Oh I bought 229 cokes.

[Kyana]

To buy 229 coke you need 572500 Grand Company Seals.

Let's say you're very lucky and get 29 as drops from dungeons, you'd still need 500000 GCS.
That's ~590 darklight items you have to deliver, or ~2500 FATEs.
It also means you fill your GCS cap 10 times, which takes some time, no matter how you look at it.

The question is, why would someone buy coke and store it, just to sell all of it at a later time for ~50% of what seems to be the normal price?
Makes no sense to me, but I'm always careful around retainers who sell large quantities of expensive/rare items.
Not saying it's not possible, but the chance of supporting a bot or RMT is high in such cases.

[Ruddi]

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I also think that the 343,500g + taxes I spend on them was just so little money compared to what I can make of it and the work for such little amount of money seams crazy, but then again I am not RMT nor know if it was one who sold them.

I can turn the coke to 1,5 mill'ish and i assume so could a RMT if they had the skills.

[givemeraptors]

To buy 229 coke you need 572500 Grand Company Seals.

Let's say you're very lucky and get 29 as drops from dungeons, you'd still need 500000 GCS.
That's ~590 darklight items you have to deliver, or ~2500 FATEs.
It also means you fill your GCS cap 10 times, which takes some time, no matter how you look at it.

The question is, why would someone buy coke and store it, just to sell all of it at a later time for ~50% of what seems to be the normal price?
Makes no sense to me, but I'm always careful around retainers who sell large quantities of expensive/rare items.
Not saying it's not possible, but the chance of supporting a bot or RMT is high in such cases.

I know some crafting FCs manage stuff like this through retainers.
I don't know. It does sound pretty shady.
Wish there was a way to tell =/

[HEC]

To buy 229 coke you need 572500 Grand Company Seals.
...

Or it could be simply some larger FC collecting donations from their members in cokes and then one put the whole amount on sale. In such case though they might have do a bit better research about the prices unless indeed they needed the gil for some urgent purchase ...