auction tracker on wiki

[justin2090]

Besides, friend A could sell friend B a fbss for 8k. Then friend B sell to friend C for 7k (etc etc). Now the price has dropped on wiki and they can buy all the ones selling for 7k, wait for market to go back up and sell for 12k. Using wiki to manipulate the price of something is not free market. Scammers gonna scam regardless.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by justin2090 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Besides, friend A could sell friend B a fbss for 8k. Then friend B sell to friend C for 7k (etc etc). Now the price has dropped on wiki and they can buy all the ones selling for 7k, wait for market to go back up and sell for 12k. Using wiki to manipulate the price of something is not free market. Scammers gonna scam regardless.

The wiki doesn't pick up the price actually paid. Only the text that people include in their /auction line which gets parsed into the database, and only from log files that people happen to upload.

People can auction WTS XYZ 7000p all day long when they actually sold XYZ for 3500p, but the auction tracker will list the price as 7000p.

[justin2090]

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

The wiki doesn't pick up the price actually paid. Only the text that people include in their /auction line which gets parsed into the database, and only from log files that people happen to upload.

People can auction WTS XYZ 7000p all day long when they actually sold XYZ for 3500p, but the auction tracker will list the price as 7000p.

Well that just makes it even easier to manipulate and it would only take 1 person to do it. Next time I make an alt, the gear i need will be cheap =D ... jk i wouldn't do that but you get my point here.