Low level common salvage really high?

Did someone flip the market or is it always like this? I noticed a lot of the low level salvage is currently EXTREMELY high:

Clockwinders -- 250,00 per
Spell Scrolls -- 55,000 - 250k
Ancient Artifacts -- 1.1 million...

The amount of items on AH for these is also very low like less then 10...

Edit: Winders are going for over 2 million..

Vastly oversimplified answer: low supply, high demand, higher prices.

Between the holiday weekend and lots of people running high level and Incarnate content, and all those new Street Justice characters getting out of Atlas and the new sewer trial, supply has dwindled.

Grab yourself a lowbie, or better yet, go play an AE arc and roll some low-level Arcane salvage with the tickets. There's a 50% chance each roll will be one of those three items you mentioned (since there's only six items in that salvage tier) and profit!

Eldorado mostly covered it. Low level common salvage tends to have a lot of extremes in price because both the supply and demand are very variable. Someone in a hurry to do Field Crafter can easily consume most of the standing supply in the market and temporarily drive prices to insane levels. In those cases leaving a standing bid overnight will normally get you plenty of salvage.

Additionally, one thing you notice is that common and uncommon salvage in general tends to have a relatively small reserve supply on the market. You get a decent amount that's low priced but when that gets bought the stuff sitting around tends to be very expensive (I suspect a lot of it is stuff on forgotten alts from times when that was the standard price).

I all three of those cases, I see sub 10k prices in the last five at the time I checked. The stock on all three is low at the moment, so you're going to see spikes where people pay buy it NAO prices. But with some patience, you should be able to get them cheaply, it'll just take some time.

Clock winders weren't so high a couple of days ago. they probably won't be so high in a couple of days.

I use them all the time. I chose them because they tend to be cheap.

Doooom!

As of now, clockwork winders, last five: 1115, 1115, 1115, 200,000, 1115

Spell scrolls: 6000, 7000, 11,111, 30,000, 40,000

Ancient Artifacts: 6000, 5000, 15,000, 20,000, 30,000

Missed my window of making huge profits!

Adeon covered it quite nicely too -- the extreme fluctuations can be brought about by the low reserve, and the fact that we've got so much influence floating around the system now. Someone's probably got a large bid in for clockwork winders at 1115, perhaps as they work on Field Crafter, and along comes someone else a hurry, bid creeping rapidly since it's all play money anyhow. 50k and no instant sale. 100k and nothing in five seconds! 200k -- sold! Now that second person is off to craft their one something or other....

The next person in a hurry might bid 250k, thinking they have to beat that last high bid, when in reality they could just bid 1116, wait ten minutes and have one or a few.

Prices always fluctuate, it's a good way to make money. Buy low, sell high. Things like Mu Vestments and Soul Trapped gems are great for this, buy at 900k, sell for 1.2mil, pocket 300k minus the auction fee (something like 60k iirc). Great money in the early to mid game.

The thing I find truly amusing when I see these fluctuations is that there are greedy players out there that see the abnormally high prices and then put their salvage on the market for those same prices where it sits unpurchased after the market crashes on them. Then they have to take a loss on their listing price or give up a market slot, where it sits mocking them, until the next time the market wildly fluctuates on that item.

I have stacks and stacks of Luck Charm bids in at 15k a piece. They all eventually get filled.

I also have stacks and stacks of Luck Charm sales in at 50k a piece. They all eventually sell.

It's ridiculously easy to make money off stupid people.

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The difference between 15k and 150k is a fraction of a whit.

The difference between waiting 15 seconds and waiting 15 minutes to make w/e I'm after is a significant chunk of my gaming session. Time is worth a whole hella lot of inf, imho.

I'll buy high if I'm in a hurry to get logged off and want to finish something before I do.

It's probably part of why I'm broke most of the time, but the amount of money I have in the game is meaningless to me anyway. I can't pay my real life bills with it, so it only exists to make my gaming time more fun. Therefore, it has no intrinsic value to me and I don't mind blowing through hundreds of millions in one sitting when patience would have let me spend half that.

I don't understand why people are so set on getting a good deal with fictional currency. I'll happily spend a couple million more than I need to with the knowledge that I'll make it back in 15 minutes just playing a level 50 character normally.

I know full well what I'm doing, and I don't complain about being broke because of it. It's play money, have fun with it and stop acting like your real life bank account suffers when you spend too much. That's just my opinion, but I have a lot less angst about the game once I came to the conclusion that I don't care abouth the money that exists in it.

Thank god for AE tickets, right?

I don't find it expensive at all. Only 8 Tickets...

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