Guild Wars 2

so I’m trying to learn how to use the TP to make fast gold. I heard the TPspidy thing is good but I have no clue what I’m looking at when I go there. can anyone explain to me how to do this?

There is no such thing as “make fast gold”, especially on the trading post if you don’t already have a boat load of gold.

Go farm Silverwastes like everyone else.

Start with gw2shinies.com instead of spidy. Go to the ’tool’s section:

• Shiny Salvage shows items that can be broken down for profit using Black Lion Salvage Kits, because the runes/sigils are worth substantially more than the custom buy price of the gear itself.
• Spirit Alchemy shows materials that can be promoted for profit using spirit shards, as well as special mystic forge recipes that might be profitable. The site takes into account the cost of buying up everything.
• Smart Find is designed to find all items that are most likely to yield profit based on various factors.
• Snatch It looks for profitable listings in which you can insta-buy items and flip them immediately for theoretical profit (be warned: some of the items on the list don’t sell quickly).
• Snipe It is a bulk version of the same idea, with more precise parameters.

Pick any one of the above tools and try it out and see how it works for you. If you don’t like it, switch to another until you find a niche that works for you.

Here’s my standard caveat about making money on the TP: it’s really easy for some of us to make small profits; a few of us find it trivial to make huge profits. However, the bulk of the community finds it dull, complicated, or tedious to get to that point. I’ve shown probably a few dozen people how they can make “easy” money on the TP and of those, only 2-3 were interested enough to keep doing it for more than a week or two.

There aren’t any secrets in the techniques. It’s not hard or that time consuming to do the research. A lot of people just don’t like it, in the same way that some people prefer dungeon running over silverwaste chest farming or chasing world bosses to either, even though one of the three is far more lucrative.

PS there are a lot of other useful sites besides shinies; that just happens to be my favorite to share because the tools are easy to use and the UI is, well, shiny. I hope that other respondents to your question will share their own preferences.

the best way to make money on the TP is to never buy anything on it except a few mats. turn your karma into recipes and craft time gated or popular items. Plant food, ascended mats, and zerker gear all turns a profit over selling individual components.

and always post a listing. never sell immediately unless the difference is less than 10% in the profit.