There are two reasons items like Sniper Ring, Ochiudo's Kote, and Peacock charm have a great chance of continuing to rise. Both answers are.... cheating. There are botters camping all the higher priced, close quarters NM at all times now. That is cheater #1. There was a time when prices were more stable. If someone jacked the price up on an item, it just didn't sell. Enter cheater #2. Fishing/farming botters/gil buyers now have gil bursting from their pockets. It's not hard to pay 770k for level 34 hand armor when 8 hours of sleep will get it back for you. Maybe the answer WOULD be to stop buying them (if that is even the question). But due to the ability to manufactor fake money with little to no effort, the sale of those items will continue. Try camping some of the wider area NM and pad your wallet. Then, rather than buy those items, buy some +1 weapons and armor (from the crafters, who most of which worked hard to be able to make gil) to make up the slack until you are high enough level to camp NM too tough for botting. I won't EVER see a botter camping Eastern Shadow or Meglobugard! Yes, level 50 is okay to have Argus pounding on you until you return to your keyboard. Let's see someone let a few Dimensional Deaths slap them! XD Anyway, keep your chin up and don't let cheaters ruin your fun!