Everyone else (that's an exaggeration. A LOT of people) will tell you the Affair of the Box is the best means of Echo's... but I don't trust it... there is something about a quality that can be pushed into the thousands that I find suspicious.

How many of an item is a good stockpile, do you think? Generally speaking, I mean. A number above which it's mostly safe to sell surplus? Put another way, what's the maximum amount of an item that should be kept on hand at all times for emergencies or opportunity cards? Assuming opinions would differ on this, but surely there's a point where stockpiling is simply hoarding and that extra could and should be converted to echoes?

Taleria wrote:

Assuming opinions would differ on this, but surely there's a point where stockpiling is simply hoarding and that extra could and should be converted to echoes?

Apparently there are storylets that will steal all of your Echoes (or at least enough to be all of the ones people have had), so why hoard Echoes instead of hoarding potentially useful resources? Suddenly there might be a card with an option that requires 2000 x Drop of Prisoner's Honey, and then it might be convenient to have some of that. (Don't take this as a recommendation to play that option. Investor beware!)

Another example is this year's Feast of the Exceptional Rose, where there were options to send gifts that cost 10-30 Echoes' worth of items such as Cryptic Clues, Appalling Secrets, Intriguing Gossip, Inklings of Identity and Drops of Prisoner's Honey. So the more you'd been hoarding, the more gifts you would've been able to send without having to grind for items.

Only storylet that steals all your pence is the grand hunt of the devils.

The point in selling items would be if you're saving up for something and enjoy having an easier way of seeing how close you are without counting up the value of all your items every few actions.

javascript: (function(){$.fn.reduce = [].reduce;var nosale = ["Semiotic Monocle", "Gloam-Foam", "Snuffer's Face", "Sneak-Thief's Mask", "Devilish Fedora", "Fecund Amber Tiara", "Smock of Four Thousand Three Hundred and Eight Pockets", "Moderately Co-operative Clothes Colony", "Academic Gown", "Ratskin Suit", "Far Khanate Lacquered Armour", "Exquisite Ivory Gown", "Sumptuous Dandy's Outfit", "Insatiable Glove", "Lenguals", "Spiderchitin Gauntlets", "Twelve-carat Diamond Ring", "Ratwork Watch", "Poison-tipped Umbrella", "Infernal Sharpshooter's Rifle", "Irresistible Drum", "Forgotten Spidersilk Slippers", "Kingscale Boots", "Vakeskin Boots", "Masterwork Dancing Slippers", "Overgoat", "Haunted-looking Dog", "Salt Weasel", "Bifurcated Owl", "Rattus Faber Bandit-Chief", "Rubbery Associate", "Rubbery Conspirator", "Silent Soul"];alert($("li.shop-item").reduce(function(accumulator, item) {var title = $(item).find(".item-details h6").text();var price = parseFloat( $(item).find("span.price.currency-echo").text()|| 0);price = (price > 30) ? 0: price; price = (nosale.indexOf(title.trim()) == -1) ? price: 0;var quantity = parseInt($(item).find("div.item-quantity").text() || 0);var worth = price * quantity;return accumulator + worth;}, 0) + parseFloat($(".you_lhs span.currency-echo").text()))})();

i tried that javascript. but all it does is return how many echos i currently have. do i have to be in london, or somewhere where the bazaar is available??

I am thinking is that I should keep writing books and selling em since this seemed like the best way to make money but it takes so much time. is it a good method or is there a simpler and faster method? thanks for your input

However, it is good for, eg, levelling a secondary sacrificial character you plan to force to seek Mr Eaten's Name. *fondly regards Brother Weft with an enigmatic smile and whispers "Soon... soon."*