My ebil, manipulative, marketeering ways

I just sold 200 Alchemical Silvers tonight. Each was placed with a 5 INF asking price. Each got over 50,000 - 250,000 INF in actual buys.

There are about 13,000 bids out.

I love how the ability of one or two people to force hugely expensive items down to 10 inf is taken as evidence that there is nothing individual buyers can do to avoid paying too much, because marketeers set prices.

You can always LOWER prices by ADDING stuff. You can make stuff by punching people.

when i get a spare hour or 2 in the day ill ticket farm AE see if i cant procure a few alchemical silvers i reckon in an hour i could get maybe 500 or so? Should be an interesting experiment :P

*gets out the popcorn*

I wanted to clear alchemical silver bids the other day, but walking back and forth from the AE plus deleting other kinds of salvage you get doing common rolls is such a hassle I gave up quick. Even with superspeed and superjump, it takes longer to drop stuff on the market than to actually generate it.

... Vill-side, that is. Being a stinkin' hero would probably help, what with Atlas' WW being about four feet away from the AE ticket guy.

(Edit: scratch that, Mercy BM is just as close.)

I21 can't come soon enough. Increased salvage capacity, /ah...

Of course, if there's a concerted effort, it'll be much more interesting. Gonna roll 25-40 arcane salvage from now on.

Ping cleared about 1000 yesterday by "reverse-flipping".

I have cleared about 1500 between yesterday and today by doing the same

Thank you, Champion.

On a related note, I got tired of Alc silver so I crashed the price of steel last night, it might be back up by now, haven't looked in 12 hours.

Sold 346 alchemical silver. Levelled a brute to 24 doing this (not a super-optimized farming build, just a map tuned to reward axe/fire, which I actually enjoy playing). About halfway through, I sold one and a half stacks for 165k each, netting me several million. Which helps, because the only contribution this character has gotten from my others was a force feedback proc for whirling axe. The rest is all self-funded... And that entirely from selling alchemical silvers and a few recipes I picked up while rolling bronze to get a kismet proc.

Still, progress! It looks like it usually takes me about 188 rolls to get 30 alchemical silver -- a little high, but not unbelievably so. (Interestingly, I've never yet gotten 30 alchemical silver in UNDER 180 rolls. Total is 346 alchemical silver out of 2,152 rolls.)

Here's *my* evil jacking-up-prices story.

I was clearing out my inventory on a 50 redsider. Vendored off all the Arcane commons except two Rubies, because I know there's always a shortage of those. Put Rubies on the market asking for the incredibly high price of 400 inf. That is a net profit of 360, or 110 inf more than I'd get by selling it to a vendor.

Both rubies sold a moment later, 400k each, for a total of 800k.

Not long after, I heard someone Cap Broadcast go "wft why are rubies so expensive" and someone else blaming "cheaters".

So, there you go. I am one of those people who profit from extremely high Salvage prices.

Once upon a time, everyone loved to complain about the price of Luck Charms. They're used in low level accuracy IO's, so everyone just had to have them. Amazingly, this item that everyone just had to have was also expensive: maybe 50k each. Which is *far too much* for low level casual players to ever afford. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

A bunch of us got together and started hoarding Luck Charms. We farmed like crazy. This was before AE, so we mostly went into Dark Astoria and tried to max out our ZPM (zombies per minute). I still have an ice blaster around here somewhere who spent many hours freezing Hellions in Perez Park.

The plan was to pile up so many that we could satisfy every outstanding bid all at once.

I antiflip Rubies all the time. Leave up stacks of bids at 123 inf, list them all at 1 inf. I have gotten upwards of 600k for a stack.

Note that there can be an hour or two during which there is a supply listed at 1 inf and this still happens.

I think I'm about ready to concede. I can't even make a DENT in the bids on alchemical silver. I've dumped 440 of them so far, and the prices are GOING BACK UP.

Lets see what i can do to alchemical silvers this afternoon....3060 for sale 10609 bidding

ive just put up 40 that i had lying about i really think this is an impossible task considering most people will be bidding low hoping to cash in flipping them on this experiment :@

By the time im done with them they will be sittin on stacks of worthless salvage ; D

So far ive fulfilled every bid on Demonic Blood Samples, Runes, Ancient Bones, Masterwork Weapons and Spell Inks.

Dropped the Alchemicals buying price from 25,000 to 13,000 already.

10,241 bidding, 3264 for sale. Chipping away

My favorite part of this forum? I do something stupid and meaningless, others do similar but more impressive, stupid and meaningless things to participate in the craziness. This makes me smile.

RagManX

So, got bored, did some pummelling. Long story short, thanks to my suddenly larger salvage capacity, was able to dump about 300-400 alchemical silvers on the market.

A few stacks went for 65k, got down to maybe 30ish, then the last couple hundred were all at 75k.

Come on, guys! More help sell silvers!

The market is so big that one person by themselves will probably not be able to change anything. Just go to AE and keep your commons for yourself And your influence/infamy. I use to pay the price for outrageous commons once. Then I started eating AE tickets and realized there was no point. If everyone did this I am 100% certain that the demand would go down greatly on these lol commons.