Online Store is Getting Worse!

[magitekLuna]

$22 for the latest set which is a freaking pajama hoodie...



It's never enough for Squeenix. Even during a sale store items are insanely overpriced. I couldn't buy anything this year because the prices are just too damned high for my meager budget. How do they justify these outrageously high prices? How do people justify paying them? $42 dollars for a mount? Who has that kind of money!?

Give us a break, Squeenix.

sadly its just stupid. the glam is maybe a 3-5$ at best. but stupid people pay so why will SE stop.
the big problem i see is this price say that they put more work in to this one glam or mount that in what even was in the patch this month. they worked more on it that the new dungeon/raid/trials/msq. think of this and see how strange it is.

There is a very simple solution for all those, like me, who think most of the items in the Online store are far too expensive.
You don't buy them.

and never have them as well. some of them are good glams. its a problem

[CaedemSanguis]

If people think that the price is not fair, they simply don't have any knowledge about economic and "value"

The glam is so cute btw

[JamieRose]

If people think that the price is not fair, they simply don't have any knowledge about economic and "value"

The glam is so cute btw

Can't wait for your TED talk on buying overpriced junk.

[CaedemSanguis]

Can't wait for your TED talk on buying overpriced junk.

everything is overpriced for someone, depending on which price he wants it to buy

But as I said, each guy that find a price not "fair" just dont have any knowledge about economics

[magitekLuna]

everything is overpriced for someone, depending on which price he wants it to buy

But as I said, each guy that find a price not "fair" just dont have any knowledge about economics

overpriced is not how you fell about it. its how much its cost to make vs how much they sell it for. and ones more why its more that the patch content?

[Silverbane]

overpriced is not how you fell about it. its how much its cost to make vs how much they sell it for.

Nope. Let me explain:

Let's say I hire you to dig a ditch by hand. It takes you four hours.
I provide the shovel, lunch, drinks, snacks, sunscreen.
How much should I pay you?
Well, how much did it cost you to dig the ditch? Just your time.
But what is your time worth?
If it was time you would have otherwise spent playing FFXIV, not much, right?
So should you dig the ditch for nothing, the amount you would have made playing FFXIV?

Maybe I should pay you agricultural minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. $29 for four hours work.
Anything more than that, you would be overpriced, right?
Because I could at least in theory have hired someone else to do it for $29.

Now, on the other hand, let's say you hire a layer to obtain a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office.
That will be $500 per hour, please, four hour minimum, plus the fees the Patent Office charges.
The only cost the lawyer has is their time; why is it worth $2000 while yours is worth $29?

Another example:
Ted makes a widget and it costs him $50 do so.
Bob makes the same widget but it costs him $100 to do so.
Both wholesale the product to Wailmart, where you go to buy it.
What price should you pay for the widget?

Another:
Two homes, one in a blighted area of Chicago, another in Golden Oaks in Walt Disney World.
Both cost the same to build, including the cost of the land.
Which will sell for more?
(The only homes currently available in Golden Oaks is $9.5 million, BTW, $1000/sq.ft.)

And finally:
You own a Picasso, and put it up for auction at Christy's.
It cost Picasso less than $100 in materials to make.
Plus you could make a practically perfect replica, using a scanner, a computer, a 3D printer, and an industrial inkjet printer, for a few hundred thousand dollars, including the cost of buying the equipment.
What's the most anyone should pay for your Picasso?

So, here's the point:
Things sell based on value to the buyer, not on cost to the seller.
When the value is greater than the cost, the seller profits.
When it isn't, the seller goes out of business.

[Nyxs]

I’m curious how the people that dislike the price feel about the price of commissions for art etc. High quality art is very expensive and you cant use it for anything but display.

[Lustre]

If people think that the price is not fair, they simply don't have any knowledge about economic and "value"

The glam is so cute btw

That's just a long way of saying "I dont understand the value of money"

[CaedemSanguis]

That's just a long way of saying "I dont understand the value of money"

sorry I just have a master degree in economics and finance

[JamieRose]

sorry I just have a master degree in economics and finance

Did you get out of a box of Cracker Jacks?