30,750?

I see a whole lot of various common salvage selling for various values, but most of them seem to have a very solid price floor at 30,750. Is someone using that as the purchase point for a bunch of flipping?

In any event, the practical effect is that I pay 30,751 for those things, and get them within a couple of minutes. Works for me.

Some regular market types like to 'sign' thier bids. It can help if fliiping from a range of alts.

This sounds like someone flipping for 30k who uses a 750 for sig, but could also be someone buying a stack for crafting.

And yes, bidding 1 extra works well. Or next round number up to avoid signing it yourself.

750 is too simple of a signature :x

I prefer the pure awesome of 531337

[sarcasm on] Of course this isnt driving up the price at all is it ? [sarcasm off]

I guess we should ignore this obvious example of a flipper causing the price of salvage to increase - or find some reason to discredit it as not really happening.

Cause we all know based on half concocted experiments and extensive BS propaganda done here on the market forums... that flippers could never possibly drive up the prices on items based on their actions. Right ?

ROFL

The items this is being done on are items which are sufficiently high demand with respect to traffic that, in some cases, it was a week or two of active play before I saw a single bid filled at the 30,750 price. And most of them, I've gotten for under 30,750 at least once in the last week.

When I flip, I sort of imagine myself as a old timey fur trapper or something--wandering the hills, looking for promising hunting grounds. When I find a good spot, I set up my traps and wander off. It will be a while before I'm back to check on them.

The person you are considering likely had all their "traps" fill. They weren't checked immediately so there was a break in their purchasing where they were no longer the high (flipper) bid and the price dropped. Then they came back, sold all their "fur", and reset the traps. Or they possibly cranked up their bid in response to increased demand and somewhere they still had an outstanding bid at the 37500 mark.

The only thing I want to comment on is the apparent dogma that being impatient is a sin to be punished. "Want it nao!" I probably take that meme from around this forum too seriously but it seems, to me at least, that is is a pejorative when used by most of the posters here. It places bricks in the wall separating people.

This is a game, not real life. Some people only have so much time that they can devote to it and have to choose where they put their time. And no I am not saying everyone else lives in their Mom's basement or other stereotypes and therefore has no real life themselves. Can we just agree that players have differing amounts of time they can put into the game?

Yes people coming here from outside the local clique often expect too much. I see an Us vs. Them forming. Maybe I am wrong.

Tiny little insignificant morsel of food for thought. Or not.

Dreamt: Your bids sit there watching the market so you don't have to. In other words, if you think you might be leveling the next time you play, you can put your bids out in advance.

If leveling strikes like lightning from the sky, of course, I can't really help you.

I very, very frequently Buy It Nao: If I've just scored a really cheap recipe, cost me 20 million and I'm going to sell it for 80 million crafted* , I will Buy Salvage Nao even if it costs me 100K more than it should for the uncommons, and half a million more for the rares.

And of course if I'm buying for MYSELF, instead of to add to my piles of wealth, money is almost no object.

*OK, this is mostly an exaggeration. I only know one IO that has this kind of spread and I can only move it once or twice a week. It may be collapsing, at that.