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Originally Posted by fastboy21
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In part, yes. As a total explanation not even close.
Your own example of the HEBs doesn't hold water. There are many more factors going on here than just a few folks intentionally auctioning high prices for them to create an over evaluation from a buyer.
You are a on a static server, near the end of the last content to be released. There are some items at this point (like HEBs) which have an extremely high utility and their supply only decreases (no more drop, some folks won't sell, some folks quit without passing them on, etc.). Very few folks are interested in selling an item that they really enjoy and get a lot of utility out of when they know that the price is only going to continue going up. Same with any nerfed item that folks actually use.
What you are calling manipulating the market is really more like trickery, deception, border line scamming. Unless someone is actually buying all the HEBs and releasing them slowly at higher prices (dialing back quantity on the market, dialing up price on the market). One is just playing with smoke and mirrors (and hoping a sucker comes along) the other is actually changing the market by deliberate buying and selling.
Neither one, btw, is actually against the rules.
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i bet theres a lot more factors, i havent been in EC for long, those are some that i noticed being there last month, HEB was just an example, i have seen any items, randomly, even some that i was selling, suddenly random name takes the link announce with different price and almost instantly not online and never see that guy announce that item again, meaning the bold part.
And for sure there are naive sells/buys that is just a good deal from time to time, but not that easy to find.