BOYCOT THE BAZZARFollow

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!!!!!!!!!

yup, why anon people can post is beyond me.

Try the "I'm behind a firewall at work and they won't let me register" excuse. Complete and utter ******** of course, but fun to watch people try and pull off!

I don't like you Mr. Anonymous poster... Go away, Thanks.

No one forces you to use the Bazaar. I don't have a doubt that most items in the game can be obtained in places other than the Bazaar, but are most players willing to go to the trouble(myself included)? No. The Bazaar provides a much more efficient means of getting what you want, when you want it. The days of EC auctioning were fun, but they're over now, after being replaced by something better.

As far as new players being too broke to afford items in the Bazaar, you aren't supposed to start off being able to buy a lamentation. Level up and earn the items for sale, don't expect the majority of the playerbase to leave something good so you can get cheaper prices.

How much does a premium membership here cost.. I think it is $10.00 for 3 months isn't it? Thats $3.33/month, you would have to be a Millionaire to come up with that kind of money.

I won't boycott the bazaar, but instead simply refuse to pay outrageous prices. I'll do without rather than waste plat.

It's not like I'm in a race to get anywhere...

(obviously... I'm STILL in my teens although everyone is 19 and three are just a couple kills away from 20 - I want to turn all 4 characters 20 on the same day. Why? Minor sense of accomplishment)

Edited, Mon Jan 5 11:52:54 2004 by Mikeinsb

how do you get a free account?! Please tell me how to register for free, Ty!

I would have a membership if my mom and dad were willing to pay for it. Though a guild member lets me use his membership for Seachs and all. I rather not use it unless i need to search.

Just to add on about free registration without being Anon, I registered this morning *for* free and am not Anon and never will be if i can help it.

Click on Login/Admin... on the left hand panel and choose your name,... the only way you can be *set* to anon is if you choose in your options to be seen as Anon, you should not begin this way.

If you think you were set to anon automatically, it doesn't matter if i'm right or not, you can go to Your Account on the left panel under Login/Admin... and choose not to post anonymously.

Don't fear lack of control or other people's opinions... cherish them for that is what makes us grow and what makes life fun. I learn more from my mistakes and from listening wisely than from the many times i felt that i knew everything perfectly fine myself.

Traifin
Quote:"Every man longs for an adventure to live and a maiden to save. Every maiden longs for an adventure to share and a man to save her". Wild at Heart.

I have to join with the majority opinion on this subject. I too use the bazaar regularly and will continue to do so. Prices often do get ridiculously high there, (5+pp for a spiderling silk, 8-15pp for a spider silk for example), but you don't have to buy the stuff. I don't, not at those prices, and I have, by being careful, patient, and taking my time, found some very nice deals on some usually high end stuff. I also buy low and sell high there when the opportunity presents itself. I'm not rich, but I have managed to aquire some decent enough gear and still maintain a few K of plat in the bank. Keep the baz, learn to work it, and quit yer sniv'ling.

Stahn

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.