest price found and sell at the current price on your home server. If an item is not listed on your home server the profit amount will appear at the top and have an ∞ symbol instead of a number.
  • Sale Rates: This is the sales per hour when looking at the last 40 sales. For example a sale rate of 0.25 sales per hour means 6 sales per day on your home server and one sale on average happening once every 4 hours.
  • Average Price Per Unit: The average sale price on your home server when looking at the last 40 sales.
  • Return on Investment: This is the 'Profit Amount' minus all costs (taxes and purchase price) divided by the total amount of gil earned from a sale at your servers current lowest listing price in a percentage.
  • Profit Percentage: A less useful number this is the 'Profit Amount' divided by 'Lowest Price Per Unit' in a percentage.
  • Lowest Price Stack Size: If the item sells in stacks of more than 1 then this will tell you the size of the stack at the lowest price (sometimes you want quantity over price and don't want to waste time traveling for a stack of 1 lumber).
  • Lowest Price Last Update Time and Home Server Info Last Updated At: These are the last time universalis received data from its crowdsourcing for each data set. If this date is really old then you may want to go search on the marketboard to help universalis update its data.

Advanced Search Options

If you click the Advanced Search Options you will see more options for your search.

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  • Minimum Stack Size will filter out stacks in low amounts if you want to only buy in bulk.
  • Enable HQ only if you only want to see HQ items
  • Region Wide Search to search all servers in your region, unchecking this will only show trading options within your datacenter.
  • Include Out of Stock if unchecked will not show out of stock items
  • Include Vendor Prices will compare vendor prices to the Lowest Price Server value in results and show the vendor price if the vendor is the cheapest place to buy an item. This will not be shown if Enable HQ only is selected.
  • Filters will let you filter by item category. You will find all main and sub categories that you find on the marketboard and you can get the full explanation of these values on our wiki page about this subject. We also have 3 custom categories we created for Items sold by vendors and also items used for various quests like Supply and Provisioning Quests and Crafter Quest Items.
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