thedude83
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Alright, so I know a lot of people on ROBLOX that have trouble with trading, or trading with profit, or with LMaD, or in general just the roblox economy. This is a guide to get people familiar with LMaD and/or the trade system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sections: 1. Value 2. Trading 3. Investing 4. Demand 5. RAP 6. Selling items 7. Legit or not 8. LMaD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Value Now first, what you’re going to need is a reference to the values of hats. The best reference available is BlazingxD’s list of limited item values. This is the current version of that list: http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=102756443 It gets updated every so often, and you can find the newest version on his profile whenever it gets updated. Follow the thread so you have an easy way to access it. It’s always a good idea to know how much the items you’re trading are worth. If you are still not sure about the value of an item, you can price check it on LMaD and ask them how much it is. Usually they will respond, but you may have to bump the thread a few times to get an answer. -Note- The Recent Average Price, or RAP, or the lowest price an item is being sold for are NOT necessarily what the value of the item is. Anyway, now that you have your item values figured out, it is time to start trading! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Trading Trading is done usually with two main methods, used together. The first of these methods is upgrading. Upgrading is where you take multiple items with a lesser value, and trade them up to one item with a greater value. Usually when you upgrade, you have to overpay a little bit, because they are losing their item of greater value. For them it is downgrading, which is the second method. When you downgrade, you are trading an item of greater value, for multiple items of lesser value, whereas stated before, they overpay, so you get more value. Now that you have more value, you can upgrade again for an even better item. Using these two methods, you can keep upgrading for a better item, downgrading to smaller or lesser items, then re-upgrading back up to a bigger item for profit! If you aren’t sure whether to make a trade or not, ask LMaD! They will let you know if the trade is good for you or not. That’s the basis of profiting from trading. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Investing Once you have an item that seems to be pretty good, you may want to decide: should I keep this for awhile, or should I trade it away. This depends on: 1) do you like the item, and 2) is it raising or lowering in value. If an item is raising in value, you may really wanna consider holding onto it for awhile. If you hold onto an item that is raising, its value will go up, and then you can get better items from it. However, if an item is lowering in value, you should probably trade it away for something better, quickly. You can usually ask LMaD if an item is raising or lowering, or again, check Blazing’s list as a reference, which shows if an item is going up or down. An item’s going up or down can be determined by the demand of an item. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Demand The demand of an item is how much people want that item. If people want the item a lot, it tends to drive up the price and raise the value, since they want it more and will pay more to get it. On the flipside of that, if people don’t want the item, it lowers in value and people try to get rid of it by selling cheaper and cheaper. Another thing is that higher demand means you will typically get better trades for that item. If the item has bed demand though, it will be tough to get rid of. You could even lose profit by getting an item with bad demand just trying to get rid of it. Be careful about items that have bad demand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. RAP Now, about what I mentioned earlier about the RAP of an item. The RAP of an item just shows you the prices that the item has recently sold for, and averages them. Sometimes there are people that trade based on the RAP of an item which for items below 1-10k can be a good idea, but NOT recommended for items with a value of above 10k, as it could easily mess you up. The RAP of an item can easily get messed up by people trying to get rid of it and selling cheap, or by people that LPP (Lowest Price Possible) it, as it will affect the average and bring it down. 6. Selling items Honestly, selling your items is not the best way to go. You will usually lose, mainly because of roblox’s tax. It takes 30% of however many robux you sell it for, so you get a lot less than what the item is actually worth. Also, the item could inexplicably raise and you will be out all that money. Believe me, I’ve made horrible mistakes about selling items in the past. I sold void star when it was 5k, then a week later it went to 40k and I was sad. Just don’t sell your items, unless you need to get robux very quickly, for instance when a new limited is supposed to be coming out and you need enough to get it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Legit or not Another thing to watch out for in trading is if people are “legit” or not. People that are legit are honest in their trades, and is trustable. There are people that will try to rip you off, and they would NOT be legit people. Never trust someone that says they will send you an item after you send them one. Or, if you have to send more than 4 of your items in a trade, make sure they can be trusted to go through with the deal. Always ask LMaD if someone is legit if you’re ever in doubt. You can easily lose everything by being ripped off by someone that isn’t trusted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. LMaD If you’re getting into trading, you are going to want to be active in LMaD. Being active in LMaD is really the only way to be involved with the trading community. When in the trading community you can ask questions on trades, answer other people’s questions on trades, give advice, and many other things! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I hope this guide helped some of you out there! Thanks for reading, and happy trading! (:
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Zephion
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:05 PM |
tl:dr
ᴢᴇᴘʜɪᴏɴ is leh best in leh wurld |
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dwd1106
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:06 PM |
http://www.roblox.com/My/Money.aspx?tab=TradeItems
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SLIPDOG
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honebey
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thedude83
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:07 PM |
| It isn't c/p I made it all by myself.. |
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:07 PM |
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~Life is like roses, they wither and die.~ |
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3oc
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:08 PM |
i saw a guide like this before
Launching Monkeys at Donkeys Since 6/4/2012 ----==Looking for Sword Cane. Offering CWHP+CWS+4K RAP==---- |
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GGGGG14
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thedude83
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:12 PM |
| Really people,tl;dr'ing a guide.. It's a guide. Its supposed to be long :/ |
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:13 PM |
Thank you. I will bookmark this.
Epic Shirt: http://www.roblox.com/Trading-Is-Epic-Originial-item?id=114216404 |
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3oc
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thedude83
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:23 PM |
| Oh, thanks Lax, I may update it later, it was sort of a first draft lol. Didn't know you already made one ;-; the only guide of yours I've seen is how to start with an egg and go from there, the one pinned on Blazing's list. |
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Zonlu
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thedude83
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:33 PM |
| I was actually thinking about mentioning yours lol, but I wasn't sure where to put it. Thanks for your advice and criticism also :) |
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thedude83
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:42 PM |
| Also lax, I was trying to encompass all the things a newer trader could want to know, if you could tell. Do you think there's anything I missed? |
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Vilusion
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thedude83
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| 26 Jun 2013 05:45 PM |
| qq alright, I'll try to expand more on the things. It was only a first draft too. |
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