Flea Market Deep Dive | Night raids and when to start them | Leveling Strength | EXFIL Episode 14 (An Escape From Tarkov Podcast)

A recent nighttime raid MTBTrigger and Ronal did caused a few revelations for them both - on one hand MTB realized that an early negative experience in a night raid kept him from going back for nearly 40 levels and Ronal found that the current tasks he was trying to complete were surprisingly easier in night raids versus some that he recently completed during daytime raids.

The saga of strength leveling continues.  Ronal digs in and talks about his (literal) journey across the Shoreline map to get his strength leveled.  

Deep Dive on Flea Market:  flea market basics, how the flea market works, making money using the flea market with the traders and hideout.

How it works - establishing value between players.  Early on it is best to compare what the traders will give you versus what players will pay on the flea market.

Wishlist - do you use it?  MTB talks about a strategy with the wishlist that may reduce the time it takes you to ‘complete’ your daily hideout tasks.

How to use all of the various tools and filters to your advantage when using the flea market.  Not all of them are useful, but MTB and Ronal offer various ways to think about specific functions in the flea market.  For example - you can use the minimum quantity to find underpriced items that are not at 100% quantity ( in the show MTB talks about survival kits and how he found a nice flip opportunity).

Beware ‘barter trades’ from players.  Most of the time these are put up as a scam - think about it... why would a player put up a trade for something that is a worse value for them compared to just selling it on the flea market?

Linked search and required search.  Not only are these powerful functions to help you when trying to mod guns, but they can be used to quickly learn ‘WHY’ an item is valuable by seeing the barter trades a particular item is used for.  **using required search will not show you what an item is used for in the hideout crafts**

There is always a rabbit hole and in this episode it was related to linked search - MTB and Ronal break down exactly how this function works and why it may not seem intuitive in the beginning, but it is perhaps one of the most useful tools for finding gun parts once you know how to utilize it.  The biggest challenge with linked search is knowing which gun part you should do the linked search on to find the correct modification. Often times doing a linked search on the gun itself will not give you the correct options for modding.

The final topic is how to make money in the flea market.  Worth noting is that the specific examples given in this episode worked at the time, or in the past, and won’t necessarily work again - the idea was to give the mindset behind executing a ‘market strategy’ for finding opportunities to make extra currency.  

Finding ways to make or earn currency is one thing, but don’t get so focused on the flea market that you neglect to find the areas where you are losing money.  Do you throw away matches and other low-value barter items? You could be turning those into fuel for your generator versus purchasing fuel tanks from traders/flea market.

Goodluck out there - let us know about your flea market wins and losses!

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