MMORPG.com Lord of the Rings Online Correspondent Andrei Hamagea writes this look at buying items in Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online and the best ways to get the most bang for your Middle-Earth buck.
In Part One, I began talking about the importance of timing, speculation and observation in deciding prices for the items you sell on the auction house in Turbine's Lord of the Rings Online. For the second part, I will try to put matters from the perspective of the buyer, leading him to take advantage of the often poorly marketed products he might come across.
Buying bases itself on an imperfect auction house system and by that I am referring to the repeatedly over and under pricing of items. Your job out there is to study these trends and come up with an "average" price for the item that you are trying to purchase. This is the reason why when you are a lonely seller you gain monopoly of the selling value. Hence our constant struggle is to successfully exploit these under sellers and take advantage of any situation as long as it brings profit.
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