This is getting me mad

Sorry, still don't agree. Perfect items already show in most of their significant price increase over even perfect -1 items.

Any business that isn't selling much and raises their prices, is going to be bankrupt shortly. That is a very very poor business strategy. Even if not a clearance sale, there are discounts and incentives. Look at post 9-11. People were not buying cars, what did the car companies do? 0% interest. People started buying cars again.

There is a difference between pricing an item at a high value because of short natural supply and being driven by what the market will pay for a more readily available, but harder to find item. Perfect mods are not all that uncommon, if they were you wouldn't see so many being advertised. Because they ARE more uncommon (or not on the market as many are in use) their price reflects their uniquness, not their availability as much.

Gold Perfect crystalline or 15% always with no drawback are scarcity driven. I think we can agree that those would be classified in your analogy as "Rolls Royces" right? When they are being sold, even as very very few as they are, if the seller sets the price too high, and gets no bites, do you honestly think he is going to increase the price? He will slightly lower until he finds a price that the market will pay. In this case, your perfect sundering mod, is walmart bargin bin.

It will be easier to agree to disagree. You are still thinking in terms of normal items in a normal market. GW is a CLOSED system that loses more players than it gains on a daily basis. To use your example ... the high end items of the real world didn't even blink from 9/11.

I highly doubt many will back you up on a 30 pommel being a fairly common drop. In 11 months I have had 2 only one salvaged. I am sure my experience is closer to the norm than yours.

True high end items didn't because they were high end due to limited quantity.. ie perfect crystallines. Perfect mods are much more common and akin to new car versus used car for non perfect mods.

Guild wars is a closed system but an open market, a microcosm. All the same elemenets are present.

I am done. Go ahead and start a business with your tactics and report back how that works out for you.

LOL, I own a high end computer company (7 years now). I deal in 30 pommels not the 29s

I'd be inclined to disagree with this one. "Fewer people buying means a decrease in demand, which causes prices to fall." Simple microeconomics. Not to mention that a "closed economy" means items are being stockpiled by people at an increasing rate since the aging population are unable to "absorb" the items and use them themselves. This in turn causes an increase in supply, which also decreases price.

Inflation however, is what drives up prices. For this reason I can see an increase in prices as the amount of gold in the game increases.

GW Death due to a better trading system! NEVER Well... sure the game will get more repeat buyers based on how long they can get people to stay in the game, but I would have to argue that a better system would decrease the grind of buying and selling items, which in turn would make people have more time to enjoy playing that game and thus want to play it more. This would cause happier players that are more likely to buy the next chapters and play the game because it is/was fun.

wow look what happen when i try to sell item cheaper than the chinese farmer------>http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/783/woww5bu.png

The big picture? Short term woes? please read that post again and ask yourself how long have we endured this "short term trade woe?" If you think inflation should exist to cater for players FoW armour all i can say is good for you. gg

*resist motion to swear*

Edit: To the above poster with the SS, send the SS to ANET Support to have them banned. Period.

I may just be in a giddy mood tonight, but that made me lmfao.

They have to grow up eventually.

Maybe I'm just incompetent, but I've been looking around for the GWG auction house for about a week now. Where in the world is it? Where are the links to it?

And ya. It's really easy to slightly manipulate the economy for a short period of time if you know how to play your cards right. Those guys you talked about selling the pommels for over double were morons if they thought they'd really get away with that. A couple guildies were able to buy two Brohn's Staves at 35k back when they were selling for 60k. It might seem a little bit deceitful, but I consider it more along the lines of being thrify/shrewd, which is just how you play the game of economy whether in life or in game. If you know that the prices being offered are absolutely pathetic, though, then just wait a couple hours or just til the next morning to try and buy again.