Black Market flipping: finding the flips that actually pay

Buying an item in a city and selling it to a Black Market buy order is one of the simplest ways to make silver in Albion Online. The price gaps are real, but the profit shown on a list does not tell the whole story.

The basic math

When you sell to a buy order that already exists, there is no listing fee: only the sales tax applies. It is 4% with premium and 8% without.

• Net profit = Black Market price × (1 − tax) − purchase price in the city.
• An item of equal or better quality than the order fills it: a "Good" item can fill a "Normal" order.

The three traps

Price age. Prices come from player scans (Albion Data Project). A price that is several days old may already have moved. The better the margin looks, the more you should distrust an old scan.

Daily sales. A big profit on an item the Black Market almost never buys is useless. Check how many sales happen per day before you fill your bag.

Budget. A 15% margin on a 2 million item ties up a lot of silver. Sort by profit too, not only by percentage.

Save time with Albion Overlay

The Black Market tab in Albion Overlay scans prices in six cities and the Black Market, applies the tax depending on whether you have premium, and lets you filter by price age, budget, margin and daily sales. Clicking a row copies the item name in your language, ready to paste into the in-game market search.

Tax figures are the ones seen in game in November 2026. An update may change them.