Good Morning everyone, I wanted to complain about the various prices for high end items. As I was shopping in the /baz I discovered too late prices were far and few between the same item. The Multifaceted Spineret is now 10,000 or 4,000 Platinum. Yesterday I bought one approx. 50,000. Spiked Rod of the Disciple is going for 149,000 or 30,000. I bought one for 29,990. I wish there was less variation between the prices. Thanks very much, have a nice day.
Are you more displeased by overpaying for Spinneret or by underpaying for Rod? Although, you've paid 79,990 for both, which is in the middle of the price range 159,000 to 34,000. And who will have the authority to decide on the range of those variations? Yourself ? Or will that be a proper price discovery of the market, with market makers, futures, options, exchange oversight, failure-to-deliver penalties, custodials, naked-short limitations, transaction fees, high-frequency trading rules, congressional hearings, banks conspiracies, cartels and ponzi schemes, and all the shenangians of the World. And then we'll have a fluid and true price discovery mechanism, which will be constantly violated by those who can get away with it. Alternatively - do your best and shop around and make your own judgement calls when you buy/sell.
Also people price whats a item goes for if there is none in the baz lot of time people have no idea what its worth so they will put it high most likely. I remember way back in the day with a website called eqprices.com
LOL! Don't buy them then. They are that price because of supply and demand. No one buys, price goes down. You can always make/forage/loot yourself. That is a possibility in this game. There is a game outside of MarketQuest.
It no different than shopping at the local grocery store and paying $1.49 for the bag of chips or stopping at the convenience store or using the snack machine at work where you would pay twice that or more.
I appreciate the feedback. My concern was for fairness for all players seeking better equipment despite an unusual fluctuation in prices. I thought EQ was in charge of /baz, so it makes sense.
Its worth what its worth to you. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder so to speak. So if you find something in the baz you want while browsing then use the search key to search for that specific item to make sure they all showed up. If you feel its too high then offer in chat that you want to buy said item for what you feel is a fair price. Keep in mind traders offering stuff for sale often put too LOW of a price on things. So it can work both ways. Right now there is a bow I want. Watching the baz daily and more of them got listed but were higher than the original one I saw lol. But still watching..........when it drops in price I will buy it. Until then there is no beauty in it for me.
If it isn't worth the price to you don't buy it. Back in 2001 I'd just started playing I was in EC tunnel looking for upgrades for myself, someone wanted to by my stat player made earring, I did't want to sell, but he kept badgering so I gave in and charged him 10PP for it. He went off happy. Later he came back and said the earring wasn't worth the amount he paid and wanted some plat back. I pointed out I didn't want to sell and that was what the earring was worth to me. I spent the 10PP on other upgrades for myself.
Or something doesnt sell after a few weeks. Nowadays i dont check prices to much on my main. There's always people beating your prices by 1pp or something stupid like that. In fact when im buying and someone does that i buy the higher price one and if i wanna lower my price i dont do 1 pp i do something like 50k or something. Baz can be pretty stupid but what can you do its a free market.