How to Earn Gaia Gold the Easy Way on GaiaOnline.Com

Gaiaonline.com is a website that features a virtual currency called Gaia Gold. There is also an accompanying currency called Gaia Cash that can be purchased with United States Dollars and turned into Gaia Gold. Gaia Gold cannot be turned back into real cash. There are many methods of generating gold on Gaiaonline.com such as participating in their on-line message boards, surfing the website and interacting with other users among other things.

The problem with performing these repetitive taks is that you are limited to a set amount of gold you can earn from these tasks each day. You can get around this by having multiple accounts but it really is just tedious and can take a lot of time to generate gold by using these methods.

The best way to earn Gaia Gold on Gaiaonline.com is to play the Gaia Marketplace. You can have 10 items for sale at once on the marketplace per account. You will also be charged a 2% tax on all gold earned from sales in the marketplace. If you want to sell more than 10 items then you will need to have extra Gaiaonline.com accounts to sell these items.

First off, one of the main ways to get good deals is simply just to watch for them. Many items are sold within the first minute they are listed simply because they are listed at an incredibly low price. Opening multiple browser tabs or windows of different item pages on the marketplace and cycle through them constantly refreshing the pages will help you find these deals. Pressing the F5 key on your keyboard will refresh the current tab or window selected in your browser.

The most important tip about earning Gaia Gold in the Marketplace is speed. Speed is key in getting a good deal when purchasing items on the Gaiaonline.com Marketplace. When you see the deal of a lifetime on the Gaia Marketplace, many other people are seeing the great deal and somebody might have already beat you by a second or two and purchased it. Here are some tips to give you the speed edge over other users:

Have the browser save your password: Every Internet browser has this feature of saving your passwords and automatically entering them so you don't have to. Not having to type in your password will save you the precious seconds needed to buy an item while others are spending time typing in their password.

Use a fast browser: Currently the fastest browser available is Google Chrome. It is faster than all of the competition out there including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. This will give you the edge over people using slower browsers. Google Chrome is also a free download so there is no reason you should not be using it.

Disable P2P and file-sharing programs: These programs will slow down your Internet connection and make Gaia Online load slower.

Auctions: The advantage to auctions is that if you sell an item in demand, people will generally pay more than the market price. Now there are some reasons to this: Some people get caught up in bidding and just want to "win". Some people bid outrageous prices in an attempt to boost the Average Buy Price.

Always start auctions at 0 gold, the reasoning behind this is that you have more action on the auction because people think that they can get a good deal due to the starting price. This actually has the reverse effect of the item selling higher than it does it in the marketplace. Set an increment that's a multiple of 5. I usually set my bidding increment at 5, 25, 50 and 100 depending on the item I am selling. Too low of an increment for a particular item might mean that your item might fetch less than the market price, too high of an increment might discourse bidders who think that they can get a good deal.

Avoid running auctions for 14 days. It makes no sense to set an auction for 14 days because most of the bidding occurs when the auction is first put up and when it closes. Also you can only auction so many items and time is gold! It it also beneficial running short auctions because people are not going to make a note of when your auction ends later in the week and then login to bid at the last minute the auction is ending to get a good price. If you set a short auction that only lasts an hour or two, most people on-line will be notified that they have been outbid and you have a bidding war.

Listing Items: Avoid selling an item as a "bid and buy" which will offer the item for sale and auction it off simultaneously. You should only sell items as straight auctions or buy-only. The reasoning behind this is that that you cannot pull an item from the marketplace if you are also auctioning it unless it's pulled within the first 5 minutes. If you set a "bid and buy" listing in the marketplace for 14 days then you would have to wait a whole 2 weeks instead of being able to pull the listing down and lowering the price if it is not selling.

When listing items on the Gaia Marketplace always take into account the prices that other people have set. If you feel like selling an item very quick then price it 1 Gaia Gold lower than the lowest price on the Marketplace. Also ending your prices in 9's can make an item an easier sell. If you price an item at 1,999 Gaia Gold instead of 2,000 Gaia gold you are not going to lose that 1 Gaia Gold. The reason behind this is the 2% tax that the Marketplace charges that was mentioned before, that 1 gold is going to be taken away as a closing auction fee. You will pay less tax if you end your prices in 9's instead of 0's.