Saw an EE Quiver on Ghallanda with a bid of 1615 . . . that's like $60 for a bunch of pixels?   Strange number to be a starting bid so maybe somebody really wants it that badly.

Bigjunk wrote on Mar 19^th, 2013 at 12:00pm:

That is 8385 (for 1500 shards) worth of TP to get.  That's more than $60.  That's and EE quiver for an Otto's Box plus another top notch EE Item (Helm, treads, grasps, etc).

I honestly don't understand people.  I'm only listing BtCoE items that I have equipped and no longer use because the Shard AH is the only possible way to sell them.  If something isn't bound, I'm putting it on the regular AH.  The ONLY other reason I can see for using the Shard AH is for items that are worth more than 2 million plat.  An EE Quiver or EE Visor or EE Globe is legitimately selling in the 4 million plat range, currently.  The Shard House would make sense for these items too, I guess.  But all the people listing EH or EN items for 500+ Shards, most of which are unbound, is fucking stupid. 

Take Iron Beads.  EH beads are on the Shard AH on Khyber for 500 Shards.  You can buy the same item on the regular AH for 150kpp.  500 Shards = 2795 TP.  I'm curious to see where pricing ends up after the weekend.  A few rounds of listing things at crazy prices and most of them not selling will hopefully bring things back into focus.  Although it only takes a few nut jobs with more money than sense to reward 1 out of every 20 stupid postings and you will delay the process much longer.

Eladiun wrote on Mar 19^th, 2013 at 1:39pm:


Oh, they won't announce shit.  Mother fuckers will just start disappearing.

Bigjunk wrote on Mar 19^th, 2013 at 2:18pm:


Those are nutter odds!

It'd be like rolling 10 straight 20s on 1d20.

Whatever - I'm still in for 17 Astral Shards...

Eladiun wrote on Mar 18^th, 2013 at 6:32pm:


FTFY

I have a goal of netting 1000 astral shards to buy my guild a bigger airship - other than that, I can't see myself using the shard AH very much. Sales I made on Orien that I can remember from this past weekend:

bloodstone: 250 AS buyout
bloodstone: ~250-300 AS buyout
LDS: ~120 AS buyout
3 flawless black: ~35 buyout (can't recall)
Giantcraft Siberys Compass (EH?): ~35 buyout (can't recall)

I listed a few other things (gloves of forgotten craft, etc), but did not write down what sold so far, or my asking prices. I wonder whether we will see prices change much after the first week or so. Other plat to store item transactions like pets have had pretty stable prices over the past year, although I'm not sure about raid timers.

I think my balance was around 540 last night (started at 20 on Friday), so I'm over half-way there. Compared to the cash price of around $50 for the level 55 airship, I've netted around $25 of other people's money towards it so far by selling stuff that was just taking up bank space.

I checked this morning, and I couldn't cancel my bloodstone that I listed for 260 buyout. It was at 220, so it might have a bid on it already - I can't recall what my starting price was. I saw another bloodstone this morning that someone else put up for 100 starting, 150 buyout. It had 1day 23h remaining, and since it wasn't on last night, must have been just listed for 2 days. I expect it to sell quickly.

Selling either my damaged RoSS or else a +3 lesser heart that I looted last night will get me most of the rest of the way to 1000 AS. I'll probably sell the heart, since I haven't done an LR in 2 years, and mostly play TRs now.

Unless it is just the fatigue messing with my memory, I recall accessing the ASAH from inside a quest last night. I wonder if someone could grind out a steady low level income from stocking it with spell mats, scrolls, and potions for people who run out of stuff in a quest. I wonder if Turbine will put an end to that, since it sort of competes with their store monopoly for in-quest purchases. They still get a cut though, so it should be allowed.

Yeah, I almost felt bad about it. I am trying to figure out the typical buyer - powergamers with good jobs, struggling level 10-15 first lifers who have never had more than 25k plat on a character, or else the type of noobs who would buy +1 armor from the DDO store.

Munkenmo wrote on Mar 25^th, 2013 at 2:51pm:

Ah, I didn't think about that. Right. Thanks for saving me some time.

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Jerry/Cordovan's statement was worded rather carefully, wasn't it?
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Okay, so they're not doing it on their personal accounts (which wasn't ever a concern of mine), but his response fails to address the entire scripting issue.

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Well since the Lamannia coordinator was always talking about using their scripts to populate the AH, we all know they have the ability to do it.

cdr wrote on Mar 25^th, 2013 at 9:04pm:

Ioun stones were out of my league before they were added to the third reward list in DD. After the addition, I ran DD over 50 times in the first few days to get a vibrant purple.

Purples usually sell for a similar price to pale lav on the plat AH. Right now, the astral shard AH has a pale lav for 80 AS on Orien. I would not begrudge someone paying a mere $4 to avoid 50 farming runs of Dreaming Dark.

Slug wrote on Mar 25^th, 2013 at 10:54pm:

Yep. I had pale lavenders coming out of my ears. I haven't had to farm for them. I kept getting stuff that was just barely good enough to take, and a depressing string of useless junk when I dropped the quest. I decided that I felt better about farming by taking the best item on the 3rd and 6th completions in an evening, rather than taking nothing from six lists with useless stones. Ended up with plenty of discs too by taking the completions.