Guild Wars 2

The Halloween “skin” items will no longer drop from black lion chests come Nov.15 as I understand. I’ve bought a few of them hoping to turn a profit as I remember this type of stuff becoming really expensive in GW1 after the holidays ended. Note I’m talking about things like the greatsaw, grinning shield, etc with “skin” in the item name and not the mad moon, crossing, and arachnaphobia weapons which are craftable. Once the end of supply comes on the 15th for those skins, how high do you think they’ll go and when do you think would be the ideal time to sell? Is it worth investing as much as I can?

As an anecdote, the prices already went really high the day before Halloween which I’m guessing people “thought” would be the last day these skins were available in the chests. That day, the majority of the listings for every skin were bought out in the course of only a few hours which was crazy. I kind of expect that to happen again tomorrow??

Well I already bought 1700gems, but as much as I want the halloween skins, I would like to get the new ones first. Imo the halloween skins would go really expensive since the shield and the GS are sooo awesome! I woulda wait like few weeks atleast and keep checking the prices everyday

Draege.3102:

As an anecdote, the prices already went really high the day before Halloween which I’m guessing people “thought” would be the last day these skins were available in the chests. That day, the majority of the listings for every skin were bought out in the course of only a few hours which was crazy. I kind of expect that to happen again tomorrow??

Odd, that is not what I see on the TP. Not on http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36340

The greatsaw skin currently costs 28g, the shield skin 19g95s.

Short answer is probably No. Let me explain.

Obviously in the long run, the price will rise as there is a finite supply. Here’s the thing though, lots, and by lots I mean seriously large amount, of people have already thought of this and I expect have quite a few stored hoping to make a quick buck.

The problem is, most people who actually want the skin probably already went out and purchased one. So now we have a situation where we will have lots of supply and little demand, and the demand isn’t likely to increase much.

Sure there will be a few new players looking at getting a ‘rare’ skin so some will be sold, but there are going to be plenty of other skins to acquire. Christmas is 6 weeks away, I’m sure that’ll bring a bunch of skins, and hell in a couple of days a major content is about to be released which is likely to introduce some new cool looking armor.

So I just don’t think it’s a great short term investment. Give it 6 months and you’ll probably earn a nice profit. You could think really long term, and make a killing but this only works if they don’t re-release the same skins again next year Halloween completely resetting the market.

tertle.4621:

You could think really long term, and make a killing but this only works if they don’t re-release the same skins again next year Halloween completely resetting the market.

Which they almost certainly will.

Tallis.5607:

Draege.3102:

As an anecdote, the prices already went really high the day before Halloween which I’m guessing people “thought” would be the last day these skins were available in the chests. That day, the majority of the listings for every skin were bought out in the course of only a few hours which was crazy. I kind of expect that to happen again tomorrow??

Odd, that is not what I see on the TP. Not on http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36340

The greatsaw skin currently costs 28g, the shield skin 19g95s.

Switch to the month view and look at the huge spike on Oct31. I’m expecting this in the next 2 days.

Exclusive items will extinct through time. When they’re extinct, they become rare. I heard it’s an exclusive, which means that it’ll never be released again. They will increase in price but it’ll takes time. It can take a month or even 2 years.

They will go up in price. However it’s a very long term investment and there’s a lot more supply than there was before. Still, 10 months is a long time.

Most likely, in the time you’d have to sit on them in your bank, you could have used the money you would have spent on them and made much more money through the TP on more conventional item flips.

But the TP is fickle, so who knows.

Looks like people are starting to buy out all the skins. The listed quantity is dropping fast.