Annoying Ecto Sellers
Energizer Deth Buni
Please check the price of Ecto on the vendors before you start selling them. At one point this week the price at the vendor had jumped back to 8 or 8.5. The vendor was buying them for 6.5k and I found people in TOA selling them for 6k????? Thank you for undercutting the already miserably low prices of Ecto. And does anyone know if Ectos are going to be used in the next Chapter? Thanks
Star Gazer
its really not anets fault that they opened a good place for noobs to collect all the ecto they can get their hands on. I think it is crap that ecto is so easily obtained now. It has to do with those 13-15 year old kids and say OMFG DOOD LOOK IM RECH NOW I GOTS ME AN ECT0! and sell for quick cash at merchant...sigh, I guess you cant really teach everyone how to properly play the game ;]
theVariable
Star Gazer, that's what the merchants are there for. People who value their time and that don't want to spam chat for trades have a way to get some quick gold. And as the NPC stock goes up, prices go down along with the player driven "demand". I'm sorry you can't impose your high prices on everyone, forever :P
Star Gazer
well see, if people were smart about it (hint hint), noone would sell a thing to the trader. they would say to themselves 'hmm, didn't I see ecto going for 14k a couple weeks ago? I think I will hold on to it until they go back up to make ::gasp:: MORE MONEY!' i mean honestly, its common sense. i guess people just lack that 
striderkaaru
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Originally Posted by Star Gazer
well see, if people were smart about it (hint hint), noone would sell a thing to the trader. they would say to themselves 'hmm, didn't I see ecto going for 14k a couple weeks ago? I think I will hold on to it until they go back up to make ::gasp:: MORE MONEY!' i mean honestly, its common sense. i guess people just lack that
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anyway, the problem stems from the fact that there are no rare material traders in the outposts where you usually return after having acquired ecto. with prices as unstable as they are, it's annoying to have to tp somewhere just to check and tp back to make a sale or to buy. most people go with what they remember prices being the last time they checked.
Optime
I really don't know why people complain that the ecto prices are too low. I just cannot understand it. Isn't a reduced ecto price better? Isn't it good that these materials are now more accessible to 'noobs'? (Also, why are they noobs? Because they don't farm the UW and therefore don't have loads of ecto? Hmm?)
Can anyone explain this for me, please?
Thanks,
Optime/Zanpaku To
Can anyone explain this for me, please?
Thanks,
Optime/Zanpaku To
Sonya of Red
To the OP. I don't see why your complaining. Heck, if someone wants to sell ectos for 500 less then the rare material trader will buy them for then buy them from him. For each one you buy you get 500 gold profit for abolutely no work or hassle. How is that a bad thing? Or am I misunderstanding something here?
Valdaran Longfoot
People spam "selling ectos for **** each" when buying from the trader is half what they spammed for. It is very annoying.
Lady Lozza
I always take the time to point out politely that sometimes their prices are wrong, a lot of the time I get flamed for doing so but sometimes the people are surprised and really quite nice about it. I have nice lengthy discussions and often close a trade on a completely unrelated item.
Racthoh
Gaile said that ecto will have a point in Chapter 2, so getting them for cheap is fine by me.
I always sell everything I get to the rare material trader. I'm not going to waste the time trying to find someone, who won't try to pull a scam, and is willing to buy it for the few extra hundred gold pieces that I could just sell it for. In all that time you could be spamming your sell message you could've just earned that back by joining up a group and playing the game.
I always sell everything I get to the rare material trader. I'm not going to waste the time trying to find someone, who won't try to pull a scam, and is willing to buy it for the few extra hundred gold pieces that I could just sell it for. In all that time you could be spamming your sell message you could've just earned that back by joining up a group and playing the game.
coolsti
Sorry Stargazer, I always sell everything worth selling to the merchants, including ectos and shards. I for one can't be bothered standing around some outpost or town yelling WTS ...
SilentAssassin
same here, if i find something like runes wich are worth selling to merchants, I will do this, I am not going to yell 3 hours WTS ... so that I maybe have 1k more..
ghostlyranger
selling the ecto to merchant is not playing the game properly ??
let see who is the kids here that care so much about how other ppl play the game
let see who is the kids here that care so much about how other ppl play the game
Keyote
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Originally Posted by Star Gazer
its really not anets fault that they opened a good place for noobs to collect all the ecto they can get their hands on. I think it is crap that ecto is so easily obtained now. It has to do with those 13-15 year old kids and say OMFG DOOD LOOK IM RECH NOW I GOTS ME AN ECT0! and sell for quick cash at merchant...sigh, I guess you cant really teach everyone how to properly play the game ;]
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I mean you say people going into the new dungeon are noobs, you whine about ectos being too easy to get, then say they cant play the game properly just because they play differently to you. People with your attitude are usually kids.
