The market sucks

[astarothel]

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

Prices are what the market will bear. You aren't required to buy everything listed, and I certainly wouldn't seeing as how it's overpriced by 25% usually. Try and bargain it down that 25% markup.

Some prices are up (lol Dark Reavers) because of demand with the 30000 new SKs and SK alts rolled. It's normal.

Know what to farm, and where to farm it, and you're just fine.

[Walabaego]

Doesnt change the greedy factor of people. This is an EMULATOR. Emulator....Emulation. Eemmuuussss

[astarothel]

Awesome double post there, and I can't edit it because of RnF.

I have no clue how many people I have financed with my tradeskill addiction through buying hundreds of stacks of spidersilk, spiderling silk, eggs, etc.

[mr.miketastic]

Hmm, so if an item farmer was smart, they would spread some sort of disinformation about what the class du jour is, and make bank selling the class du jour popular items off. How many SK's are there now?

[astarothel]

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

How many SK's are there now?

Soooooooo many. Look at all the WTB Dark Reaver threads posted in the last month.

[mr.miketastic]

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

Soooooooo many. Look at all the WTB Dark Reaver threads posted in the last month.

Lol,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07K7LgwMrs4

[Lazortag]

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.

[Aarone]

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

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...

As a gardener in New England, I can attest to this - the damn bunnies and other critters keep eating the new plants!!

Now, if I could only afford a PGT, I'd chop their little heads off! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Kinamur1999]

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

Doesnt change the greedy factor of people. This is an EMULATOR. Emulator....Emulation. Eemmuuussss

another this an emulator so all items are worthless post? I never understood these, if the emulator server doesn't mean anything to you, don't play on it.

Or does paying $15 a month make an fbss worth more?

[YendorLootmonkey]

A few random points:

a) Everything is worth exactly how much some sucker will pay for it. Overpriced shit will not sell until the seller drops the price low enough for an interested buyer to send a tell. The only way to bring prices down is for people to stop buying overpriced shit at the advertised prices. However, see (c)

b) The advertised price isn't always what the item sells for after haggling via /tells, which is going to be based on how long the seller wants to stand there auctioning his/her overpriced shit.

c) If the market is overpriced and stays that way without reaching equilibrium, it's because there's an overabundance of level 50's with cash to burn inflating the market on their alts, creating a heavy barrier to entry for non-50 buyers that are levelling up to 50 for the first time without access to that sort of plat from HG/phat lewt farming.