TLDR: How to earn gil with cross server trading - ff14-advanced-market-search/saddlebag-with-pockets GitHub Wiki

💰 How to Earn Gold with Cross Realm Trading 🚀

Simple buy low in one realm, deposit an item in your warband bank, move it to another realm and sell high!

📺 Watch this tutorial to learn how to travel to other servers or datacenters

📺 Watch this tutorial if you're new to cross realm trading. It covers how to move items from one realm to another for trading.

📝 TL;DR: How to Make Gil with a 4-Step Process

Here are some of the top ways to use Saddlebag for FFXIV, made simple for new users:

1. 📚 Learn What to Sell and How Much to Sell It For 🔍

Use the reselling, marketshare, best deals or craftsim searches to find good items to sell or craft (if youre an omnicrafter) and determine the average price you can sell them for:

2. 🛒 Buy Low

Search for good deals on those items using the Experimental Discount Sniper, reselling search, shopping list, or best deals, then buy them if not crafting. If you are crafting, use the Discord bot price-alert to know when there are deals on your raw materials:

3. 📈 Sell High

In FFXIV you don't really need to make many alts and sell on different servers, our tools are geared towards selling on your own home server. Unlike WoW where you can make a fresh alt and start selling in 10 seconds, FFXIV requires you level to 20 and that can take time to make alts on each server. Its not really needed unless you really want to hardcore gil grind.

However if you have many alts and 2 accounts to move items between them, then you can sell anywhere! Use the export search to find the best realm with the highest population to sell any items you buy or craft.

4. 🔄 Check for Sales and Undercuts

Use our alerts or allagan tool integration to help monitor your active listings and alert you when you should relist your items or when sales are made:

flowchart LR
    Start((Start)) --> Step1[📚 Learn What to Sell and How Much to Sell It For 🔍]
    
    subgraph Step 1 Research
        Step1 --> S1A[Open Reselling, Marketshare, Best Deals, Craftsim, or Scrip Exchange]
        S1A --> S1B[Find profitable items to sell or craft]
        S1B --> S1C[Note average sale price and demand]
        S1C --> S1D[Optionally check Secret Sale Leads for niche ideas]
    end
    
    Step1 --> Step2[🛒 Buy Low]
    
    subgraph Step 2 Snipe Deals
        Step2 --> S2A[Search for underpriced listings]
        S2A --> S2B[Use Experimental Discount Sniper, Best Deals, or Shopping List]
        S2B --> S2C{Are you crafting items?}
        S2C -- Yes --> S2D[Use Discord bot price-alert for cheap raw materials]
        S2C -- No --> S2E[Buy finished items directly for resale]
    end
    
    Step2 --> Step3[📈 Sell High]
    
    subgraph Step 3 List Items
        Step3 --> S3A[Use Export Search]
        S3A --> S3B[Find the best world/DC or confirm your home server]
        S3B --> S3C[List items on retainers at target prices]
    end
    
    Step3 --> Step4[🔄 Check for Sales and Undercuts]
    
    subgraph Step 4 Monitor & Adjust
        Step4 --> S4A[Use Allagan Tools data and Discord undercut/sale alerts]
        S4A --> S4B[Check active listings for undercuts]
        S4B --> S4C[Relist items or adjust prices when needed]
        S4C --> S4D[Review Self Purchase History to see what actually sells]
    end
    
    Step4 --> End((Profit & Repeat))