Guild Wars 2

A couple days ago i recieved a Permanent trading post contract from a black lion chest which i then posted for 1,170 gold on the trading post. I was the lowest poster at the time with only 4 other posts above me. Now my item hasnt sold and there are a total of 12 posts of this item and the lowest selling price is 545 gold.

Was the drop rate of this item adjusted or are people just dumping it on the market?

Bunch of returning players trying to make a quick buck. Considering the low volume trade for the item, and utter uselessness to the public, 1170g sounds way too steep to be worthwhile for almost anyone. At least the merchant and bank have usefulness in the field to deal with junk items and rare finds…. but you can perform ALL TP functions, except pick up, from where anywhere. And if you pick up, its usually crafting related…. otherwise it could easily wait.

I understand that it is not as useful as the other perma contracts but to my knowledge and gw2 spidy the postings have been pretty steady over 1k gold for quite awhile. The assumption that it is dropping so much due to returning players could make sense due to the DLC feeling so close to being here.

you can pickup from anywhere, too. just jump into HotM, visit the trader, pull up the interface and click ‘exit’

You’re exactly where you were before.

Troll.4237:

I understand that it is not as useful as the other perma contracts but to my knowledge and gw2 spidy the postings have been pretty steady over 1k gold for quite awhile. The assumption that it is dropping so much due to returning players could make sense due to the DLC feeling so close to being here.

ANet almost never deliberately changes the drop rates on things like this. When they do, they almost always say something.

I think, however, you need to look further back in the history of the item.

• The item was only at low supply very briefly; that’s typical of such low-drop-rate items.
• More frequently, the supply has been 20-25 and the price tends to be closer to 300-600g at those times.
• When some people see the high price the item attracts for low supply, they pull it out of storage to sell, which panics other sellers, who then drop their asking price to make sure they got “a lot” of gold before the market bottoms out.

tl;dr the price you are seeing now is consistent with the item’s historical value, which itself is consistent with the historical ebb|flow of supply.