Angel Develin
OMG not selling to merchent? w8 till price for the items we keep go'e high o_O this is just a game the only thing I hear is not ecto but Greeed Greed, give me more, I want more, must have more. geeee and you guys say the 13 year olds are the 1 that are not playing it right??? lmao I think that in some way's they are playing it like it should be. They want to have fun and If some new player find a ecto he or she can sell it fast and get 5-6 k and buy a new armour or weapon so whay should they w8 for the prices to go up? I think that its you ecto guys that are keeping the gold value so low.
msmolke
lol...it totally depends on what side of the spectrum you are on. when i first started farming uw I would immediately sell my ectos in TOA when i got back because i needed the cash. With this money i could go purchase things such as runes and other stuff that was more important to me being able to develop my character.
today ive been sitting around in toa spamming WTB ectos 6.5k each for the rest of my fow armor. its not worth my time to go farm them out since i have the money to purchase the rest of them. but now im buying them from people just like myself a few months ago when i was broke and needed to sell the ectos i had to make a few bux here and there.
no one is newb or not newb for selling, hanging onto ectos, or even buying them, it just matters what is worth more to the individual person at that point in the game they are currently at.
today ive been sitting around in toa spamming WTB ectos 6.5k each for the rest of my fow armor. its not worth my time to go farm them out since i have the money to purchase the rest of them. but now im buying them from people just like myself a few months ago when i was broke and needed to sell the ectos i had to make a few bux here and there.
no one is newb or not newb for selling, hanging onto ectos, or even buying them, it just matters what is worth more to the individual person at that point in the game they are currently at.
sno
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Originally Posted by Star Gazer
its really not anets fault that they opened a good place for noobs to collect all the ecto they can get their hands on. I think it is crap that ecto is so easily obtained now. It has to do with those 13-15 year old kids and say OMFG DOOD LOOK IM RECH NOW I GOTS ME AN ECT0! and sell for quick cash at merchant...sigh, I guess you cant really teach everyone how to properly play the game ;]
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) and then everyone started doing it. This game is all about proper builds, and is MEANT to be 'easy' once you have the strategy/build perfected. It's certainly not ANET's fault that a couple people perfected a build and then EVERYONE started using it. They even tried preventing it (with the nerfed drop rate and added monsters,) but the smarter ones adapted, and fed it right back to the masses.
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Effendi Westland
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Originally Posted by Energizer Deth Buni
Please check the price of Ecto on the vendors before you start selling them. At one point this week the price at the vendor had jumped back to 8 or 8.5. The vendor was buying them for 6.5k and I found people in TOA selling them for 6k????? Thank you for undercutting the already miserably low prices of Ecto. And does anyone know if Ectos are going to be used in the next Chapter? Thanks
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Former Ruling
Gasp at the fact, but there ARE people that don't care for spending alot of time doing anything. Time is Money. They might not want to log into other towns to sell it, or have to bargain for 10 for minutes to get 500 more gold - So they just sell them for what they know will be off their hands in 2 minutes.
Manic Smile
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Originally Posted by Star Gazer
its really not anets fault that they opened a good place for noobs to collect all the ecto they can get their hands on. I think it is crap that ecto is so easily obtained now. It has to do with those 13-15 year old kids and say OMFG DOOD LOOK IM RECH NOW I GOTS ME AN ECT0! and sell for quick cash at merchant...sigh, I guess you cant really teach everyone how to properly play the game ;]
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Originally Posted by Optime
Can anyone explain this for me, please?
Thanks, Optime/Zanpaku To |
myword
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Originally Posted by Star Gazer
well see, if people were smart about it (hint hint), noone would sell a thing to the trader. they would say to themselves 'hmm, didn't I see ecto going for 14k a couple weeks ago? I think I will hold on to it until they go back up to make ::gasp:: MORE MONEY!' i mean honestly, its common sense. i guess people just lack that
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Grim Daddy
If anyone has ever tracked the prices of Green Items, they'd know that as soon as players started finding ways to farm Sorrow's Furnace the prices to these items went dramatically down as the market became flooded with them. The truth of the matter is that, without any sort of way to grasp the market firmly, the price offered for the ecto's both by the merchants & the players will continue to go down, so long as these new supplies keep coming in.
dgb
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Originally Posted by Star Gazer
well see, if people were smart about it (hint hint), noone would sell a thing to the trader. they would say to themselves 'hmm, didn't I see ecto going for 14k a couple weeks ago? I think I will hold on to it until they go back up to make ::gasp:: MORE MONEY!' i mean honestly, its common sense. i guess people just lack that
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Kais Unduli
I'll take my 6k now instead of my 6.5k 2 hours from now, thank you very much.
