Our Economy-What would you change?Follow

I really wish kabobs would balence themselves out. The HQ sythers have ruined the market. They sell regular mithkabobs for lower then wat it costs to make them, just to move there product, until they get Chiefkabobs, which is htere real moneymaker.

i wish necessies would be cheaper <arrows, shrukens, ninja power, quivers>
maybe just my excuse for being poor <i still make it from blink stack to blink stack> but really it should be a bit cheaper.

If you think about it, the Economy isn't connected to the Auction House whatsoever. WE connected OUR economy to it, but needless to say it's not.

Why, you ask?


The Auction House is.........an Auction House. People are allowed to set any prices they want and sell to the highest bidder. Like e-bay in real life, auctions aren't bound to the economy as a whole, but bound to the vender in question.

The "economy" changes for better or for worst depending on NPC pricing and the amount of inflation presented to the value of a single gil which is tattered when people buy gil off of the internet. It's the same concept as printing money. Major nono.

I'm satisfied with how the economy is. It's not bound to any specific rules, and we have the liberty to charge what we want when we want. If people are dropping meatkabob prices to make a shot for chiefkabobs, they are allowed. You don't have to buy from them, you can easily go somewhere else (Bazaars for instance) or make them yourself.


That's just my opinion. :-P

I agree with Sir XvExodusvX. We really can do pretty much what we want with the economic market. If we continue to use the price of kabobs in the AH, maybe I can make a point. I farm all my materials for making the kabobs. Thus, my standard cost of materials is limited to fire crystals unless I am lucky enough to run into a couple of fire elementals.

Once I am done crafting, I end up with about 30% HQ synth stacks and the rest normal synth stacks. The meatkabobs I can sell in any AH for 3k a stack, when the max they will sell for on bazaar is 230 each, or 2760 a stack. They are close enough that I won't balk at selling either way.

The chiefkabobs I usually sell for 500 each. This is more than double the price of a regular kabob at bazaar prices. However, the AH price is ungodly on these and I refuse to sell them that high...it makes them inaccessible to the people who just want to go have fun and not farm 70% of the time.

This is my choice and I have yet to run out of customers. In this way, I feel that I put in my two gil into the economy. In the end, I can pretty much guarantee that I make more money in the long run then those who sell for so much. I apply the same rules to anything else I synth and sell regularly. I don't feel that I am undercutting the market, and I am making a decent chunk of change.

Yeah but you have to also take into account the difficulty in obtaining those items...

I wish people would use the wholesale concept. For almost every item it's cheaper to buy single than by the dozen.

Edit: Well Dranoface if you thought the price was too high you could have waited 1 day (A whole day!) and someone would have eventually set the "regular" price. You dislike people that do that, yet you condone it by buying from them. Hilarious.

Edited, Sat Aug 21 07:00:04 2004 by Fakeaccount

Anyone been in the market for light crystals lately? Good lord...

I remember paying 3k/stack for light crystals when I was using them for gardening...when I last checked AH, they were going for 9k/stack. ouch...

But in reality, the price of a given item will always level out based on what the market will bear. If someone puts something on the AH at an inflated price and has it returned to them 3 days later unsold, they're likely to drop the price. If I find that a price is unreasonable to my way of thinking, I just don't buy it (unless it's a job necessity for leveling).