How To Buying and Selling Mesos

How To Buying and Selling Mesos

Buying and Selling is one of the most important activities done in Maplestory. Mesos are the currency used in MapleStory and without it you will not get anywhere. This guide will help you with the many problems of Buying and Selling.

Selling - Free Market
The first way to make some mesos is by using the Free Market also known as the FM. When you have something of value (example: ore, rare equipment, quest items) which you don't need, why keep them? Instead, free up your inventory space while earning some Mesos on the Free Market! This process of selling in the FM can be quite stressful, though. There are many scammers, "noobs", and other users who can take advantage of you, so be careful. When you have something you want to sell, make sure you follow these steps.

How to Sell
Price Check. Check the average price of your item. You can ask a friend, use MapleStory Help Sites (such as MapleTip or Basilmarket - a site used just for buying/selling MapleStory items), or just use the NPC x1.5 Method. This method requires you to go into any store, double click on the NPC (Non-Player Character) Shop-owner who's there, and check to see how much they will buy your item for. Now, just multiply their price by 1.5. This works for some items, but not all though, so be careful. Since the shop usually buys the items for 1/2 the price it's bought, you would basically be selling the item for 75% of it's total value. Some items such as snowboards and other event items may only sell at 1 meso at the shops so use your common sense and check at a site.
Find an FM. Now you know the price of your item, let's sell it! You must now find a FM portal. These are located in: Henesys, Perion, El Nath, Aqua Road, Lubidrium, Omega Sector and Orbis(You'll most probably use those in Henesys and Perion more often as the other portals are in locations with higher-leveled and considerably tougher monsters). When you get to the town, enter into the large blue-oval portal, find a good spot to advertise and sell, sell, sell!!
Note that there is only one FM in a channel. This basically means that the Henesys, Perionm El Nath (etc) Free Market portals lead to one place. Tip: Make sure to use either Channel 1 or 2 when selling in the free market. Most people have established the first two channels as the unofficial location of the "Main" Free Market.

Create a Catchy Message. When sell something, you'll need to make your item's advertisement stand out from the rest of the crowds', or at least be noticeable. There are several ways to do this:
Use @. After you've created your selling message, insert in as many "@" signs as you can fit in your message. This will raise up your speech bubble, so it can be seen above the smaller speech bubbles. Or, when there's a load of people doing this, don't use the @ sign, or use less @ signs so yours stands out among the smaller speech bubbles.
Ducking and Jumping. If many people have taller messages, try ducking under their speech bubbles (using the DOWN arrow) to show yours. Or if there aren't too many people broadcasting tall bubbles, try and jump above messages.
Advertising Spots. If you're lucky, you can find a space where no one is advertising. Take this spot so people will be able to see your speech bubble clearly. These occurrences are rare, though.
Retyping. The most important tip - don't advertise just once. If you don't get a trade request right away, (which you shouldn't) retype the message, or, when you're able to type, press the UP arrow to get to your last message - presumably your advertisement. Keeping doing it until you get a request.
Note: If you type the same thing too many times, or give too many messages, a popup appears telling you that your messaging system has been disabled for a few seconds. Try to wait to the last second possible before your speech bubble disappears and you have to type again or make your messages slightly different, add a full stop or take away an '@'.

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