Making money in Fable: Has nobody else seen this?

I am reluctant to believe that I'm the first person to find this. It was way too obvious once I saw it.

For those of you who don't know, Fable is a very re-playable game which came out on XBox and later on PC with the 'lost chapters' edition. I'm sure you've noticed that for every video game out there you can find a complete written walkthrough of how to achieve all the various goals in the game. There are instructions for how to make money in the game of Fable, most of them involving the buying and selling of a house. This is fine, but takes much more time than the method I found. Again, I can't understand why this method isn't the most recommended. It certainly takes less startup capital than buying and selling a house.

The method is simple. When you meet traders, buy out all they have of at least one item, afterwards, sell it all back to them. Do this in single transactions, no use selling it back in stacks of ten, and do it a few times, buying anything you can buy his entire stock of.

Obviously this doesn't work with weapons, armor, anything you can have only one of. It's best to do this with produce, gifts, and potions. It may help to sell him all you have of that item first, but if you don't it shouldn't matter. Once you've cleaned him out of at least one item, sell it back to him. Now you're probably thinking you should've seen this before. They tell you all the time in the game you can make money buying and selling between the shops, but you don't have to go to a different shop. The traders and shop keepers sell things for a lower price when they have a lot, and buy them for a higher price when they don't have any. There may be a lower limit threshold in the math where buying, say, 20 cider crates and selling them back won't be profitable, but the game tells you how much you're making on the sell-back.

If the transaction doesn't show a profit, there's two possible reasons. First reason: if you bought them all at regular price earlier and now you want to sell, you may not have any profit margin at all. If you sell them to the trader and buy them all back at his "I have so many of these" price, the game will show you a better profit when you go to sell them again.

In all cases, wether you've made money on that transaction or not, buy the entire stock of whichever items you're trading, and buy as much as you can while still being able to meet your needs. The reason is you want to bulk up your inventory so you can profit more each time. The concept should now be simple, but I'll sketch it out in loose terms. You meet a trader and he has 50 cider crates, you buy all of them for 20g each. You then sell him 50 cider crates at 30g each. When he has none they're worth 30, when he has 50 they're worth 20. So you do this until you get bored, but at the end you walk out with 100g extra, plus the 50 cider crates. Later you meet another trader, he has 30 cider crates. you sell him your 50 for 25g each. Then you buy all of them for 15g each, then you sell them backto him for 30g each. Not only do you profit more because you're making Xg on each item, you make more near-exponentially because the traders buying price when he has none in stock stays the same, while his selling price is relative to the number that he has in stock. None of this is relative to the number you are buying or selling, it's all relative to how many he has in stock.

So, buy all of at least one item, sell it back, repeat if it shows a profit, if not don't worry, just get more inventory to work with and try again. Once it's profitable, it snowballs each time you get more inventory, making the money-making more profitable and efficient each time. Simple enough? Why haven't I seen this posted anywhere else?

so so funny

This is a conversation that my friend matt had with a nicholas, apparently from nashville, who thought he was a different matt

Matt:
I don't know you
Why do you keep sending me emails?

Nicholas:
stop playing, i'm coming to town friday

Matt:
lol
you've gotta be kidding me
what's your phone number?

Nicholas:
relax, i'll call you when i'm out of class

Matt:
lol
yeah you do that

Nicholas:
i don't know why you are laughing
where are we picking up our tuxes?

Matt:
You are either joking or you have some sort of mental handicap
I don't know any other way to explain this to you...

Nicholas:
that's not funny

Matt:
who do you think I am?

Nicholas:
matt

Matt:
and where do I live

Nicholas:
i'm in your wedding this weekend

Matt:
where

Nicholas:
what's wrong with you?

Matt:
where
where do I live

Nicholas:
i don't htink its funny
hold on

Matt:
Ok you are f*ing with me lol
Nobody is this stupid

Nicholas:
you never curse
why are you cursing

Matt:
lol
this is fun man
but...
at some point we'll have to end this game

Nicholas:
matt be sure to invite that slut catherine to the wedding
i need my knob polished

Matt:
oh ok I'll do that
I'll inivite little joey from around the way too
you remember little joey, that crazy little bastard
always swingin at the fences

Nicholas:
stop messing with me
where are we picking up our tuxes

Matt:
At Ed's Tux
I've got a deal worked out due to my mob connections

Nicholas:
whatever

Matt:
I've decided to call the wedding off

Nicholas:
why

Matt:
well your moms a nice lady and all but its just not working out

Nicholas:
my mom's dead, you know that

Matt:
well that's why its not working out

Nicholas:
no funny
not

Matt:
what's your phone number we'll talk about it on the phone
I've lost it ;)

Nicholas:
i'll call you after i get out of class

Matt:
lol
so you know this isn't the right matt right?
that's the only thing I can assume, not that this isn't fun

Nicholas:
what?

Matt:
that isn't funny
lol

Nicholas:
what do you mean?

Matt:
I know there is only one matt in the world
so I must be using a fake name
trying to steal his thunder

Nicholas:
yeah, you're getting married this weekend

Matt:
lol
where am I getting married
in what state?

Nicholas:
tn of course

Matt:
tennessee?

Nicholas:
yes
of course

Matt:
yeah of course
well that explains a lot

Nicholas:
what does that mean?

Matt:
Hell maybe you should ask me after class

Nicholas:
alright, no problem
what's your problem lately

Matt:
I hate freedom

Nicholas:
that's why your getting married?

Matt:
yes
but we're thinking of throwing you in the mix, how does that sound?

Nicholas:
does sarah know?

Matt:
it was her idea

Nicholas:
cause she's hot i'd love to tag it
what about bringing catherine into the picture

Matt:
sure
we'll all go pick up our tuxs maybe go to a kkk rally and drive around memphis in our pickup trucks for a while
then we'll go have sex with my wife and your sister
hell my sister too why not

Nicholas:
it's in nashville
but yeah sounds good to me

Matt:
oh right nashville

Nicholas:
maybe we could have a thing with the cake. just like i dive into it and catherine sarah and you follow me

Matt:
and your sister

Nicholas:
you dumbass i don't have a sister

Matt:
and we'll dig up your dead mom too

Nicholas:
also not funny
f* you for saying that

Matt:
I guess we can't be friends any more Nicholas

that's when he went offline lol