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 Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 1:29 pm
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Post #2: Types of Currency
 Platinum (p) is now the most used coin. It is easy to get, and each one is worth 10 million Gaia Gold. Except as noted below, you'll earn the most by keeping your account preference set to Platinum. For folks who still use gold (in art shops, for instance):
1 billion gold = 100 plat, 10 billion gold = 1,000 plat, 100 billion gold = 10k (10,000) plat, and 1 trillion gold = 100k (100,000) plat.
gaia_gaiagold Gaia Gold (gg) or (g) is an older currency that is generally more unwieldy than platinum (more zeros) and earned at a much slower rate everywhere except certain high levels in Lake Kindred. Items that list for 1 platinum in gold shops are often really worth much less than that if you are using gold, but Gaia actually only takes out the fraction of platinum needed (if you use the shopping cart you'll see you can buy many "1 plat" items that add up to 1 platinum at check out). This is why when you use the "Sell Back" option in your inventory, it says "for 0 platinum" even though it's giving you half of the gold it can be bought for there. If you sell enough (like 500 Fairy Wings which sell for 40,000 g and therefore sell back for 20,000 g each), you will wind up with another platinum eventually. The system remembers the "parts" of platinum you earn, too. You just don't see it when using the platinum system.
  Gaia Cash (gc) is what you get when you give Gaia real life money. $1.00 US = 100 gc. You can then buy items in cash shops (Cloud 9 if you are a subscriber, La Victorie, Rococo, Mecha Neko, Back Alley Bargains, and some items in Phin Phang, the Bifrost, and the Faktori). While you can also use gc to buy things in the marketplace, don't do it - that wastes your money! See more details about Gaia Cash in Post 4 below.
Game Items and Special Items Used to Get Other Items
 Stars are Gaia's rewards for buying and spending Gaia Cash. You can see how many you have and spend them in the Gaia Rewards page.
 Tokens are used to play some games where you can earn tickets  . The only shop where you can spend tickets is Prize and Joy.
 Wing stickers are earned during events, often found daily on the event home page. They can only be spent in the Treehouse shop.
      Charms are used in an old feature called GoFusion. Visit the GoFusion Guide for details.
      For details about Game items (bugs to get inks, flowers to get bouquets, trash to make paper hats, fish to make items, and Graduate Credits to make caps), see the Game Item Exchange FAQ.
 Visit The Alchemist's Encyclopedia for information on Alchemy. You need to collect a variety of stuff to make other stuff. Beware: This is not usually a good way to earn coins.
A note about Achievement points: they are not currency and can not be spent or used for anything other than bragging rights. |
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Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 2:14 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:58 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:59 pm
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Post # 5: Playing the Market
Of course, the best way to make gold on the Marketplace (MP) is to buy an item that has been priced low and sell it for a lot more than you paid for it.
TIMING:
1. Generally a brand new item costs more when it first comes out and then the price drops a lot over the first few days. Free items (from events, Spinami, etc.) almost never recover to their first-released prices, but most other items do eventually recover much of that loss, and sometimes go even higher.
2. Items sell fastest during the evenings (USA time) and over the weekends. They often sell for slightly less in the Exchange forum if you can find the item you want for sale (about 90% of the Lowest Buy Price, or LBP). The other number you can use to haggle if it's lower is the ABP or Average Buy Price.
3. The MP has ups and downs. If the graphs are hidden, click "Show graphs" for more information. Graphs show how an item has been selling over the past month/year, both in price and number. If very few are sold each day but several are for sale, you may need to set your price much lower to entice anyone to buy it. If none are for sale, you may be able to set the price higher. New items won't have enough data to graph and the prices are extremely volatile (moving up or down very quickly, usually down).
4. When a Chance Item with many new items comes for sale, the items in the CI start very high, especially the rare ones.
5. The graphs for the last month show how the prices have been going lately on average. If the prices are going down, you only want to sell an item that was a free item recently. That price will continue to drop until those are often worth very little. But if your item is just experiencing a brief dip in price, hold off selling it for a while (days or even months) until the price comes back up. Many, though not all, prices come back up given enough time.
6. When you sell it, the 7 days default is usually a pretty good way to be sure everyone gets a chance to see it and buy it. If it hasn't sold in 7 days, it probably won't sell at that price in 14.
PRICING:
1. Gold shop items (and some others) can be sold for half their cost (or Sellback Value) from your Inventory. If you can sell items for more than that on the MP go for it. Never buy items for more than they cost in the shops! If you want it for yourself, just buy it from the shop.
