monopoly holders

[Bartox]

I have to agree with Phabos assessment of the situation and your choices for dealing with it. If you are unwilling to do the work yourself (farm components) then you have to decide whether pay his price or find someone else to buy from outside of the bazaar market.

As far as his monopoly.. sounds like he has pretty deep pockets if he is able to snatch up every windstone that goes up for sale, in order to resell at his price.. which im assuming he is probably netting about 50-100pp profit from doing so.

If someone (consumer) is willing to pay the price.. then you cannot blame them (vendor) for keeping their price as is....

[Dunthor Warsmith]

If someone (consumer) is willing to pay the price.. then you cannot blame them (vendor) for keeping their price as is....

Very right, and that's the part that I am often amazed by ... people will BUY at these prices? :shock:

[Railina]

Or...I could buy the divine crystalline glaze this fellow makes -- at 500pp each!!! Holy moley, with a 40% success rate on spiritstones at 250 pottery with geerlok, and the golden idols of tunare selling at 700 to 900pp, I really can't afford to make any pottery these days. I've stopped advertising myself as a 250 potter or responding to /market and /ooc requests for 250 potters because I can't replace my glaze at a reasonable price if I lose it. Especially since people seem to want to pay about the same price for a 30k pottery item combine as they would for a halas meat pie. My last 7 permafrost crystals are precious, and are held in case a friend needs an item here and there.

Reflan, did permafrost Crystals stop being a ground spawn in the dire wolf pens on your server? Those are free, easy to get, and have a reasonably short respawn time.