Albion Online Black Market flips guide
City buy → Black Market sell: tax, transport risk, freshness, and when thin books erase the edge.
What a BM flip is
Buy gear or consumables in a royal city (or Brecilien), haul to the Black Market, and sell. Margin is BM sell revenue after tax minus buy cost and any realistic transport loss. Do not treat BM sells as if they were royal-city asks.
Use the dedicated desk
Open the Black Market flips desk (Pro). It ranks city → BM routes with live AODP prices. City-to-city spreads belong on the flip scanner (Scout) instead.
Freshness and liquidity
A high BM sample with no recent volume is often a ghost. Prefer recent ages on both sides, realistic stack sizes, and skip routes where either book looks thin. Cross-check suspects in the market browser.
Transport risk
Silver on the road is not free. Size hauls to what you can afford to lose, prefer safer corridors when margins are small, and log outcomes in a session so ghost edges do not become habit.
Practice loop
Shortlist on BM flips → verify freshness on market browse → move a small test stack → only scale when fills match the sample. For specialty RRR crafts feeding BM demand, see the focus & RRR guide.
Free alternative: market browser