REQ.7 Items Dropping In Value?

Well, all of a sudden I realized there are like TONS of threads in the high-end section where REQ.7's are for sale.
A month ago, I rarely even saw someone mention a REQ.7, but now there seems to be a very huge supply on them.
My question is: have the REQ.7 drops increased? Or is there some external factor that has made more people sell their REQ.7's? Or is it simply just a co-incidence, followed by the availability to play more during vacations (hence selling your stuff)?

Really curious about this, maybe it's a co-incidence, I don't know.
But it sure is interesting in my eyes...

Can't really know for sure until it happens , economy is always changing so if Anet decides that req7 weapons should drop like 2 % more, you'll get quite a bit more Req 7 weapons on the market.. This thread might be better for the Discussion forum, as the questions are a tad bit unknown at the current time (Unless there was a recent update or something..)

i think it has more to do with how hard "gold" is to get now...ecto's have lost thier value so people are trying to gather gold up instead of ectos...and maybe investing it in something that has a concrete value like lock picks or something.

I agree with Coridan. Its because now req 7s are some of the only things even worth selling now, so that is what you see on auctions now.

Since gold is much harder to obtain, and ecto prices have dropped half in value I think more people are sellling in order to get money.

think of it like this 100 ectos used to be about 1 mil gold
now its around 500k. Either way you look at it, if you had a lot of ectos your money was slashed in half.

That's interesting, indeed. But I don't think that would make people sell their REQ.7 and buy like 3000 Lockpicks. Sounds a bit weird. But it might be a small reason of why there are more REQ.7's.