[August]

I didn't read any of this thread so I'm sure to contribute right now.

I am a jeweler. I sell my jewelry every time i'm logged into my toon in EC.

When someone asks me for price on something, I have never varied in the 2+ years I've played here, or hell, even when I was on Fippy.

I do NOT haggle on my jewelry prices. If I tell you something (55hp/5ac rings) cost 250pp, if you counter-offer me, I'm not going to reply. Why?

Because I used to reply. I used to reply to every single one of you mongoloids telling you why it's not worth it for me to sell it to you for 175pp. Fire opals cost 550 gold from Genni in sol-ro temple. That's 55pp, but it's more than 55pp in trouble to go get, especially considering I have to use a ton of my time. I literally buy 200 when I go because it's going to take me 2+ hours to get that many fire opals.

Not to mention, even at 55pp, the bar is ~101pp, and my failure rate (at which I spent 10k+ to get to.., plus the time) is 5%. If you want to know precisely, my raw 'cost' per ring is 165.26pp - that's not including my time to go get the non-vendor bought FO, the cost of the port to get them (which you say oh, but you get 200 - yes, which means I have 200 x 55 = 11k in assets tied up in fire opals, which is also a cost).

So you can see why I don't type it all out, or even bother. The fact that I buy 200 at a time tells you the kind of thorough-put I get on them, at the standard price of 250pp. If you don't want to pay my price that I say, just don't say anything back. I'm not ripping you off, and I understand the idea of a secondary market in a game where items never go 'no drop'. If you want to wait and find somebody that is selling their old twink gear, be my guest.