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Farming not covered, since it requires actual effort


Number 1.

Voting in Runway.

Under the tab Games, bottom right corner. Is a thing called runway, people with themed avatars trying to win a daily competition.
By voting on this, for 8 days in a row you get a so called "Chirpette Bundle"
Which is a free 8-10ish bil every 8 days, for taking 1minute a day to vote.
(Funnily enough, opening that and selling the [KINDRED] Ally Plus (100%) 10 Pack (Any) Said bundle contains by itself, gives on average 1bil more)


Number 2.

In the game called Lake Kindred

Having any "kins" in your party will allow you to go visit them every 24h and collect a random gift, if you check up on them on the camp site.

As the gifts are random, they can be good, they can be bad.
The top 2 gifts you can get from checking in on them and claiming gifts are:

A Touch Of EVERYTHING
Box containing 20 smaller random boxes, always fun to open.

Big ol' BBQ
Another random item generator. This one only gives you 1 item, however the value can be between 2-70bil from my experience. Or just sell the BBQ on the marketplace for about 10-12bil.

In order to maximize your chances, have a group of 5 kins in your party at all times. (can buy some super cheap ones on the marketplace easily)
P.S The timer is at 24h after you claim the gifts, trying to trick it by switching out kins wont work. You will just reset the timer again.


Number 3.

Bulletin Board


If you go to the main site, gaiaonline.com
And check on the right side of the screen. You will see something called "Bulletin board"

There's some threads and some advertisment for new items, the banner looking ones. If you see like small candy piece on it, blue,red,cyan,black,yellow etc.
Press on it, and scroll down to the bottom of the thing that shows up and press "Redeem". That will give you some million golds, buuuut also actually Gaia cash quite often. Sure it's not a lot ,something like 1-4 gc per banner. But if you keep doing it there's a little bit of gaia cash trickling in anyways.
At the time of writing this GCash 200 were valued at 89bil. Just something to keep in mind, if you keep saving up.


Number 4.

Daily Prize


First off let's start off with saying it's required you have turned on platinum as your currency for this to work.
You will find you currency setting in account preferences, left side towards the end of "General settings"

The Daily Prize machine will be found in all big category tabs, on the right side.

Just press it, hope for a good cash reward and repeat. Seems to be a an upper limit of around 700-900plat / day ,not limited to only the Daily prize but other functions on this site that you get a reward for doing.

You might get more than a few weird items from doing this, but it's free and not much work required.
Should be noted, the amount of plat you get from a red machine, is MUCH much lower than a yellow.


Number 5.
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Not currently working properly so will add this at a later time.

Semi work

Now the following 2 ways could be classified as semi work.
Kinda easy, but requires a bit of work or patience from you.

Number 6.

Kin leveling up.

Sorry in advance for bringing in Lake kindred once more.
There's a level up with a reward system for the pets in lake kindred that you can use soley for profit making.
This requires that you 1. Find a good pet & buy it from the market at lvl 1 or the desired level. 2. Level it up using the "Ally plus potions" mentioned previously. (or manually but let's face it, that's just work then)
Requires a bit of research, and some cross checking with the marketplace values of the individual items & some luck.
Using the Lake kindred Wiki to search the kin, and research the individual items.

As an example: The kin Florette At level 10 will give this item Kindred Florette
At one point in time you could purchase the kin if lucky for 180-250bil, use 10 Ally plus 100% potions (roughly 10bil value) and get in return an item worth between 500-700bil. Selling both the lvl 10 kin and item for about 500+ bil in pure personal profit.
(Nowdays it's very much an uncertain kin if you will get the investment back or not, just how the market goes.)


Number 7.

Bundles

This could technically be classified as MP trading, buying items for cheap and selling for a higher price. However key difference is that sometimes you can purchase a bundle, containing several items. Sold cheaper than the individual items value.
There's lots of bundles you can do this with, find a few favorites and keep them hidden on your wish list is a suggestion

As an example:The Lotus and Shadow Bundle Usually fetch about 35 Bil on the market.
The items contained within it: Night's Shadow 25-40 ish bil, Evening Lotus 5-ish bil, and Akika's Garden 25-60-ish bil. Giving a total of a minimum profit (at the time) at 15 bil, up to about 70.
For the effort of unpacking and reselling the items.
(As previous way, the example might get outdated due to market changing.)
Always always double check items prices, and use the monthly/yearly graph to best get a good estimate of a price.
The "current" average price can be faulty


If you have any questions or other suggestions be sure to leave a reply.
And as always, have a wonderful day