Online store prices are outrageously high!

[Jojoya]

The only kind of helpful posts you'd accept would be people agreeing with you. You haven't acknowledged any other post proving this isn't overpriced.

Nothing has been proven on either side because "overpriced" subjective in the long run. What's a good value to me isn't necessarily a good value to you. What we both might agree is a good value may not be a good value to JamieRose. It comes down to how much we personally value an item and what our options are for obtaining similar items from other sources.

If someone doesn't like the price, they shouldn't buy. The world isn't going to come to a crashing halt because someone didn't buy something they never needed.

It's amazing how many people that live in societies driven by making money get upset when businesses want to make money.

[linayar]

Nothing has been proven on either side because "overpriced" subjective in the long run.

Of course it's subjective to each individual potential buyers, but if enough people think it's overpriced, then there will be an effect on the market as there won't be enough people buying. So it's objective to say that enough people don't think it's overpriced and that's proven by the fact that the online store continues to release new items for sale at the prices they offer.

[JTF-Taru]

You could say people have a negative view of starbucks prices and i would agree

*A company can remain in business and people can say that something is overpriced. Sure.

You've spent goodness knows how many posts denying the above – now after repeatedly asking you, you finally acknowledge these things? Wouldn't it have saved so much time and space just to say this in the first place?

Saying "this is overpriced" and then BUYING it.. is admitting to yourself that it's worth the cost. If it really wasn't you wouldn't buy the thing. You don't NEED it, it's not essential in any way even to gameplay. No matter what people say, you talk with your wallet. Nobody actually buys something non-essential that they really believe is overpriced.

Out of the giant wall of text you wrote, 95% of it was just the same copy and paste untruths and denials as before. So for this I just refer you to the answers I have already given.

However this specific comment above I felt was worth quoting here and replying to.

You're now openly declaring that:

“Nobody actually buys something non-essential that they really believe is overpriced.”

Really? Because you have such a person here – me. Only the other day I bought something utterly non essential thinking it was over-priced. Yet you're telling me to my face what I think and how I feel.

Once you start dictating to people how they think and feel, (especially when they've already told you the opposite is true), you've gone past any reasonable level of opinion and ventured into rabid fanboy territory.

People buy things all the time they think are over-priced. A Starbucks coffee, a pretty lampshade, a designer shirt, pretty much anything you can think of.

There must be billions of individual occasions when someone in the history of this planet bought something non essential thinking it was over-priced.

So I'll tell you what I'll do. How about I start a brand new thread entitled something like 'Hey guys – do you ever buy stuff you believe is over-priced?' (I'll make the first post Final Fantasy related so the thread doesn't get closed).

Let's give it one week.

If in that week we get one single person (in addition to me) post that they thought something was over-priced but bought it anyway, you have to delete your FFXIV account / your forum account and never play this game again. Deal?

According to you, no one is ever likely to say such a thing so think how stupid I will feel when in a week's time, no one at all has responded to the thread.

Shall we do it? Or are you done saying things so asinine, it makes people's heads hurt...?

[Krotoan]

You've spent goodness knows how many posts denying the above – now after repeatedly asking you, you finally acknowledge these things? Wouldn't it have saved so much time and space just to say this in the first place?

People SAYING something is overpriced does not mean it is overpriced. Do you get that?

Out of the giant wall of text you wrote, 95% of it was just the same copy and paste untruths and denials as before. So for this I just refer you to the answers I have already given.

However this specific comment above I felt was worth quoting here and replying to.

You're now openly declaring that:

“Nobody actually buys something non-essential that they really believe is overpriced.”

Really? Because you have such a person here – me. Only the other day I bought something utterly non essential thinking it was over-priced. Yet you're telling me to my face what I think and how I feel.

Once you start dictating to people how they think and feel, (especially when they've already told you the opposite is true), you've gone past any reasonable level of opinion and ventured into rabid fanboy territory.

People buy things all the time they think are over-priced. A Starbucks coffee, a pretty lampshade, a designer shirt, pretty much anything you can think of.

There must be billions of individual occasions when someone in the history of this planet bought something non essential thinking it was over-priced.

And again you miss the point entirely. Simply declaring something is overpriced and then buying it is telling the market that it is fairly priced. You bought it. You found enough value in it that you decided to buy it. You personally may feel "man, I'm spending too much on this" but YOU STILL DID IT.

This is declaring to the world and to everyone else that regardless of what you say or argue , you believe the item is worth paying the money for.

So I'll tell you what I'll do. How about I start a brand new thread entitled something like 'Hey guys – do you ever buy stuff you believe is over-priced?' (I'll make the first post Final Fantasy related so the thread doesn't get closed).

Let's give it one week.

If in that week we get one single person (in addition to me) post that they thought something was over-priced but bought it anyway, you have to delete your FFXIV account / your forum account and never play this game again. Deal?

According to you, no one is ever likely to say such a thing so think how stupid I will feel when in a week's time, no one at all has responded to the thread.

Shall we do it? Or are you done saying things so asinine, it makes people's heads hurt...?

I'm here to post my opinion and to present facts, however unpleasant they may be for you to hear. The fact is no matter what you SAY, it's what you do that matters. Ask someone who is in marketing or any sort of pricing field. If the market accepts it and the item reaps a profitable return, it is not overpriced.