2. When setting your price, make sure that you price it to cover the 5% MP tax. Selling an item that cost you 1,000 plat for 1,049 plat will not give you a profit! You have to sell it for at least 1,050 more before you've covered the tax. To be sure, multiply the price you paid times 1.05 to see how much you need to sell it for just to break even.
3. Look up the item you are selling on the MP. If the Lowest Buy Price is higher than the Average Buy Price, prices are going up and now is probably a good time to sell. If the Average Buy Price is higher, prices are dropping and it's probably not a good time to sell (unless it was free). Be careful to make sure that the item is being bought by checking the graphs. If only one or two were sold each day for the past several days, that item is not easy to sell. You're price will probably need to be close to or less than the Average Buy Price to sell.
4. I just list buy price and don't generally mess with bidding prices. If you do use bid prices, be sure not to set the starting bid price for less than you'd be willing to see it sell for. Let the bid increase by 1 to give everyone a chance to bid. Be careful not to set the increment too high, or you will never get more than your starting bid.
5. If the first several Lowest Buy Prices are increasing sharply and lots of the item are being sold, pick a price just a bit less than the second price to sell fairly quickly (as that lowest price will probably sell very soon and then yours will be the lowest). Again, check the graphs to be sure the items are actually selling.
FINAL NOTES:
1. DOUBLE CHECK YOUR LISTING! Make sure you have the right number of zeros and the numbers reflect the price you want.
2. Only sell one of a given item at a time. Don't compete with yourself! If it sells quickly at that price, you can list it's duplicate and maybe even raise the price a little.
NEVER GIVE ANYONE YOUR PASSWORD! No staff member on Gaia needs it and anyone who says they want or need it is lying and will only steal from you. If you get a PM or see a message asking for your password or asking you to reset your password to their choice, report it immediately and do not follow their instructions! |
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:05 pm
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Post # 6: Charities
Still need more coins? Check out THE List of Charities for charities run by generous Gaians willing to donate coins (or sometimes items) to you. That thread is in the Charities/Quests forum, which might have active unlisted charities on the first page of the forum, too.
BE SURE TO READ the WHOLE FIRST PAGE of any charity you go to so you follow their rules. It's only 15 posts at most, and if you fail to follow their rules you will probably not get a donation from them.
You must have a Trading Pass for anyone to give you coins. You can buy one for 500g at the Bank. Be sure to change your account preferences to "gold" from "platinum" so you don't get charged 500 platinum for it. Then change your preferences back to "Platinum" so everything else you do earns more.
Begging for coins by just saying "give me ___" or use of crying emoticons is generally frowned upon as annoying and will not get you much in the way of donations.
MAKING A QUEST THREAD
You've visited charities and some require a Quest Thread. What is it? It is a thread you start to show you are dedicated to saving up enough platinum for some expensive item. Some items were given out and are not in stores. These items are only available in the Marketplace or The Gaia Exchange if someone is selling theirs. You can search for any item on Gaia in the Marketplace or from your Dress-up page (click "All Gaia" instead of "My Inventory" when searching at the top of your inventory window).
Parts of a Quest Thread:
1. Introduction (a poll may attract more visitors) telling what you are questing for and why.
2. Progress telling how much you have and how much you will need to get the item.
3. Thanks Section thanking all those by name who have donated to your quest.
4. Thanks to bumpers who help keep your thread visible. BUMP means "Bump Up My Post" and is used to move a thread to the top of its forum. Threads are listed in each forum in order of most recent posts. So the thread which has had a post most recently will be at the top of the list after the Announcements and Stickies. Any post, including just an emoticon or the word "bump" will effectively move that thread to the top of its forum, and therefore be more visible to folks browsing the forum at that time.
5. Links to other threads (like charities that have helped you, other fellow questors, shops, or any other helpful threads you'd like to keep linked).
* Graphics make a thread more appealing, too. If you add a graphic link in your signature to your quest thread, perhaps folks might click it to visit your thread, maybe even bump it, and who knows, perhaps even give you a donation! Visit (and even bump) other quest threads for an idea of the possiblities! There are many talented folks in the Minishops forums who sell graphics if you don't want to make your own. The Minishops & Resources Center lists some such shops under Personalized Graphics.
Other information that charities often look for include your join date and number of posts. This information can be found in your profile, found under the MY GAIA tab.
Good luck! |
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:17 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:19 pm
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resets every 6 minutes or so. You often get junk, but occasionally you get nice things!
once for free each day for a free item. 
to earn platinum.
. Learn more about the 
in Post 5.
