114696-players-spamming-chat-to-buy-bulk-farming-materials-eg-ore

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			So many players buying bulk farming material spamming it in chat. What are they doing with so many mats? There should be a gain behind it. Do they craft and make those mats worth? Also the CX may have them for slightly higher price.	
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			The only way this could possibly matter is if they're not using Trade. If the server you're on is like many, then they may be spamming to let people know there are buyers out there, because overall activity has dropped. I know I personally don't bother listing things unless things are busy or I know there are buyers. These people may just be looking to make some buys from people who have a lot of mats stockpiled for Megaservers, but would be willing to sell now for the right price.	
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They're posting it because there are schematics that let them turn certain top-teir resources into vendor trash for a profit even at the prices they are offering. Its a bottomless money engine as long as people are willing to turn the crank for them. Nothing is being "stockpiled", because the loop could get shut down at any time. Anything on the AH that is priced low enough to run those schematics at a profit is flatly GONE from the AH within seconds - the AH fees are what send them out to make direct trades.
 
Nothing wrong with trading your stuff to them as long as you realize you're arming them with more money than you're getting should you ever find yourself competing against them for something at the AH.	
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There are two architect items that can turn a profit.
 
 
Hanging Exile Lamps can be made with 2 xenocite and a Chrysalus and vendored for 49 silver. With the right talents and the current price on the mats, you can turn a 6 to 26 silver profit on each item. It's not a significant enough income stream but great for when you are at work and has the crafting addon to churn away thousands of crafts.
 
The other is the infamous Lopp Hookah which is reposted ad nauseam.	
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There are two architect items that can turn a profit.
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Two? :D
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There are two architect items that can turn a profit.
 
 
Hanging Exile Lamps can be made with 2 xenocite and a Chrysalus and vendored for 49 silver. With the right talents and the current price on the mats, you can turn a 6 to 26 silver profit on each item. It's not a significant enough income stream but great for when you are at work and has the crafting addon to churn away thousands of crafts.
 
The other is the infamous Lopp Hookah which is reposted ad nauseam.
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sounds like its 1 of those gold sellers projects.  they set up bots to post the request and buy the resourse while using an add-on to produce thousands of items at a time all day long like a factory so its profit levels slowly rise over time.  I'd be a little worried carbine would sudden decide this was a exploit even tho it is fairly reasonable.  won't be surprised to hear the vendor value of these items suddenly drop to a level they lose value rather then gain.
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Couple things on this topic:
 
1) I have it in writing from Carbine that making a profit from crafting using farmed or CX-obtained materials then selling the result to a vendor is not an exploit.
 
2) There are TONS of recipes like this, and not just for architects. Many of the recipes have been reviewed by Carbine and had their vendor sale price updated, in many cases, the updated pricing still allowed for a profit margin... just a smaller one.
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Profit should be made by selling items to other players, not to vendors. This isn't a single-player game, where you craft and sell to vendor. It's an MMO and imo the crafting profit should come from trading with ... players... not NPCs.
 
Also, by making profit from selling to vendors, it allows bots to farm, sell, and make profit the easy way.
 
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