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I have to stand by my question asking what this meant:|
Originally Posted by Willowpaw
Just in the very off chance that your question is actually serious (and in the not so off chance that some newbie reading this may not be aware of this phenomenon), allow me to educate here.
Here is Exhibit A, a crafting table showing how much one can expect to pay for a level 45 Endurance Modification recipe:  And now, class, we make a little field trip to Wentworth's for Exhibit B...  In this test, I brought up the same recipe and placed a bid at the price I would otherwise be able to purchase said recipe at an invention table. Now, take note of what happened. Of the 131 that were up for sale, I successfully purchased none of them at the crafting table price. And though I am unwilling to spend my hard earned inf to prove my theory, it is a good bet that if one were to then do the bid creep, one would probably still fail to purchase many of those until the bid got up near what the highest of the last five show, and possibly even higher. Some may slip through at around the 200K point, but it is highly likely that the majority are listed at 300K or more. Face it, going any amount higher than the table price is foolish. Claiming convenience is incorrect even. After all, to then craft the recipe into an enhancement, you should still need to get to an invention table. And at that point, you may as well wait and just purchase directly for the table price. Thank you for your time. There will be a pop quiz on this after the break. |
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| I'd like to see it, if only to cut down on the folks who sell generic IO recipes for higher than the crafting tables sell them for... |
1. Stop the rotten jerks listing for more than the table would charge (which you are clearly showing an example of
2. Prevent uninformed people from listing for more than the table would charge who are then stuck with it until some fool pays more than the table would charge
3. Prevent uninformed people from paying more than the table would charge.
Now in your example there are only 2 kinds of people who are going to pay more than the table charges: The ignorant and the insane.*
I call them insane because I have asked this in the Market forum and they defend paying more as a convienence even though as you point out it cannot be. Yet they do it and say that is why.
If the person I was quoting meant #1, it really is #3. A person can list a level 10 Acc for 2 billion if they want but it really is only a concern if they are ignorant. Let's face it no one is going to pay the 2 billion for it.
All too often people say people are selling things for too much at the market and this is never, ever true. People can list for too much or people can pay too much but you cannot sell for too much because it means someone was willing to pay the amount no matter how crazy it might seem to everyone else.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Originally Posted by SwellGuy
People can list for too much or people can pay too much but you cannot sell for too much because it means someone was willing to pay the amount no matter how crazy it might seem to everyone else.
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Good post.
**shrugs** What can one say? PT Barnum was right. 
Caveat emptor, all!
Dec out.
heh, yeah, I used to sell 50 generic IO recipes (hey, it helps a crafter out somewhere get a badge to craft Inventions cheaper, right? personally I never gave a hoot since it was too much effort to transfer stuff to alts--but now I might turn my main badger hero into a Crafter, since I can email enhancements to myself finally and bypass the ripoff prices of the AH) and I only later noticed I was getting ripped off marketing generic recipes...hard. So I said, 'lolflippers', and I vendor all generic recipes to Ouro now. That's some free money people stopped getting from me.
learn all the recipes + easy access to all tiers of salvage (which are VASTLY overpriced on AH) by using Tickets to roll common salvage from AE = yay?
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Mmmm nice costume.
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Originally Posted by Willowpaw
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Thanks. She has received quite a few good comments on her costume. I was going for a late Silver-age or early 90s super heroine look for that one, something simple and uncluttered, but still presenting a definite super look...|
Originally Posted by LISAR
Mmmm nice costume.
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...with a touch of nerd girl.
I think Azuria at one time had a report by some mystic who was heavy into market research, that put forth an interesting theory about why Endurance Mod recipes are so valuable. Unfortunately, the report got stolen from the MAGI vault not too long after.