You know I usualy sell elemental photons for about 20 meseta a pop.... even the much desired ray photon. I decided to do a test to see just how much people would pay for them. I placed 10 Ray Photons for sale at 40k EACH. Now I wasn't expecting anyone seriously looking for them to buy it...but not half a minute after putting them on sale I found someone had popped into my room and actualy bought them....all of them. I sat there looking at my shop thinking "Wtf man?!"
You have to keep it in context of what price players are asking for 9* weapons and lineshields.
Some in the tens of millions.
When the games economy is screwed and mesata is easily got, then the old inflation kicks in.
I sell mine from 900-5000, 5000 for ray photons, I can live with that. I know people buy mine and sell them in their own shop, one even told me when he was buying them (blacklisted)
lol! Now you're 400k richer, even though you didn't want to be! lol!On 2007-01-20 14:44, Dragon_Knight wrote:
You know I usualy sell elemental photons for about 20 meseta a pop.... even the much desired ray photon. I decided to do a test to see just how much people would pay for them. I placed 10 Ray Photons for sale at 40k EACH. Now I wasn't expecting anyone seriously looking for them to buy it...but not half a minute after putting them on sale I found someone had popped into my room and actualy bought them....all of them. I sat there looking at my shop thinking "Wtf man?!"
As a test I stuck a ray photon (just 1) in my shop earlier for 30k. It sold.
If you're interested in being legit... well, craft with your photons. If you're going to sell them, I don't see any point to intentionally selling them for a "fair" price and denying yourself money. The economy is just too far gone at this point
It doesn't seem like such a big deal to me. Since everyone has more money, you're ultimately paying more or less the same % of your income as you would normally, perhaps a bit more since everyone is synthing an ungodly number of weapons. Even so, a single run of LL A gives you about 5-10 photons of various elements, they really aren't that hard to come by if you work for them normally. Then again, that might take time, and considdering I still synth all the A rank woods from C rank wood, I may not be one to talk.
I never buy photons just because it's absurd. I'd rather spend hours doing missions to get them then give them that much money. Especially considering the weapon can fail, or come out some crap percent, it's not worth it to me to pay 10k a photon.
THE JACKEL
On 2007-01-20 13:46, Palefire wrote:
There really isn't any such thing as "market value": just a glance through random shops reveals pricing with neither rhyme nor reason to it.On 2007-01-20 13:37, nooblet wrote:
My honest opinion is to price your photons base on the market value.
See "Definition of Market Value" from dictionary.com:
"noun 1. the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value). "
See "Definition of Open Market" from dictionary.com:
"open market
–noun an unrestricted, competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate."
Looks like nooblet was right after all.
Cute, but you might want to re-read what you cut & pasted: this isn't an "open market" because it isn't competitive by any stretch of the imagination. Hello, duped Meseta. You can't have an open market when so much of the money in it is, essentially, counterfeit. Thus, "any buyer" isn't "free to participate": new players aren't, for one, because they generally lack Meseta if they play legitimately.On 2007-01-20 15:12, Axel3792 wrote:
See "Definition of Market Value" from dictionary.com:
"noun 1. the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value). "
See "Definition of Open Market" from dictionary.com:
"open market
–noun an unrestricted, competitive market in which any buyer and seller is free to participate."
Looks like nooblet was right after all.
Thus, no real "market value" -- not when you've got an artificially-inflated economy and a simple elemental Photon can be priced anywhere between 15K to the maximum price that can be set within a store. In a true open market, you'd have a much smaller margin that would be determined by what buyers would be willing to pay.
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I'm thinking of doing 1 of 2 things, and I want your opinion:
1) Selling photons and other things at the real fair prices (300m for elemental photons)
or 2) Selling photons for the insane prices and dumping the money off in missions, thus creating a money sink.
Well, based on the above I've been testing sales of photons at various prices to see what happens. On one hand, I'm hoping it works. On the other hand, I'm afraid I'm going to get some wildly skewed results.
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