Karl Marx: “Go away! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
An experiment with limited availabilty
Karl Marx: “Go away! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
Before Heavy Bags of Coins were discontinued from the BL Chests, i got 100 of them for under 20 silver. Those bags have a chance to drop between 80c and 1.5g, if you open them. Last year, i opened 1000 of them and got an average of 17s.
To my delight, i noticed last week that someone bought out the remaining stock and listed 1 at 11g. I undercut him by 4g listing at 7g and waited a day. Nothing happened, so i listed another one at 5g. The next day, both of my listings were sold. Until now i already sold 7 of those bags between 3 and 7 gold. Mine were the only new listings in the last week and i guess whoever bought out the stock, is also paying a premium for my listings at the moment.
Me and him might be the only ones right now having any stock left and i am quite happy to feed him my stock slowly….
Bloin – Running around, tagging Keeps, getting whack on Scoobie Snacks.
I don’t really under stand why someone would pay 7g for a bag that can give you nothing more then 1.5g . I guess there are plenty of dumb people in the world, you don’t have to be a member of Mensa to play a MMO it would seem.
very interesting I never realized the heavy Bags of Coins could give that much I always seemed to get around 1 silver. but thank you for sharing
Karl Marx: “Go away! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
very interesting I never realized the heavy Bags of Coins could give that much I always seemed to get around 1 silver. but thank you for sharing
Getting back on topic:
The Mini Karka doesnt have limited availability as it still drops from mobs in Southsun. Personally i got one in July or August last year, way after the event and sold it for 200 gold. The droprate is so low though, that not much get reintroduced into the market.
Bloin – Running around, tagging Keeps, getting whack on Scoobie Snacks.
true I didn’t use the proper terminology, I was originally going to do the experiment with mystic forge conduits but that market kinda went to kitten. I suppose low supply or starting to sell when none are available (for sale) would have been a better title.
Karl Marx: “Go away! Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
The Mini Karka doesnt have limited availability as it still drops from mobs in Southsun. Personally i got one in July or August last year, way after the event and sold it for 200 gold. The droprate is so low though, that not much get reintroduced into the market.
Not to mention Southsun is largely unpopulated and unfarmed, so it’s not as if there are even many chances for the Mini Karka to be rolled to drop.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens to these if we receive an update that involves us returning to Southsun.
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People will pay anything to get something exclusive even if it’s worthless, some of the will do this in hope to sell an exlusive crappy item even higher in the future.
It’s a matter of time before grinning shield will be much more expensive than Eternity.
Before Heavy Bags of Coins were discontinued from the BL Chests, i got 100 of them for under 20 silver. Those bags have a chance to drop between 80c and 1.5g, if you open them. Last year, i opened 1000 of them and got an average of 17s.
To my delight, i noticed last week that someone bought out the remaining stock and listed 1 at 11g. I undercut him by 4g listing at 7g and waited a day. Nothing happened, so i listed another one at 5g. The next day, both of my listings were sold. Until now i already sold 7 of those bags between 3 and 7 gold. Mine were the only new listings in the last week and i guess whoever bought out the stock, is also paying a premium for my listings at the moment.
Me and him might be the only ones right now having any stock left and i am quite happy to feed him my stock slowly….
Just as a follow up:
I I have successfully sold 1 each Heavy Bag of Coins at 10g, 15g, and 20g. Someone else posted one at 25g yesterday, which also got sold. My next posting is at 30g.
The stupidity of people….
Bloin – Running around, tagging Keeps, getting whack on Scoobie Snacks.
The stupidity of people….
These people aren’t buying them to open them. They’re buying them to repeat the pattern you started.