True Black Hat marketeering
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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...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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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.
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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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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 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. |
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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. |
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.
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.
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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!
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