Patience FTW, sort of

It's been a long-standing mantra repeated by many regulars here that patience will eventually win out on the CoH market. All the regulars here know there are some counter examples to that, but I have a rather impressive example of patience paying off.

Edit: I found the screenshots and logs and updated the misremembered values originally given. I was off by about a factor of 1.7.

When did we get the new market interface? Issue 18? So August 2010. There's been a bug with it that I deem associated with confirmation prompts. If you have prompts enabled, it sometimes lists or bids on the wrong row in the current item list. Back before I figured out how to avoid this (which is to disable market prompts, even back when we had to do it every game session), I once was trying to list a crafted Posi's Blast piece, and instead accidentally listed a stack of ten Masterwork Weapons for roughly 15M apiece. According to my chat logs, I did this on December 20, 2010. (While the transaction isn't particularly identifiable in the logs, my kvetching about it in globals was.)

Now, I was annoyed at the listing fee lost, but it was more the principle than the loss of money. I don't market a lot with the character in question, so I decided to just leave the listing alone. If I really needed some Masterwork weapons, I could pull these down later.

They sat there for a long time, until nine months later, someone bought 8 of them for about 55.55M apiece, in a clear typo purchase. (If you think this is bad, the eight they got from me were apparently the end of a chain of purchases - the last 5 sales was painted with 55.5M inf purchases.) Here's that sale, dated September 22, 2011.



But I still had two Masterwork Weapons listed. I left them there.

I just logged this character in, and some time in the last 30 days, someone bought the remaining two for 20M apiece, just shy of a year later. Right now the price for these is hovering in the 10k - 50k range.



So an ancient accident eventually turned into around 436M inf in income after fees. Awfully slow? Absolutely. Anyone trying to make money for a goal should never think this is actually what we mean when we say to "be patient". On the other hand, this was also completely effort-free income. Apparently, if you wait long enough, even the most ridiculous listings sometimes go through. Even in stacks of 10.

(In my defense for misremembering that I'd made 800M on the old sale, on the same day I sold LotG specials for another roughly 400M, so I seem to have remembered that total instead of what I sold the Masterwork Weapons for.)

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Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

This is exactly what is wrong with the market. Way to drive the prices of salvage up. You should be ashamed of yourself.









I kid of course.

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This is pretty fabulous. Well done.

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The Mentor Project

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It seems I sold these just in time. Otherwise, the game may well have ended with them in my inventory.

This makes me pleased and sad all at the same time.

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Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA