Volume 1 Chapter 21 The First Auction (2)
At 6:00 sharp, the auction finally began!
What surprised us was that in the first auction, the items that players took out for trading were so rare! Logically speaking, in 4 days, many bosses below level 20 should have been killed by players, and the equipment dropped by the bosses should be more than a million pieces, not to mention that there are still some monsters that drop a lot, and the total number is more than the equipment dropped by the bosses. Although the average person gets less than one piece, there must be a lot of people who get equipment that is not suitable for their profession, so they should also put it up for auction, right?
In fact, because I have fought too many bosses, I don't have a perceptual understanding of the scarcity of equipment in Fantasy. Most players are reluctant to sell the equipment they get, for fear that they will not be able to buy equipment for their own profession after selling it. It is useless to have Fantasy coins. Therefore, many people stand at the return point and shout "I have equipment for XXX profession! Exchange it for XXX professional equipment! Only exchange, not sell!" in exchange for suitable equipment through barter.
Therefore, in the entire auction, there were less than 10,000 items registered for trading, and everyone was cherishing their . Even the rubbish white equipment of levels 11 and 12 were mostly placed in the mid-range area!
In the fantasy setting, everyone can get a bidding number and the right to participate in the auction by paying 10 silver coins to a special NPC. Of course, due to the large number of people, such players cannot enter the auction site. As long as you stay in the city, you can get the name, attributes, price, etc. of the auction items from the system prompts, and you can also bid according to the system prompts. After the transaction is completed, the system will directly deduct the corresponding gold coins from your bank account (of course, it refers to the account where the game coins are stored), and at the same time change the ownership of the items to your name. You can go to the NPC to collect the auctioned items. The system will also determine the amount of gold coins in your bank by itself. The quotation that exceeds your bank deposit is invalid, so there will be no breach of contract, and the identities of the two parties in the transaction will not be exposed. If it is an extremely special case, such as a divine artifact, when it is auctioned at a sky-high price, if a player wants to continue bidding and his account is temporarily insufficient, he can apply for a temporary auction closure procedure, and the system will give a certain amount of time for the player to mobilize funds.
If you are willing to pay 1 gold coin, you can get a bid plate, which allows you to enter the auction venue, where you can not only see the real auction items with your own eyes, but also experience the fierce atmosphere of the live auction. If you are rich, you can get VIP membership after paying 10 gold coins, and you can participate in the auction of high-end items . The high-end auction area also provides a trial space, where you can personally experience the performance of the auction items and then decide how much you are willing to pay for the auction!
The first items to be auctioned were low-end items. Since there were only more than 2,000 items up for auction, they were held in 20 venues. The equipment was classified by profession, and different types were auctioned in different venues.
None of us went to the auction site. After each of us spent 10 silver coins to buy a bidding number, we all gathered in a private room in our old haunt, Taibai Restaurant, and ate and drank while comfortably watching the "live broadcast" prompted by the system. If necessary, we would intervene to drive up the price of the items I put up for auction, or we would participate in the auction if we found equipment that we liked and the price was appropriate.
The result was shocking to us. The price of the No. 1 auction item, a level 8 white dagger that was so rotten that it couldn't be any worse, soared all the way to a "sky-high price" of 9 gold coins and 50 silver coins (relative to the actual value ). After that, the bidding for various junk equipment that appeared became more and more intense, and all of them were sold at very outrageous prices. We were stunned and couldn't react to whether it was a trust or not? Lonely said angrily: "Damn it, I still want to buy two pieces of jewelry that can be used by me. It seems that there are too many crazy people in Fantasy. I can't compete with them. I might as well change my career and open a mental hospital!"
Due to the large number of bidders, the auction of low-end items took two hours. On the one hand, we were excited about the income that was far beyond our imagination, but on the other hand, we were also very depressed. If we had known this would happen, we wouldn't have to worry about the auction at all. It would have been enough to leave the profiteer to guard it. We organized ourselves to fight the boss, and in two hours, we should have obtained more than ten or twenty pieces of equipment...
But since we are here, we might as well make the best of it and relax ourselves. In fact, I believe that there are not many people in the entire continent going out to level up and fight monsters right now, right?
The following mid-range item auction had several times more items than low-end items, and the auction was held in fifty venues. It was ridiculous that some guys were too self-righteous and took some extremely bad equipment to the mid-range area. You should know that the minimum reserve price of mid-range items is 50 gold coins. Although there are many suckers, not many people are willing to spend 50 yuan to buy an equipment that is almost useless for improving their own attributes, right? Therefore, several pieces of equipment were not auctioned at the beginning, and then the atmosphere began to gradually heat up. Due to the accurate positioning of the profiteers, all my equipment was sold at a high price, especially the black wood staff that was dropped by the goblin chief (originally for Fatty to use, but later Silver Wolf dropped a better golden staff, so this one was replaced). As soon as the system announced its attributes, a bidding frenzy immediately set off, and in the end, I don’t know which rich guy bought it at a sky-high price of 420 gold coins. Damn, it seems that the golden hand axe I sold to Starling was definitely sold at a loss, and it could be auctioned for at least 800 gold coins!
