Honestly I think most of you are just whining and not trying hard enough. If you look hard enough and bargain with people you'll get better prices. Most people want to sell things quickly and will settle for like 80% of the price they list.
Also, you can't complain about price-gouging for a very obvious reason; let me explain with an example: in real life if the price of, say, carrots is too high that's a problem because (a) carrots are food and food is essential and (b) it's hard to grow your own carrots. However in Everquest everything can be farmed/quested for eventually and nothing that players sell is "essential", and so the EC tunnel is just a shortcut for people who want to get good items sooner. Therefore, the prices of most items have a reasonable upper bound because if people gouged too much no one would ever sell anything - it's not like any players would be "forced" to buy from other players the way people would be forced to buy carrots if everyone sold them for a hundred dollars each.
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