I've made a small profit from selling compasses. I make them for about
3pp, better now with my +17 charisma gear I have, and sell them for 5pp
each. This is the auction line I have found works the best:

"Selling TINKERED compass, 5pp, great if you have poor sense heading, 100%
success rate, don't be fooled by cheap knock-off imports, buy direct from
the artisan, support the trades!"

I think the last bit "support the trades" helps a bit since I have sold 2
to people with good sense heading but buy trade items just to provide support.

I have sold only 10 so far, so I guess I've made 20pp, not much, but better
than losing money. Just sucks that you don't get experience from them.

At 03:42 PM 07/23/1999 -0500, you wrote:

>From: "Kendera the Enchantress" <kendera_@...>
>
>Yikes! It costs approx. 2pp to make a flameless lantern, and THIS is the
>item used to increase skill??
>How many lanterns does it take to increase 1 point? This sounds extremely
>expensive to me.
>I eventually want to make Mechanized Lockpicks, but it sounds like this is
>gonna be way too costly. Any profit in tinkering at all?
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Kreena Nimbletoes
>14th lvl Fighter ;)
>Prexus
>
>>Making flameless lanterns is the way to go to gain skill, a warning though
>>one of the patches sort of messed with tinkering where you will rarely gain
>>skill points now. I don't know if this has been changed.
>>
>>The only place to buy tinkering components is in Steamfont.
>>
>>-Luke