Dino, Think of it this way. Lets say you sell an item at $10, and someone bought you out of it and resells it at $12, you have earned $1`0 immediately and they will only get $2 out of it. That is an enormous advantage. I used to sell the cheapest (hands down) enchanted books on the old server and people buy me out ALL the time, but I get a lot more out of it than the people who resell them. I rose from baltop 50 to around baltop 11 in 2 months.
And the point about doing more work makes no sense. You are doing the same amount of work to earn $10 always, it is just that you earn that money faster, just think of it as more demand. As long as people are buying things from you, as a shop owner, why would you care who bought it? You should be more concerned if your stuff is not selling fast enough. Also, whenever you restock, people will flock to your shop, and the people who bought you out will be out competed by your prices unless they want to keep buying you out for diminishing returns.
Furthermore, stuffs are not really getting more expensive. There will always be people competing for customers and making their prices cheaper. I still remembered a few players trying to standardize the diamond price without success in the old server when the diamond price is not fixed. They failed to raise the diamond price to where they want because of competition. As the server runs longer and the new players start to become old players, they'll start to gather the same resources and the price will be stable.
In all cases you are the one with the advantage by selling low and making people buy you out. You don't have to make a sell-all shop, stick to a little niche, sell few varieties but cheap, and you will live well in it.
And the point about doing more work makes no sense. You are doing the same amount of work to earn $10 always, it is just that you earn that money faster, just think of it as more demand. As long as people are buying things from you, as a shop owner, why would you care who bought it? You should be more concerned if your stuff is not selling fast enough. Also, whenever you restock, people will flock to your shop, and the people who bought you out will be out competed by your prices unless they want to keep buying you out for diminishing returns.
Furthermore, stuffs are not really getting more expensive. There will always be people competing for customers and making their prices cheaper. I still remembered a few players trying to standardize the diamond price without success in the old server when the diamond price is not fixed. They failed to raise the diamond price to where they want because of competition. As the server runs longer and the new players start to become old players, they'll start to gather the same resources and the price will be stable.
In all cases you are the one with the advantage by selling low and making people buy you out. You don't have to make a sell-all shop, stick to a little niche, sell few varieties but cheap, and you will live well in it.