It's definitely not instant I know that. I've been buying ashes, 10k at a time. And each time I get 10k, and set up another trade to get another 10k, I find for a while I get no sales at all. But once I do start getting sales, I get the 10k pretty quickly. @gun_hippy, well I don't think there's a wait period when you have a "trade" set-up already. I know when I was collecting the ashes I bought, I would find that I get more ashes as soon as I collected some.