On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:12:51 +0100, you wrote:
>> From: Clanretri@...
>>
>> You are the only idiot, plain and simple. Greed has nothing to do with
>> running a business. The point of trading skill is for max profit. 100pp for
>> spyglass is the going rate, I sold many and none of them are idiots. As for
>> the Aqua Lung I sold about 9 so far at 650pp each, although 1000pp is a bit
>> at the higher end if anyone can sell them then more power to him/her. And it
>> is not fooling the masses, do you have any idea how much it cost to raise the
>> skill to master? and even then the success rate is only 50% at best. Next
>> time try to know what you are talking about before opening that little hole
>> of yours. Lastly I am proud to be a gnome, and it's people like you who is
>> ruining us gnomes.
The point of the trading skills is NOT max profit, but to make another
part of the game enjoyable for others. Just like the point of the
game in general is NOT to reach lvl 50 fastest. Its only the inborn
greed that causes 80+% of the players to play that way.
While there is a reasonable price for the items, that allows for
continuance of working on the skills, some ppl are gona charge less,
and some more... If your a greedy SOB, then anyone selling for less
than you are is hurting your profit, as they steal bussiness and give
you a bad rep (?desearved?). If you undercut all the time, you hurt
yourself long term as you slowly go broke. You hurt the others that
just want to continue to practice the skill in the short term as they
cant sell. its all a balance... if matterals cost X and you fail 50%
of the time on average, then logical selling price is 2X, most tack on
a profit so that they dont feel its wasted time, when they coulda been
sitten on their butts waiting for mob X with cool/sellable/tradable
item Y to pop.... The question is: if somebody walks up to you and
says "heres all the parts, please combine those for me. if you fail,
no worrys." would you do it? Or would you charge them for the 30sec
it takes to hit combine. You didn't spend any cash on the item, and
if its not a triv item, then your gaining skill (possibly) for free...
grr, this develeped into a rant about the economy. grrr. sorry.
I just hate to see this go the way of jewelry. where they all sat
down, and desided what they would sell at, and to ostrisize anyone
that didn't follow the norm. most of the prices where 2-3x _profit_ at
that point...