holiday price gouging

GarnetFire17 · December 2016

DrkHunter86 wrote: »

Ourorboros wrote: »

You said it yourself.....no one has to at those prices. When I see items for exorbitant prices in chat, I want to yell at the poster to get real. But they have the right to do it. It's on the players not to buy for inflated prices. As the saying goes, a fool and his money are soon parted. Why do you care?

Again I agree its up too players too decide. It just seems like a *** move on the sellers part. I guess this is a micro chasm of a larger issue but I figure as a community we should help each other, and still make a profit of course. Just not try screwing people over. I'm in 3 large trade guilds and easily make 200k-500k a week while selling at fair prices. Lets not zos it up and over inflate crap lol.(there's my zos bash for today).having a good community will only benefit the game and thusly benefit all of us in return.

microcosm. nope. It's just capitalism. people trying to make gold. 50k is nothing to a lot of people in the game. it's a rare item. supply and demand is what it's value is, not just what a random person feels like paying.

GarnetFire17 · December 2016

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Those drinks are selling in most guilds for 200g for 2 on PS4 EU. Don't get me wrong there are some people who are attempting to gouge people, but it's easy enough to find them. I've sold a number for 50g per drink.

they aren't doing it to gouge poor players, they are trying to separate the rich players from some of their vast amounts of gold.

Asardes · December 2016

Items have fallen in price. Motifs and blue recipes go for a few hundred gold, and the green ones are a few dozen, similar to other green recipes. Costume and hat rune boxes are now under 10K and the gold recipe is 4-5K. Only in the first 2-3 days of the even there were money to be made selling them. I've completed all achievements on my main, sold the doubles and stopped running the repeatable quests. I will probably complete the achievements on 2 alts at the end of the event, rebuying the recipes and motifs at even lower prices. Probably 4-5K per character tops.

nexxus_ESO · December 2016

I've seen these people trying to sell the drink, it makes me cringe. I'm not surprised to see it, but it really ruins the spirit of the event.

I've just been taking a stack of drinks with me when I go and mailing it to anyone who asks in chat. If I see someone looking for a motif page in /zone, I mail it to them. I even mailed someone a Mud Ball Pouch yesterday. These items are not that rare. The event is going through the 4th. There's plenty of time to hoard this stuff if you're into that, but there's no reason not to help your fellow players out.

Sigtric · December 2016

I spent 3k gold to get the event achievement complete and that was on two motifs that just did not want to drop for me. If you look around you can find the stuff for cheap on the guild traders.

Tandor · December 2016

DrkHunter86 wrote: »

So I was running the betnik event the other day,and there was a guy selling the twice spiked ale for 10k a drink!!! And people selling the recipe for 40-50k!!! I get it everyone wants too make gold but why try too gouge people on this event. Some people dont have hours too get al the stuff as they have lives outside eso,why try ripping people off? And before any jumps on me,yes I get I you don't have too pay for it at those prices but thats not the point in trying too make here. In the case with the guy selling drinks for 10k, there was another player selling them for 250 gold. I decided screw this guys 10k... I paid the kid selling at 250 200 thousand gold too give them out for free. And he held up too the deal. All in all I just don't get why people have too take advantage of others. 250 gold is a fair price considering its costing you resources too craft them but 10k,really. Any thoughts on this

So long as there are gullible buyers, there will be sellers willing to take advantage of them.

Prices tend to rise exponentially once an event is over and the items can no longer be obtained other than through trading.

Meanwhile, my advice to anyone wanting an event item is very simple - run the event!