Looking for several Control purples.

Hi folks.
I'm a long time player trying for the first time to break through my own glass ceiling and progress into the marketing metagame and purpling characters, et cetera.
I'm looking to buy several purple IOs (recipes or enhancements, I don't care which), but I'm hoping to get some at reasonable values, as the Market is in crazy flux right now, apparently from the DXP weekend, and as I said, I'm very new to trying to turn any real numbers of influence around, so I don't have billions to throw around.

I'm currently looking for:

Absolute Amazement: Starting offer of 40m each
Stun/Rech
Acc/Stun/Rech
Acc/Rech
End/Stun

Coercive Persuasion: Starting offer of 30m each
Confuse/Rech
Acc/Confuse/Rech
Acc/Rech
Confuse/End

Unbreakable Restraint: Starting offer of 100m each
Hold/Rech
Hold/Rech/Acc
Rech/Acc

I'm also, in a semi-related note, looking for ((EDIT: PURCHASED: 3 LOTG: Def/End (L50) 8/18/11)) and 4 LOTG: Def (L50) which I will tentatively offer 20m apiece on.

I am willing of course to take counter-offers and negotiate, as I realize I might be setting my offers too low, having never tried to buy into the purple market before.
Thank you all for your time and hopefully business.

Edit: Just as a note, if on the off chance I get a lot of offers in a short amount of time, I may need a bit to collect the influence, but in that admittedly unlikely scenario I will do my best to be prompt.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

I don't offhand know specific prices for the purples, but I will tell you this: All of those are FAR cheaper on Wents as recipes. I move a few of "those type" of purples a week (2? 5? Depends on week) that I buy around 50M and sell around 150M .

LoTG Def/End at 50 is one of my niches. Before 2XP the recipe was selling for 30-40 and the crafted was generally selling at 50. Servers are down, I can't give you current prices, but I don't think they've moved much. There was a lot of inventory and, if Karma -KBs are anything to go by, inventory only moved down by about 50 items.

best way to get the luck of the gamblers is tip missions and trading in merits for alignment merits, in two days you can get three of them if you do this, they cost 2 merits each.

absolute amazement and coercive persuasion from what i have seen on the market sell for around 50 to 60 million average, from what i have been seeing when i checked that is which isnt all that often myself but they are fairly cheap for purples. the unbreakable constraint i dont know about because i havent checked. i just bought a plus defense lotg for 60 million last night on the market. id say check the market several times a day and then try to put up a offer that is within 10 percent of the going rate and you would probably get some hits simply because anyone selling them at the market are going to pay the 10 percent tax so if you make the offer better than that somebody would probably take you up on it. im trying to purple out a controller right now myself but not working exclusively at it so good luck in getting what you need, those purples can be a pain at times.

Got all the LOTG: Def/End off the market overnight for 20m apiece, edited the original post to reflect this.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm Just a bit.

Commentary aside, if you want to make a counteroffer on anything I'd be happy to hear it.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

On the Market forums, generally we consider there to be two different prices for any given item: the "Take it away!" price[list at 1 inf, get highest current bid] and the "Buy it NAO!" price [keep ratcheting up your bid until you get one. ] There are sometimes prices somewhere in the middle, but they tend to cluster around those two prices[1].
The recipe vs. crafted situation is a classic example of this. People who want it NAO buy crafted. Worst case of this I've ever had was the last[2] slot on a L50 corruptor that I was respeccing into my Big Money build. With a day or two of patience it could have been a 450 million inf buy, but I actually ended up paying 751 million.

So people with patience buy recipes and list crafted ,or slot; people with no patience buy crafted and slot.

[1.] Some bunch of competing marketeers sets those prices by "what they're willing to pay" and "what they're willing to sell for." If the spread is big, more marketeers will discover it and creep prices up and down; if the spread is too small, marketeers will give up and go away. I love finding a "buy at 6 million, sell at 30 million" niche, but I always have to find new ones because some other guy starts buying for 10 and selling for 20.

[2] And then I slotted it in triumph! And realized I had one more thing to buy. ARGH!