So i am looking to sell mats on the GTN and was wondering what people thought the most profitable resources there are. I am using slicing and underworld trading right now, the third is still undecided. Scaveging and archaeology seem to not sell for much so I am wondering what people think sells for so much from those professions. Thanks

Scavenging. If I can get fibermesh for under 1000 a piece I consider myself lucky, 1200 is average, and it's only lv 4.

but how often to people buy those. are they a stable source of consistent money? why would you use a lower level mat like that?

bio: mutagenic paste

scav: durasteel/zal alloy

 

this stuff is needed by just about everyone and the reflected prices show. 90k a stack is usually cheap.

would say bioanalysis mats sell good, same as UWT. Don't know the rest, I have only these on all my toons. Or you can consider diplomacy in addition, radioactive paste is not bad either

It's more a case of stay away from things in huge supply, people who gather for themselves look to dump their excess mats onto the GTN so typically subelectronic modules (the blue grade 6 slicing mats) are awash on the market, levelling mats are rarer because fewer people sell them, same goes for the biochem grade 6 mats.

 

I've found anything else sells well with some other exceptions like neutronium.

 

Treasure hunting crits are fairly low amongst the companions so I'd see a demand for the artifice mats, my advice is to be smart and use a strategy. Take slicing, slice continously, hopefully get a mission, either run the mission and sell the mats, or sell the mission- for example

Each crew skill that produces mats, with the possible exception of Investigation, will result in a group of mats that sell well and for a good price.

 

The mat market is sporadic in the sense that each mat seems to have large ups and downs in price and supply. You have to monitor the GTN and see what is hot at each moment. You need ot have a wide range of offerings to stay in the market. If one thing is in good supply and there is a price drop, offer another in a different area.

 

In other words rather than a certain crew skill or mat, I would recommend doing your homework (monitor the gtn) and building an understanding of the economy. Try to learn which mats, without regard to current pricing, sell well and are always in demand. While selling the flavor of the day, I still gather and run missions to acquire certain mats that are down because I know that they are much used and the price will jump back up soon.

 

The only specifc that I would point out as an adjunct to gathering mats is Slicing lockbox missions. They are to me a win win. A failed, non crit, mission will return a lockbox which gives on average a little more in credits than the mission costs (small gain for failure) and when they crit you will get one or two gathering missions that when run will return purple mats. If you run enough slicing missions, you will end up with a ton of valuable crew missions.

 

Much luck to you.

 

Edit - Also look at mats that you can produce cheaply and in plentiful supply and that you can use to craft items that can be REed. That results in components that can be used to craft Mk-x kits and they always sell well and for good price.

Edited January 10, 2013 by asbalana

but how often to people buy those. are they a stable source of consistent money? why would you use a lower level mat like that?

 

1 - scavenging materials are used in alot of crafts.

2 - the only stable source of money is running daily missions.

3 - compare the # of sub 49 level players on all planets to the number of over 50 players hanging out on the fleet and Illum. And guess which group is in need of a whole new set of gear every 5 levels?

Anything other than Scav/bioanalysis/archeology is a waste of time selling mats. It's about volume, period. Sliciing/UW and the like have some nice margin mats but the volume to which you sell is not there.