Tutorial:Bazaar Flipping

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Bazaar flipping is the act of buying and/or selling items on the Bazaar in such a way that you get more money than how much you spent.

Don't be shy to add your own flipping methods, just make sure they still work and don't mention specific items to flip as the meta keeps changing. When explaining a flip, generalize it as much as possible so that the readers can come up with their own flips since, after all, the main trick to Bazaar Flipping properly is adapting to the economy.

1. One way to bazaar flip is buying items from a Merchant, and selling them for more at the bazaar. A good example is buying packed ice from the builder for 9 coins, and then selling them at the Bazaar for 52.4 coins, a noticeable profit.
2. The most used Bazaar Flip method is setting up buy orders for items and then setting up sell offers for the items you bought. This will almost always result in profit. To do this more efficiently, try finding items that have either high demand or a high difference between the buy and sell price (best case scenario they have both, usually happens when an update just dropped). Also remember that if you have enough money, you can flip more than one item at a time.
3. Some items sell for more than the bazaar material cost. For example, the Aspect of the End costs 108,596 coins to craft from Bazaar materials, which may be less than its BIN price. This is obviously not the only item this is the case for. Just make sure the item isn't too expensive as that’ll make it more expensive to put up for BIN and putting up for BIN usually makes you a higher amount of money on average than just auctioning the item.
4. Another way to bazaar flip is to find items that have an enchanted form, and check if 160 of the unenchanted form costs less than the enchanted form. If so, you can get the unenchanted and make the enchanted. Sometimes if the margin is large enough you can decide to instant buy and instant sell to decrease the profit a little but increase the efficiency if the item is not too high demand. Example: Obsidian is for example 29 coins. Enchanted Obsidian per se 4,457.7 coins, you make 4,457.7 coins - 4,640 coins per flip and this adds up. Tip: Use a Personal Compactor to increase efficiency by a lot.
5. Some items can be buy ordered off the bazaar for less than their NPC sell price and sold to an NPC for profit. This is a type of NPC flipping. This is capped by the daily 200 million coin NPC sell cap.
6. An additional way requires access to ⏣ Dwarven Mines and a Heart of the Mountain at Level 2 or higher. Using the The Forge, one can create (forge) either more sophisticated materials (not unlike turning regular material into their enchanted versions) or equipment/accessories. The caveat here is the fact that each forging process takes time (anything from 4 hours to several days) and that forging slots are capped at five, which limits the maximum daily profit. For this same reason, many (though not all, check Bazaar prices beforehand) forged items sell for significantly more than their base material cost. It is a slow, but consistent and low-effort method, provided one has the requisite amount of coins to buy the base materials at the Bazaar, which, depending on the desired target, can start at several hundredthousand, while higher profit items may require an up-front cost of several millions. Example: A Refined Diamond, currently, requires material worth around 400k and eight hours to forge, and may then be sold for 600k. A Drill Engine requires material worth 2.6M and 30 hours, and may be sold for roughly 4M.

Note: Check Community Resources:Useful External Resources for a lot of useful sites, including ones that help you with Bazaar Flipping.

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