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Kinda stumbled onto this by accident, but some weird shit went down on the AH on sunday. Items like Potent Belt and Woodsville's Axe were jacked up in price from 70kish to 330k by the same group of buyers and sellers.

Also, these same people "lowered" the price on Siren's Hair, Wind Torque, Chiv Chain, Elemental Torque, D Cloth and maybe some others. They were pretty good at switching up who was buying and selling and what the exact price was, but they all were either buying or selling the same group of items for the out of whack prices.

Without FFXIAH it would be impossible/difficult to catch this, but its quite obvious when you view these players on FFXIAH and look at extended price history. So yea...don't go selling your items from way below the standard price just because of the AH History in-game, I see a few legit players might have been caught up in it. No idea what their motive is for lowering some items, suppose there must be something.


Edit: Also looks like they are doing it on other servers. Asura and Bismark stick out to me atm. It seems more complex on Asura though, and incredibly confusing. You have them (obvious gil sellers from price history) buying and selling to eachother for 50k on potent belt, then the next day you have obvious gil sellers buying and selling to eachother for 330kish on potent belt. So what the fuck...the history on FFXIAH doesnt even go back far enough to really know what the price is/was on Asura for potent belt. Obviously this deals with many more items, but mostly similar ones to our server.
 
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Wow thats messed up.........

If gil sellers are doing it... how is SE gunna catch them exactly?
 
Well, apparently its old fuckin news, first time ive caught it happening though. Wish SE would stop with the free accounts already.
 
This isn't the first time this has happened, but the first time seems like it was a good while ago now, and I'm surprised they haven't employed this tactic more often. As far as legality, I'm pretty sure price-fixing is blatantly against the ToS, so a dozen or so reports should end these peoples parade pretty quickly.
 
Old news is old.
 
Also looks like they are doing it on other servers. Asura and Bismark stick out to me atm. It seems more complex on Asura though, and incredibly confusing. You have them (obvious gil sellers from price history) buying and selling to eachother for 50k on potent belt, then the next day you have obvious gil sellers buying and selling to eachother for 330kish on potent belt. So what the fuck...the history on FFXIAH doesnt even go back far enough to really know what the price is/was on Asura for potent belt. Obviously this deals with many more items, but mostly similar ones to our server.
Yeah, a buddy of mine in my shell pointed out the Asura thing going on. It's a buyer's market from anyone silly enough to sell things like Snipers at that price, but it is pretty weird that they're undercutting themselves.
 
Oh what the fucking shit. I just bought a Elemental Torque for 300k and now its 100k.
 
Oh what the fucking shit. I just bought a Elemental Torque for 300k and now its 100k.

make a good times thread about it!

nah im kidding dude, im sorry :(
 
Thanks, I'm glad you filled me in on this, I don't think I would have known without you.
Ok let's rephrase that. There's a new thread on qcdn about it ever 6~8 weeks. Bg has them more often. Almost all high ticket items on
ffxiAH have multiple comments per item about this. The STFU included this phenomena in their reports. And to top it off this topic was "hot news" for at least a month or two straight about a year or so ago.
So yes. old news is old and considering your apparent ability to not notice the plethora of info about this or even search for it to make sure you weren't repeating anything you apparently did have to be filled in on this.
 
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