Off-Market Marketing?


Leandro

 

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If the market is down for at least the weekend (as the title of the post stating that it's down indicates), is there any value to offering salvage and IOs for sale (or offering to buy salvage and IOs) either via a thread here on the market forums, or via chat channels in-game?

A lot of people here on the forums have things squirreled away in their bases that I'm sure they'd be willing to sell, if the price were right. I don't hoard salvage so much, but I have private bases on Virtue and also Freedom where I keep bins full of crafted IOs for my own use and also to sell later. With the new e-mail system, as I understand it I can make deals with any other hero on any server, or with a villain I can trade with any other villain -- even those on EU servers? True?

I don't necessarily see any value in broadcasting what I have for sale in-game, unless I have a specific high-value IO that I wanted to sell many might want to buy... but would listing things that I have in my base that could be available for sale here on the forums be of any use? Considering that, most likely, most people who normally buy these IOs from me don't read this forum anyway?

Even if that would be of little use, I do see a value in posting here for IOs that you want to buy, to see if anyone has them available. Possibly for salvage as well, although probably broadcasting in-game for someone who has that would work better (and you can purchase salvage with tickets of course). Posting to The Market in-game channel would also be a good way to find someone who has that specific IO that you're looking for.

I'm just thinking that people are going to want to IO characters before the market comes back up, and there's already a bit of off-market trading and selling that goes on here and in-game, especially for very valuable IOs.

Thoughts?



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