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Price Fixing - Not just for RMT anymore!
 Fairy.Tbest
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-10-12 14:49:47
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Hey there boys and girls! Join Ultimate Synergy and you too can learn how to price fix like a pro!

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O.oa Have a lot of dusk gloves you're looking to sell, Aenemy? Taking the normal price ranging from ~140k-180k and attempting to jack the price up to 300k?

You'd think leaders of end-game shells would be above these types of shenanigans.
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By Bahamut.Fyyvoaa 2009-10-12 14:57:11
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owned.
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By Fenrir.Nightfyre 2009-10-12 15:00:17
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The entry at the very top is funnier than the blatant price-fixing.

If you're going to pull these stunts, at least be somewhat covert about it. Two people alone is pretty unconvincing, though I'm sure crafters are loving it if they're still selling high.
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By Asura.Ludoggy 2009-10-12 15:00:58
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Am I an *** for doing the same thing?
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8751/pricefix.jpg
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-10-12 15:02:54
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Yeah, sad thing is that Sisterb probably had it up for 180k. They sold a pair yesterday for 180k. >.>
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By Fairy.Deist 2009-10-12 15:11:16
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drama ftw
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-10-12 16:31:33
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lol, I just thought it was funny they'd do it. :P
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By Remora.Gempig 2009-10-12 16:56:10
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Ludoggy said:
Am I an *** for doing the same thing?
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8751/pricefix.jpg


yes
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By Fairy.Vytiss 2009-10-12 17:03:26
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are you actually complaining about 100k "price jacking" when you actually lose 400k from NQ synthesis?
omg, get over it... in the time it took you to write in this thread, you could have just made the extra gil yourself and then killed yourself.
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-10-12 17:04:22
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Vytiss said:
are you actually complaining about 100k "price jacking" when you actually lose 400k from NQ synthesis?
omg, get over it... in the time it took you to write in this thread, you could have just made the extra gil yourself and then killed yourself.


so you're saying you're part of the price fixing problem?
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By Garuda.Antipika 2009-10-12 17:05:49
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Who cares, buyers fault to only rely on AH history prior buying an item. Lot of MMOs don't have a such system (no history of transactions at all), and they work perfectly fine. Only noobs gets owned paying more than the -real- item value.

I wish history never existed on FFXI, just like Bazaar transactions, enable you to make money just by buying/reselling since there is always someone for paying more.
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By Ramuh.Dasva 2009-10-12 17:09:35
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Really kind of normal. I mean I think DH had every spawn of Ixion when it came out and the leaders made sure they themselves got all the money drops and owned the market royally for awhile
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-10-12 17:10:52
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we need an AH Union, and send mobsters to break legs of wise guys.
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By Ramuh.Dasva 2009-10-12 17:13:21
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Kungfuhustle said:
we need an AH Union, and send mobsters to break legs of wise guys.

irl or ig? I approve of both. Like give them perma -movement speed and evasion and like semi weakend hp... and litterally break there legs irl
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-10-12 17:15:31
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Dasva said:
Kungfuhustle said:
we need an AH Union, and send mobsters to break legs of wise guys.

irl or ig? I approve of both. Like give them perma -movement speed and evasion and like semi weakend hp... and litterally break there legs irl


irl, that way those lil kids will grow up to work for us.
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By Fairy.Vytiss 2009-10-12 17:24:06
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Kungfuhustle said:
Vytiss said:
are you actually complaining about 100k "price jacking" when you actually lose 400k from NQ synthesis?
omg, get over it... in the time it took you to write in this thread, you could have just made the extra gil yourself and then killed yourself.


so you're saying you're part of the price fixing problem?

hah, hardly... but from a crafter's standpoint i can understand that they want to try to minimize their cost of HQ synth. The only reason prices dropped so low to begin with was because the lottery flooded the market with hides in the first place. Was bound to go back up on its own now that people have to go back to killing Behemoth for mats.
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By Fairy.Vytiss 2009-10-12 17:25:34
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if you want cheap gloves once again, wait a few months for people to switch over to the new FFmmorpg and the market will be flooded with all sorts of gears once again.
or just go shop at wal-mart
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By Ifrit.Kungfuhustle 2009-10-12 17:26:55
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Vytiss said:
if you want cheap gloves once again, wait a few months for people to switch over to the new FFmmorpg and the market will be flooded with all sorts of gears once again.
or just go shop at wal-mart


I paid 200k for my Dusk Gloves, and I don't even farm much lol
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By Fairy.Darkei 2009-10-12 17:49:03
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holy shi... I buy dusk gloves the last week to 160k, <,<
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By Bahamut.Kaioshin 2009-10-12 17:56:36
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What I find the funniest is it only RECENTLY dropped to 140-180k in price and you call it the normal price. I bought mine back during Mog Bonanza for the then very cheap price of 250k because of all the hides available. The price before mog bonanza was around 500k a pair. To see someone *** like this over this item is pretty sad. Don't you have work or school to go to? Yea it sucks that people do that, are you going to save your server from those people by posting this? probably not. moral is suck it up its a video game, 140k is easy to make, so is 300k. If price rises, wait it out or buy it at that price, just don't waste our time posting about it when you do figure it out.
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By Fairy.Vytiss 2009-10-12 19:50:07
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gimme your hides, i'll synth em for ya
/grin
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By Phoenix.Jovant 2009-10-12 20:26:34
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Ludoggy said:
Am I an *** for doing the same thing?
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8751/pricefix.jpg


WTF! son-of-a-*****! i can do spider torque for 200k...
BUT SPIDER TORQUE FOR 210k! HELL NO! THATS 10K EXTRA I DONT HAVE!!! WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO JACK UP THE PRICE, YOUR NOT GOD!!! THE HELL WITH YOU! I HOPE U CHOKE ON A APPLE SEED!!! GOOD DAY TO YOU ***!
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By Fairy.Tbest 2009-10-13 08:56:38
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lol I already have a pair of dusk.
Bored at work + seeing an LS leader trying to jack the price of an item up 120k+ = post made. :P

It 'is' nice to see that the price is back to 160-180k though, despite their attempts to increase it to 300k.
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By Fairy.Akiba 2009-10-13 09:08:51
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i wanna care about this, since its on my server... but Vytiss's boob Sig picture keeps distracting me
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