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Originally Posted by Owls
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If you're selling items at market value, it's likely going to take a while to find a buyer. So you send out your auction message, go do laundry, browse Reddit, etc., then come back in a few minutes. Staring at your screen the entire time you're in the tunnel is a good way to go crazy, and make 20 minutes feel like two hours. That's why it often takes time to respond, and has nothing to do with being a "real player" or not.
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I always choose to look at "market value" as flexible. The thing I consider most when buying/selling an item is what is my time worth.
Example: I bought a fungi tunic for 85k cash a couple weeks ago. Market value, most agree, is 75-80k on green. However, I'd been /auc to buy it for 80k for hours. Within 5 minutes of upping my price in my message to 85, somebody simply /auc's that they're selling a fungi for 85. I strongly suspect they were tipped off by a friend that "this guy is paying 85 cash for a fungi, get here".
Did I overpay vs the market value? Of course. But I spent hours already looking at 80. I could have spent hours more doing the same. A couple hours in Velks doing UD's or something could net me that 5k difference, and has done so since. My TIME was more valuable than the 5k difference. If I didn't have a 60 Shaman, the 5k difference might matter more.
Consequently, before OVP's stopped dropping they were maybe 8-9k and I had someone offer me a Crown of King Tranix and a Sash of the Dragonborn for mine, after I'd initially passed on the Crown alone. Obviously I took that deal. I had the time to spare at the time to sell the items individually as I was selling other things at the time too.
If you treat EC as an "easy come, easy go" thing, it's less maddening. Don't get hung up on one thing unless its the holy grail you're chasing and you just barely have enough to make it happen.