Flipper: beached!

It occurred to me today that I have, on my 3-4 main market characters, an awful lot of things that meet the following criteria:

1) I bought them, crafted them, and listed well below market price

2) The market price has collapsed

3) They've been listed for weeks.

According to *cough* some people, flipping RAISES prices. So today's rhetorical question: How can this be? (all are crafted, max-level)

Miracle: Healing, listed for 40,100,908. Apparently this was going for 50M + at one point. Now it's around 25M, high 30 and low 15.6.
Blessing of the Zephyr: KB reduction. Listed for 30-31M, so apparently in the 35-40M range. Now selling for 25-30M. (I have four. Oops. )
Reactive Armor: Res/End, listed for 35.3M, selling for 10-25M.

Eradication Quad: listed for 41, selling for 40. Apparently that was 50 million at some point.

Steadfast Res/Def: listed at 30, selling for 20-25.

I'm going to have to pull these things down and *gasp* lose money on some of them! That's unpossible! I'm told I RAISE prices on things! With my market mind control!

(... in other news I left Celerity: Stealth alone for a couple weeks and it kicked back up to 50 million.)

So, friends, share your tales of woe. What's stubbornly sitting in YOUR slots?

Red Fortune Defense: Listed at 6m was selling for 15m Selling for like 3m now
Some HamiOs
Theft of Essence: ACcc/End/Rchg Listed at 59m, was selling for 70. now 40

Mostly I haven't had problems, but Wall Street Brawler has a whole bunch of shield breaker IOs (don't remember which specific ones) that have mostly not been selling for 3 weeks or so. Mind you, I knew it wasn't a high turnover item... but it's not turning at all for me at the moment.

All of my other niches are more or less fine. Reactive Armor: resist, for example, goes up and down but mine eventually sell. I think I have a few of those Reactive Armor res/end hanging around, and a few Impervium Armor res/end too I think, but nothing taking up too many slots.

Nothing. =P

I doesn't flip at the markets except by /em flip

But I only have 7+ Billion total.

I picked up a few Miracle triples on the cheap (< 100K Inf) prior to the Market merge when they were being dumped. After the merge, they were going for 5 million, but I held them because I've seen them go to 20-25 at times (pre-merge, both sides). A few weeks later, it looked like they were settling in at 15 million, so I figured it was as good as it was going to get for now. I put half a dozen of them up for 12.5 million across 3 characters. The going price immediately tanked to 5-8 million. It had been easing on up, but kept bouncing off a hard resistance at 12 million. I finally had a couple sell this week.

OH hey, wait a sec.....I19.....Inherent fitness..........



.....I just might be okay after all!

I've got a few Soulbound Alliegences sitting on one character. I bought up about 6 sets very cheap before the market merge and sold most of them for a decent profit (in most cases 3x-4x what I paid for them). I listed the last few for a higher price than the earlier ones to see if I could get a bit more for them but apparently I got greedy. I'll wait a few weeks after I19 and see the trends before deciding wether to pull them or not.

Oh where shall I begin....

I have 4 crafters actively working

1 is doing Lotgs Def/end ....selling price on the crafted went from 30M to 15-20million and I was sitting on a lot of recipes that I crafted for just under 14million....fortunately the recipe went down to 4 million for a short time so I bought a couple for some dollar cost averaging

1 was crafting touch of death proc and a/d/e but that market is fallen....sitting on 6 of each listed for 15 million.

1 saw a tremendous spike in Eradications.....

And the last one is crafting purples and is doing quite fine....

So yeah what Goat said.....pity me oh casual player, for I can not afford to purple out my warshade....(Im busy purpling out my VEAT for one thing)

--Frog

I got burned pretty well with some oblit damage procs -- they were going for 60M and dropped to 20-25 range. I had a few listed at like 35M+101 but I pulled them.

Have been crushed by a few PvP IO price plummets in recent week. I still have 3 panaceas and 1 Shield Wall for sale which I originally listed at 75-80% last-5 pricing but are now 25-50% over last-5 pricing.

RagManX

I have two marketeers that are pretty much twiddling their thumbs currently.

One of them is heavily invested in a little I-19 speculation. I'm expecting
his shinies to give a glorious return Real Soon Now, but they're in pure
idle mode at the moment, so he's full up on shinies, recipes, slots, and
salvage (ie, a fully stalled production line).

The other has several purples listed and is currently a prisoner to the
volatility of those. Given the amount of fees involved, he's simply going to
wait it out until pricing swings back up where they were... <shrug>

The others are playing much more reliable and consistent niches and are
doing fine.


Cheers,
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