When those pieces of equipment above level 20 appeared, I thought that there were not many at level 20, and they probably couldn't be sold at the sky-high price like the Blackwood Staff. Who would have thought that those rich guys seemed to be afraid that they would not be able to get matching equipment after reaching that level, and their bids were even crazier than each other. The final transaction price made me wonder if I was dreaming! Although none of the equipment broke my previous record of the highest transaction price of a single item in the online game, it was really unimaginable that such low-grade garbage equipment could be sold at this price. Haha, Dream, Dream, you are indeed my beautiful dream, and I will rely on you to make a fortune in the future!
After the mid-range items were auctioned, the high-end items were very quiet. There was only one dark gold equipment and five gold equipment in the auction, and they were all low-level equipment. Even so, they were all sold for more than 700 gold coins. The dark gold equipment set a record for the single item price of the auction today: 1,200 gold coins! I really don’t know what figure I would have gotten if I had auctioned the Bloodthirsty Demon Spear.
After the auction ended, the profiteer calculated that 32 pieces of equipment were sold for a total of 3,456 gold coins. After deducting the system handling fee, the actual income was 2,959 gold coins!
Everyone looked regretful and said, "If I had known that I could get such a good price, I would have skinned myself naked and sold it. The next auction will have higher player levels and more low-level items. I'm afraid I won't be able to get such a ridiculous price!"
This is true. You should know that there are 12 of us, 9 of whom are combat professions. Basically, everyone is equipped with most of the equipment (about 10 to 12 pieces for the whole body, depending on the profession). There are more than 60 pieces of equipment we wear, plus the reserved ones, there are more than 80 pieces in total. Moreover, the equipment for our own use is selected according to our preferred attributes. Therefore, if we sell all of them, our income will at least exceed 10,000 gold coins!
The profiteer said mysteriously: "Not selling it is not necessarily a bad thing!"
"Why?"
"First, Fantasy releases a batch of accounts every three days, 20 million each time, which means that another 40 million players will flock to Fantasy in a week, and the equipment market will definitely still be in short supply. Second, for today's auction, I set my identity information to public, and all our equipment was sold under my name. This information can be found in the official information column of the auction house. It can be said that I am the largest supplier of today's auction! No one else except me can take out dozens of equipment to participate in the auction at one time. People with intentions will definitely notice this. I dare say that as long as I appear in the city, someone will come to me to buy equipment! You can give priority to using the best equipment to level up, and I will sell the obsolete ones. My reputation will definitely become more and more famous, and my business will only get better and better in the future. If you sell all the equipment at once, it will definitely affect your leveling. This is purely killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. The long-term solution is the kingly way!"
Haha, the words of the profiteer made us all suddenly enlightened, especially me. It seems that to become a successful professional player, I have to ask more advice from old birds like the profiteer. After all, although I have superb gaming skills, I still don’t know much about how to make money most effectively, and making money in the game is the fundamental purpose of professional players.
Finally, we discussed the distribution of benefits. Since most of the equipment was obtained by me, Ji Mo and the others said that they would just take a gamble and all the profits would belong to me. I said, "Friends are friends, and we should settle accounts clearly. It's true that the equipment I obtained accounted for 4/5 of the total, but you can't say that you got nothing, right? So, each of you will take 18 (to be given) gold coins as a gamble, and the rest will be divided into 10 parts, and I will take 70%. Today, we can sell our equipment at such a high price because of the profiteer who helped us calculate and get the best appearance number, and he has a share of the credit, so the 30% will be divided equally among the 9 of you. In the future, our equipment will all rely on the profiteer to help us sell it, and according to the rules, he will take 10%, how about it?"
Although the profiteers and the shady people in this group have more experience than me, I am a combat professional with the highest level, so I have more prestige and am implicitly the leader. Moreover, my proposal is quite reasonable, and everyone is not fussy, so they immediately accepted my opinion. As for why we let the profiteers help us sell equipment in the future, why do we give him such a high commission, more than double the consignment of the system store? That's because I know that with his planning and marketing methods, we can definitely sell our equipment at the highest price, even higher than the system auction! I have seen that when he does business, he can turn straw into gold, and he can make more money than that 10% by fooling people.
I divided the spoils on the spot, and I got a total of 1925 gold coins, which is nearly 2000 yuan! Even if the system deducts 20% tax when exchanging, it is still almost 1600 yuan. My God, I made such a fortune in just 4 days after the opening of Fantasy. Maybe I can really realize my dream of owning a car and a villa with this game in the future!
Naturally it was my turn to treat today, so after paying the bill, we walked out of Taibai Restaurant, feeling even more excited. After some discussion, since everyone's level had increased, we decided to go and challenge the Golden Wolf King once again!
