The law of unintended consequences

[Cigarskunk]

I genuinely think this is funny now - the first part annoyed me for a day or two, but then when the dominoes started falling, it became very humorus to me.

There are atleast two people now regularly selling buckets of crab legs for the BPP in the bazaar on Xev now - they bounce between 15k and 10k depending on who knows.

Personally, I won't even think about buying these for more than 1k, but that's not the real point.

The people selling them also carry the secondary ingredients and advertise them as whole kits along with a finished BPP - don't know if they are honest enough to let folks know that THEY have to take the gamble on the final combine to make this with a 250+ trivial, but that's less relavent than what I'm willing to pay.

What is funny is that they've single handedly shot the prices for the secondary components through the roof now that every idiot and his mom thinks that the hero sandwhiches and justice fruit pies are going to be going like hotcakes for the peice of food that's worth 10-15k for whatever reason.

Hold onto your seat because the giggles keep comming - they seem to have descided to tag team thier prices - one guy has the heros at 200 and JFP at 1k while the other guy has the heros at 1k and the JFP at a reasonable 200.

Now, this has only been going on for about a week, so it may collapse in on itself or it may explode totally and utterly out of control. I've got about a stack of JFP and HS tucked away that I'm going to suddenly introduce at a mear 400p each if this REALLY blows up and force one of those two to buy me out to keep thier prices going.

I guess my only real question is, "Are these two doing this with guild authorisation, are these illegal mules, are these guys exiles or did they just get lucky and stumble across the raw materials somewhere?"

[Kcalehc]

to add to your question you might add:
Is this one person with two accounts trying to make a killing by scaming the less well informed for all they're worth?

[Reflan]

If so, it's a guy whose real price for each item is 200pp, not 1k. At 400pp, they would have zero reason to buy Cigarskunk out. The same applies if it's two different people. As long as the bazaar low is 200pp, the high of 1k makes no difference at all. So 400 will never seem like a bargain or prompt a buy-out.

[Cigarskunk]

The only way a potential for a buyout would occure is if, as I said was a possibility, the situation started escalating out of control.

Recall how once upon a time, if a tailor paid you ONE WHOLE PLAT for a silk swatch, then you'd hit the jackpot and must have obviously encountered some uber rich character?

Then things started happening to throw the market out of whack and now your average low level feels that you're some scam artist out to cheat them if you offer them less than 10 plat for that same swatch?

Remember how fast folks caught on that hobgoblin meat was going to be valuable and so priced the meat at pretty much the same price as the surprise itself?

Idiots happen, markets encounter brief periods of folks going nuts, prices spiral into crazy ranges and folks do what they can to maintain monopolies.

[Danthen]

Nah, I think this is just a simple "stupid bazaar buyer" scam. These 2 guys are the same person. They place 2 of the same items in the bazaar, one at 1k and the other at 200pp. The mark searches in the bazzar window and sees them both listed and assumes "Wow! that one for 200pp must be really cheap!". He buys it up only to find out later that he overpaid for it.

[Gargazon]

I price swatchs at 20p each...because people pay that for them. I remember saying to myself one day, well I really don't want to sell these, but hey, lets just stick them up at an incredibly overpriced 20pp each, and see what happens, I'll use the ones that don't sell for myself, and my friend who tailors. I sold over 30 stacks in under 2 hours, to one guy. They never last more than a night, no matter how many I put up. At least that was the case a few weeks ago. I pretty much stopped playing my main, and made an alt on Stromm. Lots of fun still. The server is ageing quickly though.