When you in the games, Auction House is the important place you must come to. But when you come to there, did you find something happen?
Early today, one friends find me and said to me. Sadly he is forced to undercut on his current realm due to douchebag farmers thinking they can set whatever price they feel like. For Instance here is an example of an Level 80 item he saw last night. Spiked Titansteel Helm for 10,000g so he Undercut this idiot and set his buyout at 1600g which was the normal price going on his server, second he saw a level 20 item selling for 1000g so he forced the price to 1g buyout. The point is you will run into idiots who choose to inflate stuff and then you'll see people setting prices that are reasonable to ensure they sell. He always have to watch the behaviors on the AH and use his best judgement. He have noticed blizzard taking several auctions down on his server already due to abuse of course. Atleast the Blizzard GMs are seeing the new trends.
As someone who regularly has dozens of items up for sale in the Auction House, nothing irks me more than seeing someone come along and undercut me, but what annoys the hell out of ME is when they do it by a LARGE amount. When people sell items, surely the first thing they do is check to see what price the said item is currently going for. Say for example that the item you want to sell is up for sale on the AH for 80g Buyout. I would post my item up for 79g 95s 99c, which means my item will sell before the one priced at 80g, but I'm getting almost the same cash. There's nothing honorable about it, but fair's fair, mine's cheaper so it will sell first.
However, I hate it when you see an item that usually sells for a set price, but some smart alec has come along and put it up for a lot less, like 20% or so. It means the market value of that item will drop, so to be able to sell that item, I have to sell it for a lot less too, and anyone else who sells it will follow suit. That's great for the buyer, but not for those of us who are selling, particularly when it's a crafted item.
How about you? Another friends leave his message to me: “On my server, Spiked Titansteel Helm has been selling for around 1800g. I can make one of these every four days from mats collected completely by myself, so that's 100% profit. Yesterday though, someone had started posting these helms up for 1400g - for no reason that I can see other than to be cheaper than anyone else. Now, why do this? Yes he'll sell his helms, but he's making a lot less gold and sooner or later others will drop their price to match his, then he'll have to undercut again. Result - the item becomes worth less and less.” Hope we can hear from you soon.
