Top tips:

- For items with an abnormally high value and market demand, such as high-refined weapons, use Lions' Roars to sell them in an auction system. Offer a fair starting bid which you would be happy to accept and then take the highest bid that somebody whispers you. There are some players who rant about this a lot, but ignore them. If they're not buying - mute 'em. Just remember to be fair and NEVER be rude, it's just not healthy for the social aspect of the game.

- It is best to do a roar at double experience times. These times will always attract the highest server load (and hence, the biggest audience for you!) and because people are grinding they will not be willing to collect their items immediately. Use this to your advantage in auctioning off items, but also make sure you take down the names of all high bidders because it isn't uncommon for some jerks to bid high and log-off at the end of double experience because they don't want to buy the item after all. Don't waste your time on retribution on these idiots, either add them to your KOS list or tell them to buzz off next time they answer your roars (or both!)

- Never fill your stand up with items that are similar or the same as this minimises the appeal your stand will have to potential buyers. Always try to keep a variety of items up on sale at any given time to ensure that the game's broad demographic according to time will be taken advantage of. The ONLY exception of this rule is, of course, Blood Essence which is likely to sell a lot quicker than most other items in the game. I managed to sell 80 blood essence in just 3 hours one weekday morning by filling my stand up with it in different denominations (sets of 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1) all at the highest reasonable price on the server.

- Stay as aware of market prices as you possibly can. It doesn't take long to scout the other stands in Hefei and it will only serve you in good stead in the long-run.

- Stockpile Blood Essence. This might sound a little strange, but it is a good idea. You may remember I said I sold 80 BE in one morning, this was because I kept all the BE I looted in storage instead of selling it as I got it. This is because blood essence has a highly volatile price as rises quicker than any other good, so by storing it all up for four weeks, you may well get an extra 50,000 9 dragons gold per BE than you would have done if you had sold as and when you got it. In my case, BE was around 350,000 9 dragons gold when I started making money and by the time I sold it, I secured 450,000 9 dragons gold PER BE making a gain of 100,000 per BE (or 8 MILLION 9 dragons gold overall!)

- Scout for items that are selling well below their average market price. Look out for newbies underpricing their items so that you can resell them for profit. However, if you do this, be aware that such items may be underpriced for a reason (i.e. nobody is buying them!)

- Make use of Wan Daye's collection lists if possible. You might be able to sell a set of five level 4 elixirs for a few million each, but if you turned them into a Wan Daye weapon, would you get more 9 dragons gold? Work it out and be smart with such opportunities.

- Luck in CoC is a fickle thing. Sometimes I found it helped me to get out for half an hour and then go back inside or log-off for an hour or two. I don't know if your luck is 'reset' when you leave or log-out of CoC, but sometimes it seemed to work for me.