Timeline for answer to Why is this less profitable for an adventurer to craft and then sell an artefact, rather than to sell ingredients needed to craft the artefact? by KarmaPeasant
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 23:43 | comment | added | Joe W | @Corey Who says they are not? There isn't enough information in the question to say either way. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 23:40 | comment | added | Corey | @JoeW Who says the professional crafters are using the same recipes? | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 11:57 | comment | added | Joe W | Yes they will try ang get prices as low as possible but are you trying to claim that crafters won't make items or make money just because they can't get items cheaply enough? They will just set the prices for the items they make based on what it costs to make them. Adventurers are not going to want to sell cheaply as it is likely costing them their lives to make and they will not be selling in bulk individually. They are going to want to find ways to sell for a higher price and only sell for cheaper when there is no other way. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 11:52 | comment | added | KarmaPeasant | @JoeW "That isn't true" What exactly isn't true? This is basic economics, prices go down - demand goes up. Crafters outside guilds wouldn't be able to get such low prices, so they would need to rely on ingredients from alternative, more expensive, sources, like adventures. So they would have to sell their artefacts at higher prices, which means that demand for their production will be lower than for in-guild-crafters. "at some point the price gets low enough that the adventurers lose money from selling them." They sell ingredients at different market, to out-of-guild crafters. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 11:39 | comment | added | Joe W | That isn't true at all crafters will make more money they more they make so they need to purchase as many materials as they can. Not only that at some point the price gets low enough that the adventurers lose money from selling them. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 6:53 | comment | added | KarmaPeasant | @JoeW "Wouldn't the crafters need to buy the same amount of ingredients regardless? " Professional crafters buy more ingredients as price is cheaper. "would mean the adventurers would lose out on profit instead of make more." Guilds of ingredients suppliers sell their ingredients exclusively to guilds of professional crafters. So it leaves place for ingredients market of out-of-guild crafters and people who use ingredients as final goods. | |
| Jul 12, 2021 at 16:34 | comment | added | Joe W | Wouldn't the crafters need to buy the same amount of ingredients regardless? And having an agreement to sell them at low prices would mean the adventurers would lose out on profit instead of make more. | |
| Jul 12, 2021 at 6:24 | history | answered | KarmaPeasant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |