How to use Item Data Searches to help you find good items to trade
When trading items server to server you can find some huge margins! That Hempen Tunic might be listed for over 1 million gil on your home server, but how can you tell if it actually sells for 1 million gil? How can you figure out if an item is a good one to trade, craft or buy?
That's where our Item Data comes in to help you out!
We have two searches available on the side bar for Listings Comparison and Competition Metrics and Item History Statistics and Graphs which let you get the same information when looking for items directly. The Item Data links in the Import Trading Search results sends you directly to those pages.
This is a simple overview of the competition that exists on your server for any one item. Even if an item looks like a great trade, you may want to avoid it if other sellers are likely to make it more difficult to sell. It shows the current listings, average/median price differences and average/median time between the posting times of the items.
- If the price differences are under 10k then it will appear as green saying that undercutters are not dropping prices drastically.
- Red means the undercutters are tanking the market and you should stay away
- If the time differences are more than 30 min it will be green and you will have 30 min or more before someone undercuts you.
- Red means the competition will very quickly undercut you before you have a chance to sell and potentially indicates evidence of botting when the update time is under 1 min.
This gives you a total overview of how an item sells with many, many statistics, charts, tables and graphs.
At the top we cover the Median and Average Region wide price, the total sold in 2 weeks, the average quantity sold per day (if it sells in stacks of more than 1) and the number of times it is actually purchased each day.
Item only selling stacks of 1:
Item that sells in bulk:
This shows you a distribution of all sales and what prices they sold at.
- For this item we can see it has sold for below 75k and as high as 1.05 million!
- Typically it is selling between 450k to 750k.
You would want to use this most of all to pick a price for selling your item.
- If you wanted to sell this you may get as high as 1 million, but thats unlikely. If all listings on your server are at 10 million then its not worth it to post that high as no one is realistically going to buy it for that much.
- We do see that it can easily sell as high as 750k so if its selling for 315k on another server and listed at 660k on your home server that is a good trade that is likely to sell!
- If you are dealing with an out of stock item and can sell for any price generally you want to pick the highest number that appears on this graph.
This helps you figure out whats the best stack size to use when selling if you are selling a commodity. We can see this item either sells in very small stacks of 1 to 3 or large stacks of 99:
This isn't very useful for items that only sell in stacks of 1:
This shows the sales on your home server over time, so you can determine the best time of day and day of the week to sell. It also shows you if there is some downtime between sales and some spikes when buying pressure is the highest!
Sometimes you will see random items sell for hundreds of millions of gil! This doesn't mean you have a real chance of selling for that price and we filter these out of all our statistics.
These values are false sales used by players to launder gil between their accounts and servers and get around the 1 million gil limit on hand to hand gil trading, which is why they almost always happen on Mannequins for reduced sale taxes. A player will use one account to post an item for several million and then use the other account to buy the item. This lets players transfer massive amounts of gil between servers when making new alts and expanding to new servers.
Generally these should be ignored and we display this data to tell you these are outlier sales and should not be considered when selling an item.
