Hi guys,
I need more and more material to expand my silo and my barn these days so i'm getting serious into wheating
I hesitate to sell my wheat for 10 (some extra money I can use) or for 1 (takes more time to lower it from 10 to 1 everytime but it is supposed to sell faster)
Is it really worth it (timewise) to sell my wheat for 1 ? 5 maybe ?
NB : I don't have much friends on my hay day facebook account so I count on ads (wheat that I place at the end of my shop)
Thanks !
I found selling wheat for 1 coin made it disappear much faster. I've heard selling it for 10 coin makes the wheat sell faster also.
Even though I sold wheat for cheap, it still didn't sell fast enough to keep up completely with my wheating pace. There were times when I'd used up as much wheat as I could by filling up slots for bread, chicken feed, etc, and I still had to pause wheating because my silo was too full.
If you can't push wheat out of your farm fast enough, then there's an opportunity cost there. Your wheating is not going to be as productive, while you're waiting for that wheat to move. In the time, you're waiting for your RSS stalls to empty or for a visitor to clear out your silo, you could've wheated even more and gotten more bonus drops. I don't know if getting 360 vs. 100 coins or 10 coins on a batch of 100 wheat is worth it if you count what you're giving up in lost time.
Are you selling some of your bonus drops - like the expansion materials we all get too much of? Selling a few extra bonus drops is a much more efficient and profitable way to make coin vs. waiting for someone to buy full-price wheat.
In any case, just try it yourself. Experiment and see how different wheat prices work for you.
It depends how much space you have and how you can maximize your time spent wheating without your silo getting full. A lot of buyers would rather search for the wheat worth 1 coin because they know a lot of people sell that, so if you sell it at 10 coins it's definitely going to sell a lot slower than 1 coin.
It's been a while, but my recollection is that it's not much faster, definitely worth the frustration level that I experienced for taking the time to dial them down to 1. Of course everybody gets frustrated differently. For me selling at 1 was really more of an act of desperation, for when the silo was at 100% and the next crop already ripe.
Eventually I developed a feel for when to switch to carrots. Sell both wheat and carrots at default price. Normally do wheat, switch to carrots when the buyers are not keeping up with production.
At some point your silo gets large enough that you can accumulate wheat until a visitor walks up the driveway to buy it. I frequently get about 2500 wheat and then a visitor will buy 1200, then 600, etc. I don't normally dump to the shop any more, unless I'm having a run of bad luck and the visitors aren't cooperating. Hopefully at 5000 that won't happen any more either. I _still_ use carrots as my backup crop, though, as it's nice to have a second-most-common crop to dump on visitors when they ask for that, too.
At the moment there is a lot of full price wheat in the DD so I suppose any reduction in price will help. I sell for one coin and often the whole RSS is emptied within seconds of placing the ad. I've never tried selling for default price so can't tell you if there's a difference.
I used to wheat, but found it hard to get rid of (lots of wheat for sale in the paper). I switched to corn and sell it at 20 coins, which is the default price. I find it easier to sell quickly and like the fact that I don't have to manually adjust the price down each time. Just a suggestion if you want to try it.
One other thing to take into consideration is the time you are playing, it makes a huge difference.
I did sell at 1 coin for a while because it's a bit faster, but it's SO boring & frustrating.
If I was you I'd just do it at 10 coins, if it gets 'stuck' go & get a drink, take a shower, whatever and by the time you come back it should be clear, if not ask a hoodie or friend to buy it up & plant some carrots instead.
It is amazing when your silo gets big enough that the visitors buying it generally means you don't need to sell it in your RSS.
I answered from the perspective of a seller before. Here's the other perspective...
In spite of tons of wheat I occasionally run out (or carrots, or corn, or...). Basically just not paying attention, use/sell the last bit, and :facepalm:. Then I need to buy. When I am in this situation, I open the DD, and I buy. If there are two ads for wheat, one for 1 and the other for 10, then I'll go to the 1. But when I run out of wheat then things on the farm are backed up, and I'm impatient, and wheat is cheap, so if I don't see an ad for 1 then I'll buy at 10. I probably won't even turn to the next page.
Ditto for 10 vs 36: I'll go to the 10 if it's there, otherwise 36.
Obviously I'm just speaking for me. But if other people do it the same way, then... I think you can figure that out.
This is all anecdotal on my part, but:
Normally I can't be bothered to tick down the price button, and just dump it in the store. It seems to move fine with an ad every five minutes and rarely builds up too much, BUT I also have a huge silo.
I don't harvest wheat to make money, there are better ways to do that. If cash is what you need, Wheating is a bad way to get it. Just concentrate on getting the wheat out of your shop so you can get it out of your silo and harvest more.
For my part, when I buy wheat, I don't look at the price. I buy the first wheat I see, and I buy as much as I need and then I stop. I have way too much extra money as it is, and definitely don't want to flip back and forth looking for wheat on sale. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
On the flip side, if you are going to wheat consistently for a while anyway, then you have 2 minutes to kill in between harvests. So at that point, you might as well spend the time ticking up the prices?
also remember that you can turn some of the wheat into Chicken Feed (and in turn eggs), and Bread, both of which will DEFINITELY sell immediately at full price.
tl;dr - Just do whatever works for you.
Selling it to Tilly and the gang of farm visitors is the fastest way to get rid of it. If it's the largest item in your silo, they will eventually ask for it.
One the the other hand, I love people who sell for one coin and it's the only wheat I buy ... and I buy it to sell to Tilly and the gang. ;)