Price fluctuations? - Guild Wars Forums

Grimdar · May 02, 2005, 06:19 PM // 18:19

How do they work? What are they based on?

Lasher Dragon · May 02, 2005, 06:24 PM // 18:24

It's been my assumption that they are based on supply & demand. When I see a craft material is selling for a lot of money, I unload what I have of it, until either I get low or they start paying too little for my tastes. The more I sell off, the more the buying price goes down.

Grimdar · May 02, 2005, 06:29 PM // 18:29

So the game actually tracks what people trade (player to player)? That's pretty neat

Lasher Dragon · May 02, 2005, 06:30 PM // 18:30

Oh I am not sure at all about player-to-player trades. I doubt it tracks that. I'm talking buying & selling from the materials trader.

The IOU · May 02, 2005, 06:31 PM // 18:31

Yeah. I had wood planks I was going to sell to the material trader and he was only giving 1 gp. I could sell to a merchant for higher then that.

I basically figured it was because everyone was unloading their wood planks off to the material trader.

Lasher Dragon · May 02, 2005, 07:07 PM // 19:07

Yep. I only sell my wood planks at the material trader when I can get at least 50 gold. That's the key - set a minimum price and don't sell unless you can get that. I'm never broke hehehe.

Popps97 · May 02, 2005, 07:33 PM // 19:33

I could have had strange luck, but it seemed that differant districs have differant prices.

jdwoody · May 02, 2005, 07:36 PM // 19:36

If you salvage 10 wood planks you break even at 50...

4 gold/salvage and you would have gotten at least 1 gp for the item anyway. If one of those 10 items would have sold for 2 gp you actually lost gold...

The prices are tighter than they were in the BWE, though once I got to Yaks Bend the gold seems to be really flowing now, but I stopped salvaging everything like I did in the BWE when I noticed the payoff just wasn't there anymore unless you could sell to someone else.

May 02, 2005, 06:19 PM // 18:19	#1
Grimdar Ascalonian Squire Join Date: May 2005	Price fluctuations? How do they work? What are they based on?

May 02, 2005, 06:24 PM // 18:24	#2
Lasher Dragon Draconic Rage Incarnate Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Iowa Guild: Alphahive Profession: R/A	It's been my assumption that they are based on supply & demand. When I see a craft material is selling for a lot of money, I unload what I have of it, until either I get low or they start paying too little for my tastes. The more I sell off, the more the buying price goes down.

May 02, 2005, 06:29 PM // 18:29	#3
Grimdar Ascalonian Squire Join Date: May 2005	So the game actually tracks what people trade (player to player)? That's pretty neat

May 02, 2005, 06:30 PM // 18:30	#4
Lasher Dragon Draconic Rage Incarnate Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Iowa Guild: Alphahive Profession: R/A	Oh I am not sure at all about player-to-player trades. I doubt it tracks that. I'm talking buying & selling from the materials trader.

May 02, 2005, 06:31 PM // 18:31	#5
The IOU Krytan Explorer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Iowa Guild: Guild of Night Profession: Mo/E	Yeah. I had wood planks I was going to sell to the material trader and he was only giving 1 gp. I could sell to a merchant for higher then that. I basically figured it was because everyone was unloading their wood planks off to the material trader.

May 02, 2005, 07:07 PM // 19:07	#6
Lasher Dragon Draconic Rage Incarnate Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Iowa Guild: Alphahive Profession: R/A	Yep. I only sell my wood planks at the material trader when I can get at least 50 gold. That's the key - set a minimum price and don't sell unless you can get that. I'm never broke hehehe.

May 02, 2005, 07:33 PM // 19:33	#7
Popps97 Academy Page Join Date: May 2005	I could have had strange luck, but it seemed that differant districs have differant prices.

May 02, 2005, 07:36 PM // 19:36	#8
jdwoody Krytan Explorer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin	If you salvage 10 wood planks you break even at 50... 4 gold/salvage and you would have gotten at least 1 gp for the item anyway. If one of those 10 items would have sold for 2 gp you actually lost gold... The prices are tighter than they were in the BWE, though once I got to Yaks Bend the gold seems to be really flowing now, but I stopped salvaging everything like I did in the BWE when I noticed the payoff just wasn't there anymore unless you could sell to someone else.