Remove the auction sites

[poena.dare]

An Air Elemental for President 2016!

[RedXIII]

Whats funny is that some people are really trying to scam the prices by pretending they are selling the item for a much lower price. Later they come to you and say: "Hey but the avg price in p99 auct is XXX, i am not paying all that".

Do what i do, and dont flex your prices. Stay firm and make people pay what you are asking.

RIP fungi prices... damn lowballers.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by poena.dare [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I like it and I hope it continues to work.

I sell some things much higher than the p99auctions average price. Ppl send me irritated tells. I calmly explain my costs are higher than average. Sometimes I negotiate. Sometimes my pricing strategies backfire.

I sell some things much lower than the average p99auctions average price. The site helps me unload those items quickly.

Above all else, being a pragmatist is Classic behavior.

I like your style, I always price low on the rare occasion I visit EC, I just want to be in and out; someone else can make the rest of the profit with resale.

On the other hand, when I was levelling my wizard, I was buying gnoll scrolls for less than everyone else. When people told me other people paid more I'd just say "fine, wait for them to log on and in the mean time continue losing x PP each time you have a duplicate scroll rot".

I think too many people are too concerned with getting the exact price on the wiki/whatever instead of focusing on what things are worth to them.

[Daldaen]

Just implement the Bazaar please.

No one has ever had a meaningful interaction with someone in EC. You can still haggle with AFK traders and they can get back to you, but you run the risk of the item being bought up so stop low balling and pay the price asked.

[Tuurin]

To be honest, the auction sites make EC function almost exactly like the bazaar did, and for all of those purists out there it's not surprising they don't like it. But that's the reality of our current emu- you can basically walk into the zone, look up the what's being sold and how much it costs, go to that "bot" and buy it- no real haggling, etc.

Furthermore, you can do most of that while not even in EC- just need to have a mule parked there for when you make a deal. So really it's even more automated that the old bazaar. At least with the bazaar you had to actually go there (or again have a mule parked there) to check on prices and see what's for sale. With the app you can look up EC without even being logged into EQ- hell, you can even do it on your phone if you want.

[yyrkoon]

Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had a staunch career of serious posting (Probably some odd 2,500 posts prior to me posting with new humor and flair.

basically you spent the few last months shit posting red99 forums every single day, all day. most people gave up on these forums because of your and chaboo's spam.

now that the red forums are almost empty you two come to blue forums

fuck off back to red

nobody likes you here

[Freakish]

Fungis down to 30k yet?

[Chaboo_Cleric]

It really ruins the entrepreneur spirit of starting in the slums and making yourself rich in EC. That site is the worst thing ever for the game. Might as well close the entire EC Tunnel down and just put in the bazaar. It's literally the same crapshoot. The people who want this type of site are bad at EQ and love having an advantage. At this point, you might as well throw maps in the game, and nexus ports.


Really damn shame to see a classic experience ruin it's way of commerce.
Way to go liberals , hand hold some more.

[aMindAmok]

Im all for the auction site even though Ive never used it. Thing is nobody wants to spend all their time in ec except for people playing WalletQuest. So what if the price of fungie has dropped since the site became available (saw at 40k I think recently) It just shows how over inflated the price was. You just dont like everyone being able to see that. The only people that buy that crap are other WalletQuesters and someones rich alt. I hope the market crashes on all the items so maybe some of them stop being perma camped.

[Mendo]

Originally Posted by Daldaen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just implement the Bazaar please.

No one has ever had a meaningful interaction with someone in EC. You can still haggle with AFK traders and they can get back to you, but you run the risk of the item being bought up so stop low balling and pay the price asked.

This brings up a good point. What is the real reason we loved EC and hated the Bazaar? In EC the economy was organic and you actually had to chill there and wait for someone to sell what you needed, maybe you got lucky and got someone in a rush. Maybe you got someone who was a pro trader and the goods were to expensive for you. Either way you had to sit there and interact with other human beings. Auction sites remove that. When I want something I can run around and play the game, not sitting in EC. While playing I just have the auction site up and when I see the item I want I send that guy a tell and offer the price the auction site told me was a good price. EC is no longer EC when I can do this.