Yes, I too noticed at least with high level gems that a 5 gold or so profit
could be made by selling back to the vendor an enchanted silver piece of
jewelry. Does not help much if you fail, but still beats losing money on
those items that don't sell well (at least not for what they are worth) but
are helpful for raising skill (like silver pearl rings and such). I'm
almost to opal and am about to switch over to electrum (even though I can't
enchant it yet). Wish me luck ... I'll need it!
Dietrich of Neriak
Struggling jeweler
> ----------
> From: Michael O'Reilly[SMTP:michael@...]
> Reply To: eqenchanters@onelist.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 11:37 AM
> To: 'eqenchanters@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqenchanters] Where do I start?
>
> From: Michael O'Reilly <michael@...>
>
> I got different results than this. While working on jewelcraft last
> night, making electrum malachite, I found that the merchant would buy
> back unenchanted bracelets for about 2cp below component cost and
> enchanted bracelets for about 1gp above component cost.
>
> I decided that it was still better not to enchant the metal, since I was
> making about a hundred of them, and waiting on mana made things much
> slower. Regardless, if you have a lot of time on your hands, and money
> is an issue, it might be worthwhile to enchant the metal when
> practicing.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catherine M. Campbell
> [mailto:cathyc@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 8:25 AM
>
> Just a note that enchanting the silver does not alter
> the price you will
> get at a merchant for your jewellery. Note that the
> merchant might sell
> the item to a player for less than you would sell it to
> them (i.e. the cost
> of a non enchanted item).
>
> When you're improving your skill and just intending to
> sell back the
> jewellery, you should try to not enchant the metal.
> When you're making
> jewellery to order, then go ahead and enchant away.
>
> Nimue
> Tunare
>
> According to the illustrious Paul Bernat...
> :)From: "Paul Bernat" <pz.bernat@...>
> <snip>
> :)Enchanting the bars beforehand seems to make no
> difference to the success /
> :)failure rate, although it can increase the NPC sale
> value of your goods.
> :)
>
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