Why there are no middleman of ores and scrolls anymore?

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    When I was playing Maplestory like 20 years ago, you could almost always see some middle men in the free market like 24 hours a day. They were always shouting 'Buying ores', 'Buying scrolls', or 'Buying woods and screws' and you can always sell ores or scrolls you do not want to them with acceptable price.

    But in this server, to be honest, I have never seen a single middle man like this in the free market.

    Can anyone explain to me? Have I missed out something?

    Thank you very much guys.
     
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    Maybe not profitable. But I saw many rich players lowball and ask newbies to sell them items in a very low price.

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    C15rm15 ore store
     
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    NX is free so everyone just open their store when they need meso.
    ores/materials and farmable scrolls are not worth much.
    Also there are many other ways to farm money:

    low level leech 80m/hr
    skele 1 hit 150m/hr
    RG 80m+/run, or say 120m+/hr
    bossing 100~300m/hr
    multi mage farming 200m+/hr
    goby leech 1b+ per day
     
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    Could u tell me what is goby?
     
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    Too expensive.
     
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    https://royals.ms/forum/threads/insert-goby-selling-guide-2024.227666/
    Note that currently only lvl 51+ is possible for goby leech.
     
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    thats.. how middlemen trades work.
     
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    Kinda get it now. Thank you for explaining this!~
     

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