Guild Wars 2

Looks like people are trying manipulate the market.
Small fangs are the same price as Fangs. and other Small Materials are close to the price.

Server Darkhaven.

Veign.8694:

Looks like people are trying manipulate the market.
Small fangs are the same price as Fangs. and other Small Materials are close to the price.

Server Darkhaven.

Usually, I never ‘shoot the messenger’ and try to react on the message itself.

But it is hard to believe stories of market manipulation from someone that mentioned the server with the TP screenshot, because it indicates that that person doesn’t even know that the TP is game-wide and not server-wide, one of the basic principles of the TP.

If you do not know the basics of TP, your reports of market manipulation are not very credible.

Tallis.5607:

Veign.8694:

Looks like people are trying manipulate the market.
Small fangs are the same price as Fangs. and other Small Materials are close to the price.

Server Darkhaven.

Usually, I never ‘shoot the messenger’ and try to react on the message itself.

But it is hard to believe stories of market manipulation from someone that mentioned the server with the TP screenshot, because it indicates that that person doesn’t even know that the TP is game-wide and not server-wide, one of the basic principles of the TP.

If you do not know the basics of TP, your reports of market manipulation are not very credible.

Okay. You made your point about the TP being game-wide but the topic here is Price Manipulation. What is your thought of it? What is your thought of the screenshot I took of the prices? Is it average price? or too much? Price Manipulation in general.

>OP

It isn’t so much Supply vs. Demand, but rather pure Demand itself (most likely due to the need to level Crafting). If a lot of people need Small Fangs, and those same people are willing to buy them for high prices, that will end up inflating the cost of each fang. They could wait until the prices dropped, but that would mean not leveling their Craft to the next tier.

Same goes for people selling. Sure you could sell them for 40 copper each. But if there are people with Buy Orders of 1 silver each, guess what you’ll be selling them for.

It isn’t manipulation, but rather the market at work.

There’s been this sort of mismatch at different times and different levels for a while. Last time I looked tier 5 mats were cheaper than tier 4. This is because T5 mats are very common in the most highly farmed areas of the game, but people don’t farm the areas that drop T4 much at all. Those zones are almost empty on my server. It very well could just be supply and demand.

Magikker.9243:

There’s been this sort of mismatch at different times and different levels for a while. Last time I looked tier 5 mats were cheaper than tier 4. This is because T5 mats are very common in the most highly farmed areas of the game, but people don’t farm the areas that drop T4 much at all. Those zones are almost empty on my server. It very well could just be supply and demand.

A+ my friend, couldn’t have said it better myself.