FUT 15 Trading Guide #3: Price Fixing

Any company dreams about being able to win against the concurrence, even if in order to do that it would be necessary to buy the other company, so that they can rule the market. This means that the consumers will not be the ones to define the prices of the products any more. The price will now be fixed by the seller, which naturally implies very considerable profit possibilities.

The Price Fixing, also known as monopoly, is considered cheating by some players but the truth is that it is a good marketing strategy. It is one of the most advanced trading techniques in FIFA 15 Ultimate Team. It consists in acquiring a big quantity of the same card so you can fix its price on the market and get high profits. It's not an easy method, even because it implies much availability and a big budget, but the profits can be fantastic.

To apply this method, you should know the market very well and choose the niche which you will attack. Focus preferentially on a single card. Try to buy all of them on the market except those which are at an unrealistically high price. After buying almost all the cards, store them for at least a few hours. This will make the market feel the lack of these letters and players will be willing to pay a good price for them.

The next step is to monetize your investment. You can put the cards on sale at the price you want. As you hold almost every card, you can set your price. Obviously if you are too ambitious, you may not find anyone who will pay for them. As the goal is to be the only holder of that card, you should continue to buy it even after starting its sale. In that case, buy all the cards that are on sale at a lower price than the one you set.

The Price Fixing is very popular to the FIFA 15 Ultimate Team players. However, due to its complexity, it is very rarely applied. Please read carefully our tips in order to have success with this method:

> You don't need to buy all the cards

Many Price Fixing beginners think that in order to set the price, they need to buy all the cards. This is not true.

If you are applying the method to a particular card, you do not need to buy the cards that have a higher price that the one you have set.

Imagine, for example, that you are buying all Serie A Manager cards. If your goal is to set the price at x coins, then all the cards are on the market at a higher price are not relevant to you because they will not give you profits and they will not disturb your plan.

> Store the largest possible number of cards

One of the Price Fixing problems has to do with where to store all that cards. The most common solutions are:

– To make Price Fixing in partnership with other players;

– To acquire in the EAS FC catalogue the items that increase the size of the transfer list and transfer targets;

– To use other accounts to temporarily store cards (we do not recommend this trick because we believe it is lack of fair play and because you will need to pay 5% taxes);

> Choose the cards well that you will set the price of

Most of the players choose the wrong cards to make Price Fixing. They do that because they do not realize that the FUT 15 market works like a real market.

The fewer cards there in the auctions, the easier it will be to set a high price.

To choose gold cards or very popular cards is a bad strategy. They are continually being released in packs and you will have great difficulty in monitor them and buy them all.

If you have enough budget, the ideal target for Price Fixing are the In Form cards. They are released in packages for a very limited time, which means that it is extremely easy for you to control them and set the price you want.

> Do not sell many cards at once

When you start selling the cards that you bought, you should not place many cards in the auction at once. Remember that being rare is what makes them valuable.

Also avoid putting several cards in row for sale on the transfer market. It will become clear that you are Price Fixing, which can be proved by the name of 'Seller'. In that case, buyers will tend to give up on the cards.

Price Fixing is widely used since it allows to achieve profits that few other methods offer. Only that justifies all the work it entails.

In addition to a good knowledge of the market and a generous budget to buy all the cards that exist and that are appearing, this method requires great rigour and availability. If you get distracted for a few hours, when you come back you can find the market full of cheap cards bringing down the value of your entire stock.