Is it even possible to make money anymore?

people don't go on zruns for buyers anymore. It;s more people go on zruns and karma the helms and sell them. I can't go on zruns anymore cause of the damn vista/win7 thing (yes even when i do change graphics, i still dc). I don't have the NX for anything right now. I got my gach tickets, but i think i'll hold them till next patch to see if the stupid expiring gach crap is gone (i.e. the shoulder equips that expire in 3 months). I'd try merchanting with NX, but the tax rate made it impossible to really sell etcs anymore (before people could sell 200 etcs for exchange quest or 200 ores for like 100 nx minimum, meaning anyone could sell normal things and people would buy them. Now people have to go for high profile items in order to get any decent sort of profit (i.e. atk wgs and scrolled items). And to fund that sort of work, one needs to have money in the first place, meso wise, meaning you'd need to spend hours in FM spamming "S> ________ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@". It's a never ending cycle. so it's either NX--> mesos-->nx--> mesos. OR mesos--> nx--> mesos--> nx. It's all a matter of which you have more of and how you sell and buy things. You could sell NX for mesos (more direct profit; i know scania's nx:mesos is somewhere from 1:15m to 1:18m).

All merchanting in-game, like in real life, require massive amounts of patience and ALWAYS needs investments.