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Start higher get more points faster.

Originally Posted by xuvrette

That ... do sounds... A LOT!~ O__O
*pets HUmmy*

yes, a lot.
i was filling them by first wished first filled.
then i saw a lot of people just wished and left.
so i am now filling them by the most posted or the most gifted posters.
~LONGCAT~ gave a lot of gifties to a lot of RAK members and so i am trying to fill his whole mini~wishie list.

Clock will try,
and probably fail

go hummylove go~
oh hummylove; if you do have an extra sunny side up,
would you propose a trade for the EI set?

hmm, i'll have to give it some thought, clockie.
i have a ton of things to purchase for mini~wishies, still.
i'll hold the sunny side up for you.

you take as long as you need, okay.
no rush, whatsoever.
if you have a better price you come up with,
let Clock know <3

i stink at haggling.
i never sell for what the marketplace has an item for.
i do 2.5k for my contribution items.
i should maybe stop doing that.

thats why Clock goes with the average price,
it's usually not too high or too low,
and 2.5k in Clocks opinion is reasonable.

yeah, but i tend to not go with the average price.
i should, to earn goldies.

well for the new CIs of the month,
Clock wouldn't go with average price.

Clock always assumed it would be 2.5k

I think it would soon to be reaching 3k soon....
I am very used to CI cost 2k.
The inflation is really bad...

some people are selling them for more than 3k already.
it's crazy.

D:
During the last day of event, the listing for bubbly was 4k. XD

Clock thinks that's a bit crazy.

yeah but a lot of people only make their goldies by selling.
some people only sell by the highest marketplace prrice.
to each their own.

Clock finds that the highest is way too high,
but you're right, to each their own.

Clock hopes that Clock can be reasonable when it comes to selling things.

For Sil, the price depends a lot on how often items are sold. Marketplace average is hardly reliable when an item hasn't been sold for months, or when since the MP was introduced, there have only been a handful of sales.

With recent items that are often sold, Sil hangs around MP average. For other items, Sil picks a point between average and high that sounds reasonable to her.

Oh, and hey Clockie. XD

that makes sense, Sil.
Clock never really considered that.

and hey <3

Especially as high-value items are often traded rather than sold through the MP because many people don't have the pure gold for them lying around. Which means that only part of the items that were sold are actually reflected in the MP's average.

Clock doesn't really have high priced items.
so Clock probably won't have that problem.

but that is a problem.
Clock doesn't exactly understand how the pricing of items work, per se.
which is probably a bad thing.
Clock will probably only ever sell low key items.

Pretty simple - supply and demand.

Supply: There tends to be overstock of easily gained EIs which takes a long time to solve itself, if ever, depending on the amounts by which they were gained. Easter '10 Eggs are a great example of these. On the opposite site, you have one-item-per-account items, because that means at most one spare (one mule with item) for people to sell.
CIs in months with bonus-item tends to be slightly overstocked as well, especially if the bonus item comes only per x sets/CIs bought with x in case of the number of sets higher than 1 (or sole CIs higher than 2), and the month directly after tends to be in far lower supply because most people spent extra money the bonus-item month and thus don't have the money to buy as many CI sets as they usually do in the month after.

Furthermore, the older an item, the rarer it tends to be, because a lot of them are "locked up" in the meaning of people having only one, which they don't want to sell. This especially goes for items around the time Mene still had only a small number of people - such as the earliest CIs and EIs.

Demand... based partially on the quality of the items (well-done items sell better than poorly done) and their theme (items that combine well with other items or with common themes for avatars sell better than items that only are interesting to a small group of people/are limited in the ways they can be used), partially on their rarity (some items are sought after as much because they are a status symbol as because of the item's actual merit), somewhat influenced also by the time of the year or events. Around winter, wintery-themed items tend to be sought after for fitting avatars. Around Valentine, love-themed or pink/red/purple-coloured items are sought after because they fit well with the event.

Furthermore, gold also plays a role. The more gold is available in the community (and the easier it is to get) , the higher the prices can be. You generally don't put something up for sale at a price no-one can pay. This is why gold sinks, such as the commons, are important. If gold keeps stacking up, inflation becomes worse and worse.

got it.
Clock has a crap-ton of those easter eggs.
o.o

sometimes inflation just seems a bit crazy to Clock,
especially with certain EIs.

-gives thread love-

*gives clockie♥sweetie love*

-gives thread love-

*gives clockiefishie loves*