Never admit to being a Marketeer in game...

[SomeGuy]

3 hours ago, Ukase said:

Why would you allow anyone the opportunity to get an item substantially cheaper than what YOU would have to pay for it if you needed it? Is it really just laziness? Or is it boredom? Something else maybe.  

 

Close. In the grand scheme of things for how I play? I don't care. If someone gets a 500k piece of salvage for 5inf (which has never happened to me)? They win. Good. I hate market PVP anyways. I literally GAVE away 100s of billions of inf on live because of it. This isn't even real money. I don't care.

Edited Sunday at 03:37 PM by SomeGuy

[tidge]

"last 5 items" database issue

 

EDIT: I suppose it is possible that some items get quick-listed for 1 Inf, but usually when I see multiple winning bids for relatively low amounts... I believe display bug before someone being ultra-casual about listing useful pieces. It has happened before, when players rage-quit over reward changes... but it hasn't appeared to be common.

Edited 14 hours ago by tidge

[Hedgefund]

The "display bug" has been fixed for quite some time, coming up on years now.

 

As for players yoinking low ask prices with lowball bids, although I'm not active in the market sometimes I see something too good to pass up and I'll nab a few pieces at the low prices, so yes, people can grab desirable items at low prices, regardless of belief.

[Triumphant]

2 hours ago, tidge said:

"last 5 items" database issue

 

EDIT: I suppose it is possible that some items get quick-listed for 1 Inf, but usually when I see multiple winning bids for relatively low amounts... I believe display bug before someone being ultra-casual about listing useful pieces. It has happened before, when players rage-quit over reward changes... but it hasn't appeared to be common.

 

I've never seen anything show in the list as for sale for 1 inf, but I sell everything from white salvage to purple enhancements at 1 influence each.  Maybe sometimes things actually do sell for 1 influence?  I've never had that happen, but I suppose it might be the case. 

If it is the case, whether that's by design or a bug, I have no idea. 

[Yomo Kimyata]

25 minutes ago, Triumphant said:

 

I've never seen anything show in the list as for sale for 1 inf, but I sell everything from white salvage to purple enhancements at 1 influence each.  Maybe sometimes things actually do sell for 1 influence?  I've never had that happen, but I suppose it might be the case. 

If it is the case, whether that's by design or a bug, I have no idea. 

 

Things do indeed sell for 1inf, but not often.  Since 1 is the minimum offer, you will automatically sell to any outstanding bid (which by definition has to be greater than zero) as soon as you post it.  The only way you will actually sell something at 1 is if:  1. 1 inf is the highest outstanding bid when you make your offer; 2. there are no outstanding bids at all, you make your listing at 1 (and this is the only time you will actually see in your /AH an outstanding item listed at 1), and the next bidder to enter the system puts in their bid at 1.

 

Generally, I list/bid at 5 inf out of habit.

[UltraAlt]

8 hours ago, Triumphant said:

I've never seen anything show in the list as for sale for 1 inf, but I sell everything from white salvage to purple enhancements at 1 influence each.  

 

I sell my white and yellow salvage, all non-set IO recipes, and all set IO recipes for sets that I don't feel sell well at 1 influence.

 

8 hours ago, Triumphant said:

Maybe sometimes things actually do sell for 1 influence?  I've never had that happen, but I suppose it might be the case. 

 

@Yomo Kimyata is correct. If you post at 1, any outstanding bid will buy it with the highest bid being filled first. If you post at 1 and there are no bids, the next bid that is placed for the item - regardless of the amount - will automatically purchase the item.

I would say it is more likely that you will sell at 1 on an item that has outstanding bids than you are to on an item with no bids listed. I don't think most players are going to bother bidding at 1 unless they see that past bids have gone through at 1.

 

I'm not sure of your intent/goal in order to insure that people buy your white salvage to purple enhancements for 1 influence each.

 

If you really want to gain the lowest amount possible for your sales, let me suggest something else instead.

Most players do not set their characters up so that they don't accept random trades. Simply walk up to a character, and pull the item from your tray/window and drop it on their character. And, yeah, that works pretty much 99% of the time.

You can always case-the-joint by checking out the targets level, origin, power sets, etc. of a character before performing the Ebil Marketing tactic of targeted reallocation. This way you can give your SO's to those with the correct level and origin to use them or still need to level up in order to use them. You can give them enhancements or recipes that will be useful in slotting their power sets. 

I think you get the idea.

 

 

[Triumphant]

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I'm not sure of your intent/goal in order to insure that people buy your white salvage to purple enhancements for 1 influence each.

 

My goal isn't really to get as little as possible for my sales.  It's just to simplify and expedite the process, so I spend as little time as possible doing the selling of it.  The only reason I sell things is to get enough influence to outfit any characters I want to equip.  I get many of millions of influence for selling my good stuff at 1 inf, which allows me to outfit my toons, so I don't need to spend time setting the price (or converting, flipping, and selling, or anything else.  Although, I do farm occasionally.  I don't mind doing that so much.  At least I'm playing the game after a fashion, when I'm doing it).

 

I do also sometimes sell things at 11 or 111 influence, by accident, if my "1" key sticks on my keyboard (which it occasionally does).