True Black Hat marketeering


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Fury you can have fun with your white hat. I like my black hat.


Go look at the Sleep recipes. I'm in your base buying them up and deleting them.

BECAUSE I CAN!

Delete Some
Delete More
Delete More!




 

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I did the same thing with Nevermelting Ice last night....not the same scale, but... =P

I bought up most of the supply for a few k but there was a hard crust at about 200 left, went up to 70k without cracking it. Interesting.


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dont get it..


 

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dont get it..
White hat; doing things for the right reason for the right purpose, black is basically being evil.

I bought 48 purples and deleted them all for fun.


 

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Beautiful.


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I bought 48 purples and deleted them all for fun.
well thank goodness you didn't do something genuinely bad like FLIP them!

=P


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well thank goodness you didn't do something genuinely bad like FLIP them!

=P
How do I flip something noone wants?


 

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How do I flip something noone wants?
You're not as ebil as I thought. Buy them all up but list one at an insanely high price. That means the one person in the game that badly needs it has to fork over a mini fortune. After you sell that one, list another one that was headed to delete anyway. Buy up any supply. Soon, you might actually attract more speculators into the niche, artificially driving up the price.

...just because I'm a White Hatter doesn't mean, I don't know how to do the Black stuff too.


 

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How do I flip something noone wants?
I'm sure Emperor Steele can explain it to you.


=D


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Originally Posted by Fury Flechette View Post
You're not as ebil as I thought. Buy them all up but list one at an insanely high price. That means the one person in the game that badly needs it has to fork over a mini fortune. After you sell that one, list another one that was headed to delete anyway. Buy up any supply. Soon, you might actually attract more speculators into the niche, artificially driving up the price.

...just because I'm a White Hatter doesn't mean, I don't know how to do the Black stuff too.
I'm not spending another 500m on being a black hat. that recipe buying was getting expensive quick.


 

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I'm not spending another 500m on being a black hat. that recipe buying was getting expensive quick.
There's that many left to buy?


 

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There's that many left to buy?
Well if we assume that the price will go up on them as I buy the stock out, yes.

77 to go. buying at 3.5m each cost me ~36m a stack.


 

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How do I flip something noone wants?
You use mind control to force them to pay a price they don't want to pay.


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You can be so much more ebil if you buy up 2 of the recipes because people DO slot the sleep and confuse sets for the cheap recharge. Then you can flip your 3mil purchases for 20mil each.

Eventually some other marketeer with try and step on your action, paying way more than you did, so you just sell them all to them and let them hold the bag of crap until the next guy comes along.


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You can be so much more ebil if you buy up 2 of the recipes because people DO slot the sleep and confuse sets for the cheap recharge. Then you can flip your 3mil purchases for 20mil each.

Eventually some other marketeer with try and step on your action, paying way more than you did, so you just sell them all to them and let them hold the bag of crap until the next guy comes along.
Are you actually storing them up, so when all these electric doms and and electric controllers turn 50 and want to purple out their toons, you have cornered the "static field" sleep market?


 

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Are you actually storing them up, so when all these electric doms and and electric controllers turn 50 and want to purple out their toons, you have cornered the "static field" sleep market?
Heck no, I deleted them all!


 

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Are you actually storing them up, so when all these electric doms and and electric controllers turn 50 and want to purple out their toons, you have cornered the "static field" sleep market?
already cashed out on them and the end mod chance to disorient proc.

Cleared almost 2 billion between the 3 for about 30 min "work." The proc was the real coup. picked them up for 50K each, around 30 of them, crafted them with dirt cheap salvage and flipped them back at 15-20 mil a pop.

The sleep set was just dabbling with the idea of controlling the price on 2 IO' in a low demand set that everyone just uses for the recharge. I figured I would get paid on at least one of them since you need 5 for the recharge. Turned out that someone else saw what I was doing and tried to move in on it. So after then had their bids in I dumped mine all back into the market below thier bid but well above what I paid and took it all to the bank. Now the price is back in the tank and someone else can play the delete purples game like the OP


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I'm sure Emperor Steele can explain it to you.


=D
*flings rubber bands* shush you!


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*flings rubber bands* shush you!
Well, can you?


 

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I'm not giving away my secrets >=O


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I have two words for you guys who are doing this and it isn't "Good Morning"

I was wondering do any of you guys work for the US govt? Stop with the retarded forced inflation. Get over yourselves and stop ripping people off. Thanks.


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I have two words for you guys who are doing this and it isn't "Good Morning"

I was wondering do any of you guys work for the US govt? Stop with the retarded forced inflation. Get over yourselves and stop ripping people off. Thanks.
And I have four words for you.
Try to make me


 

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I have two words for you guys who are doing this and it isn't "Good Morning"

I was wondering do any of you guys work for the US govt? Stop with the retarded forced inflation. Get over yourselves and stop ripping people off. Thanks.
The only people getting "ripped off" are the people who want to get ripped off. No one is paying anything they can't afford.

While I don't agree with this type of marketeering, it really isn't a big deal in the long run. There's room for everyone here. Try not to take this type of thing personally.


 

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Honestly I've deliberately phrased the post in a way to make me look evil. I could easily rephrase it in a way to make me look like a saint y'know.

Observe;

So you're playing the game and you get a purple. You must be rich you think. But no, you check and it was just a sleep set. No worries, the benevolent Chaos Creator is here to save the day! I bought out a ton of those sleep recipes so now yours will actually sell. You should be so happy that your recipe is no longer worthless.

Not only that but you, the 80 people I bought out; You listed your recipes for what you thought they were worth. I paid what I thought they were worth. Who are you to tell me what to do with them?


See, now I look like a saint. Don't get me wrong though I really am as evil as the original post sounded.