Asrial
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I'll take my 6k now instead of my 6.5k 2 hours from now, thank you very much. |
Besides. There's only two money brackets that are important. Dirt poor and massively rich.
Unless you're massively rich, what really are you going to be buying that you NEED all that money for?
I've played since the game was released and I have about 225k without major merchanting (I've had 1 auction of any worth, which was 100k and most everything I come across I merchant unless it's rare and then I'll auction it), but want to know the cool thing? I've never been unable to get something I felt I 'needed' (IE: armor, runes, certain weapon mods).
Lord Thud
I think everyone is missing the point of the thread here. You see Energizer bought this game to have fun. And the other 999,999 of us who also bought the game did the same so Energizer could have fun. Honestly that's why I shelled out the same amount of money he did. I want HIS game experience to be the best. I mean really, is there any other point in playing? Frankly, I've always wondered why the box didn't read "Energizer's Guild Wars".
Xenrath
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Originally Posted by Optime
I really don't know why people complain that the ecto prices are too low. I just cannot understand it. Isn't a reduced ecto price better? Isn't it good that these materials are now more accessible to 'noobs'? (Also, why are they noobs? Because they don't farm the UW and therefore don't have loads of ecto? Hmm?)
Can anyone explain this for me, please? Thanks, Optime/Zanpaku To |
Gildor Took
some ppl complain because now fow isn't as "Special" as it once when u needed to be really rich to be able to afford it.
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good....for...you
*edit* too those feeling sorry about thier ecto/fow armor
good....for...you
*edit* too those feeling sorry about thier ecto/fow armor
Kook~NBK~
I've seen all kinds of things being sold for way too little or way too much. In either case, I'll whisper to the person that they should check the prices at the merchants. And 99% of the time I get a thank you, the other 1% is no reply at all. (the trick to getting this kind of response is to be polite when you're whispering them ) Standing around selling stuff gets boring, so people are glad to know that they may be asking too much for something, while at the same time they (mostly) don't want to be selling stuff too cheaply.
As for the Ecto prices, from what I hear, it's not dropping any more often than it was in the UW. People in Tombs aren't farming for ecto, they're working for those new greens. So, many of them are just selling the ecto to merchants to clear out their inventories - that's their choice. As it was your choice to spend all that money on FoW armor - regardless of how much ecto cost when you did.
(FoW armor's ugly stuff anyway, don't know why anyone would want it - with the possible exception of the female mesmer's stuff - IMHO)
) Standing around selling stuff gets boring, so people are glad to know that they may be asking too much for something, while at the same time they (mostly) don't want to be selling stuff too cheaply. As for the Ecto prices, from what I hear, it's not dropping any more often than it was in the UW. People in Tombs aren't farming for ecto, they're working for those new greens. So, many of them are just selling the ecto to merchants to clear out their inventories - that's their choice. As it was your choice to spend all that money on FoW armor - regardless of how much ecto cost when you did.
(FoW armor's ugly stuff anyway, don't know why anyone would want it - with the possible exception of the female mesmer's stuff - IMHO)
Avarre
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(FoW armor's ugly stuff anyway, don't know why anyone would want it - with the possible exception of the female mesmer's stuff - IMHO)
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Imho its much harder to get ecto from new tombs than Uw... I rarely see ecto drop there, if ever. Maybe 2-3 from the entire run. Compare that to the 2~ ecto per smite run, every day, of huge amounts of 2man teams...
Eet GnomeSmasher
Ok this is both hilarious and really sad. Actually complaining that ecto prices are too low?!? 6k a piece for something that you need at least 100 of is NOT cheap. That's 600k right there...
And the perception that you're somehow elite or special just because you can farm, farm and farm for ectos is pathetic. What's even more pathetic are people so afraid that they'll no longer be "special" that they start hurling insults at those who think ectos should be a "low" prices. I'm looking at you Stargazer.
Dont get me wrong... I probably will never get FOW armor because none of them really catch my eye. But I've always thought the prices were just too ridiculous. So before people like Linsys, accuse me of being a "noob" and wanting FOW Armor "easy"... I'M NOT GETTING FOW ARMOR.
And the perception that you're somehow elite or special just because you can farm, farm and farm for ectos is pathetic. What's even more pathetic are people so afraid that they'll no longer be "special" that they start hurling insults at those who think ectos should be a "low" prices. I'm looking at you Stargazer.
Dont get me wrong... I probably will never get FOW armor because none of them really catch my eye. But I've always thought the prices were just too ridiculous. So before people like Linsys, accuse me of being a "noob" and wanting FOW Armor "easy"... I'M NOT GETTING FOW ARMOR.