Marketboard insanity

So, for the people saying just buy out and reprice higher, here's a small tip from someone who makes effort to control markets: if someone wants to crash a market, they can and they will. End of story. You buy out my cheap item? I'll put up another at the same price. Do this a few dozen times and guess who wins? I can tell you it's not the person who now has a few dozen items they need to get rid of.

It's great for the consumers, of course, but it makes for an absolutely miserable environment for crafters (who don't have the capital or patience to play the undercut war).

I undercut, and if you're crying about 400k+ sales... you really need a reality check. Free market is free =3.

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

So, for the people saying just buy out and reprice higher, here's a small tip from someone who makes effort to control markets: if someone wants to crash a market, they can and they will. End of story. You buy out my cheap item? I'll put up another at the same price. Do this a few dozen times and guess who wins? I can tell you it's not the person who now has a few dozen items they need to get rid of.

It's great for the consumers, of course, but it makes for an absolutely miserable environment for crafters (who don't have the capital or patience to play the undercut war).

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If someone have so many supply for much lower price, why that item could be listed for higher by you?

No offence, just want to mention, usually the sellers should have better sense than buyers how hard to obtian the listing item.
Market board is a place for trading. Players can just trade for profit, if someone says something is selling seriously below its value, why not buy it first?
If he can't make profit by this trade, I guess possibly that item is not really selling below its value seriously. ^^;

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

If someone have so many supply for much lower price, why that item could be listed for higher by you?

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It can't, which is my point.

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Originally Posted by Lyrinn

It can't, which is my point.

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Thanks, got yout point.
In some cases, I think the "profit" for crafting is the 3000craft main tool... so that's why I often find crafting product selling cheaper than the mats. ^^;

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Originally Posted by Teirshin

Way to go reading the thread and paying attention before criticizing, but I guess its easier to just bitch people out. :rolleyes:

And for those who said the screenshot was useless without the info on what sales had been made and for how much, I made a reply with that info as well.. if you look on page 1....

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That's still not particularly informative, though, since you still didn't name the item or give the dates of those 1.4 million sales versus the date you were looking at the market listing. If anything, if there's only been three sales so far the real culprit of this price-drop may be all the crafters that rushed in to flood a market that didn't have a very strong demand.