30,750?

The only people paying BUY NAO prices are the ones who can afford it.

I'm (relatively) careful when I sell stuff so I don't have to care what I pay for the things I want (and can use spare billions to fuel the 88's furnace, lest Granny catch a chill).

I have an extremely limited play schedule.
Which is a gigantic boon for my pure marketeering.

Nothing supercharges earnings like only being able to log in a few hours a month. The Long Game pays very well indeed.

There's nothing wrong with impatience, when you can afford it. It's when people are impatient, can't afford to pay the "impatience tax" for what they want right now, and then also complain about that combination of events that there's some looking down the nose at people. Even then, that's usually reserved for the people who carry that one step further - come here and complain its the fault of marketeers that this is the situation they find themselves in.

The market is these people's friend. The market is a vast boon to such people exactly because the market is asynchronous. You place a bid at a price you can/will pay for something and you go away. Perhaps you go play, perhaps you go log out for a week. The point is that you come back potentially much later. So long as your bid was no so low that everyone else outbid you while you were gone, you will likely have what you bid on.


There is much less "us" in this forum among the regular posters than might appear. Many of us don't actually interact much other than to respond here to the same posts. We can agree about how the market does and doesn't work without actually acting directly to support one another. Hell, some folks in here don't even like one another. We just all have seen many of the same things and come to the same conclusions, often completely independently.

What doesn't help is when posters come along and brand anyone who uses the market regularly and/or with a lick of applied knowledge as some sort of greedy evildoers out to screw the little guy. If you want to see people band together, make them all feel mutually persecuted. I'm sure there are some posters around here who will get a kick out of the notion that the market regulars should feel persecuted, but I don't think all the sharp edges around here formed naturally.

Formed not forming. It was predictable, inevitable and really kind of sad.

How is paying 30k expensive? kill 2 mobs, and you have that amount of inf. You have a more consistent chance of making 30k, than getting a salvage to drop, sounds like a great deal to me.