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As essay on those dreaded event items that everybody gets their limit of...


I have really studied this over the past several months and have come to a conclusion that I think is the answer. The answer is the Mimzy.

Mimzy came out several months ago and you can read all the discussions we had about it. When to buy, when to sell but I always thought the price would eventually go up. The problem was that it was about the first "event" item where every Gaian could easily get a maximum of 3 of them with no effort. When this happened, the price began to drop like a rock. I can recall Mimzy getting down below 100 gold, even buying some in the 30G range. Lots of folks sold them thinking they would never be worth anything. I bought a lot of them.

What happened is that 1000's of new folks sign on to GAIA each week and they want things like a Mimzy, a cool item that is reasonably priced. Compared to a KIKI kitty anyways. So I have been selling them for the past week at around 750-790 every night. I have sold 16 of them in the past two weeks. A very tisdy profit indeed.

The answer then to the problems with things like the Bee suit, the orchid brooch, ubi ramen, etc.... I have been buying these dirt cheap event items up every night for little or nothing. I mean I have bought several Bee suits for 1 gold. But if you are like me, you don't want 200 pieces of "worth nothing" event items cluttering up your really nice inventory. But logic says buy them and keep buying while they are so, so cheap.

My solution.. have at least 5-6 mules and use them for nothing except getting extra daily chances and extra daily gold and then trade all your junk event items over to your mule accounts. But.. here's the key. Once you trade to your mules, put the stuff in storage and leave it there... for at least 6 months, preferrably longer. By that time, enough new folks will sign on and join GAIA... and enough current members will lose interest or quit the game so as to drive the prices of these seemingly worthless junk to levels you would have never expected.

The moral of the story,...... buy dirt cheap, sell sky high.

I continue to buy the Bee suits and helmets at nothing prices. Bee suits can be had for 1-2 gold every night and helmets for 3-5 gold. It's boring to buy this junk but what are you out. If you buy the bee suits for 1-2 gold, you will make money when you buy them and here's how.

Purchase a bee suit for 1 gold... shift it to storage. Buy another bee suit for 2 gold, and shift it to storage. You have spent 3 gold, took about 3 -4 minutes to do so and made 5-8 gold for surfing. You are being paid by GAIA to buy junk. So if it never gets really valuable, you have made money on the front end. biggrin

I have probably 50 or so each of these items and they cost me nothing to buy. Let's say I sit on them for a year and they go to just 40 gold. I sell the 50 and I clear 2000 gold. Let's say they go to 200 gold... it brings me back 10,000.

You can't lose!