Anonymous wrote:
OK. this mess age is about boycotting the bazzar. If your a newbie who has little plat or a more exp. player looking for good deals on rare items YOU WILL NEVER FIND prices that are good. after this sudden spurt in the quest for money prices have gone up BY ALOT! a lammy used to sell for 400-700 plat prices have almost doubled from the old max price. 1.4K fo a lammy is insane. SO PLEASE SPREAD MY WORD ABOUT BOYCOTTING THE BAZZAR!!!!!!!!!
Of course, your biggest problem is that you're not shopping around. If all you do is try to buy the most popular or well-known item, then of course you're going to pay for it. Mostly because every other half-wit on the server is competing with you for the same overpriced item.
The bazaar has done amazing things for lowering prices and making items that would otherwise never get sold worth selling. Your idea that "you will nevver dind prices that are good" is so flawed it's not even funny. Let's see. Last night I bought a planar lance of thunder (or something like that). A 30/32 weapon for... Not 5k. Not 2k. Not even 1k. 150pp.
When the bazaar first came out, I equipped my wizard with gear that increased his AC by something like 100 points, his HPs by around 200, and his int by over 50. All for something like 600pp.
If you're willing to actually look at the slots you need to upgrade, and then actually take the time to plug in the criteria you want into your search, and then actually look at all the selections available, you can find some amazingly good deals.
The problem is you get people who hear "A lammy is the best weapon for classX at level Y", so they go and look at just that weapon and dispair that the prices are so high. Meanwhile, if that same person had simply punched in 1hs and his class/race, he could have found a half dozen weapons of similar quality to a lammy for 1/3rd the price.
The bazaar allows for bargain shopping in a way the old trade system never did. People expect to make some return for their time. When you can go into vendor mode overnight, suddenly it's worth putting a bag full of 50-100pp items for sale simply because that's more then you'd get selling to a vendor and it doesn't cost you anything more to offer them for sale. Back in the day, folks would just vendor "junk" because it took more time to sell it then it was worth.
And as they say: One mans trash is another mans treasure. Stuff that I may consider junk is probably a very nice upgrade for most folks under the level of 50. You'll find a hell of a lot of it in the bazaar if you just take the time to look.