LA d1 traders

but there is an occasion in Droks D1 where you can buy something really cheap how i bought a req 9 15^50 fellbalde from some guy for 10k there then after i sold it for like 400k or so.....

know exactly wot you mean. I got a purple axe drop once with decent mods, put up msg willing to sale it for 1k. Immediately got a buyer. Then when he opened the trade window, he closed it promptly. His reason was:

buyer: "I thought it was gold."
me: "This is exactly as I advertised, skin+mods. I never said anything about it being gold."
buyer: "sorry I'm not buying."
me: "wth's the difference?"
buyer: *leaves*

wtf wot's up with vanity and ego on the american servers.....>_<

I just came into possesion of some very powerful hammers for cheap. Need some upgrades for them. Start spamming for a 10% furious, 29-30hp, and 5/1 vamp.

Get endless msg for 10/10 sundering.

Then get 5 msg at once for 10% furious. Offers are as follows: 35k, 30k, 40k, 55k, 80k!!!

This is getting rediculous looking for upgrades. It cost you more money to buy the weapon with base dmg then find upgrades. If you had bought the weapon with upgrades in them would be cheaper.

Just go farm Sand Giants in Vulture Drifts. I think I unlocked every perfect Hammer mod in a week's time using my 55 monk. I had my entire inventory full of gold hammers, probably got a dozen or so left.

I understand that a lot of prices are significant amounts more than their actual values, but some of you said a zealous axe mod for 15k..
And I was just in LA D1.. and one person was selling for 3k and another 5k
Maybe it was just the time or the people.
Meh. But I did buy a Sup Blood for 1k and then sell it to the trader for 1.8k!

I have also tundra giants. Keep getting near perfect stuff. Just check this out and you'll see what I mean.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s....php?t=3014864

I'm willing to let most of that stuff go for 1-2k. Should just salvage the mods and go price gouge but I'm not an a-hole.

yes this is really old news. it's been like this just about every town
in the game for a few months now. i remember when i was lookin
to buy a certain sword hilt. i received alot of pm's from every town.
i went window shopping in. the seller's prices where for a cruel sword
hilt 10k-20k. i couldn't stop laughing. and these guys were serious about
their price. i've also seen plus 30 hp pommels for 100k and some crazy
amount of ectos. i said to myself screw this until i find one myself from
farming.

LOL, that's true in the real world too.

I'm beginning to think that these prices are a conspiracy by chinese bots to raise prices. Think about it; the higher prices go, the greater the need to buy ebay gold becomes. They're trying to get a system in place where they sell ebay gold to people for real money and people use that ebay gold to give right back to them for rediculously overpriced items so that they need more gold from ebay. And no, I'm not wearing a tin foil hat.

its getting worse and worse each day

100k + 15 ectos for a +30 sword hilt?

sigh........

What I want to know, is why the market in upgrades seems to have exploded in front of my eyes? I had never been much of a trader, but I never saw so many things going for so much at once.

A gold max dmg, 15^50 perfect fortitude and sundering with a sickle skin is still rarer and more expensive than a victo's axe, no question. You can farm victo's axes, but you can't farm perfect golds.

It's not like buying here is any better:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/auction/browse.php/id=374
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/auction/browse.php/id=373

100K+ prices too.

All of this begs the question.. who is actually buying this stuff?

Because they are the only thing not regulated by merchants so the cost is completely up to the player.

A gold max dmg, 15^50 sickle skin DOES NOT EXIST.

The closest confermed to that, last I checked, was a few PURPLE NEAR MAX sickles. High dmg sickles are the rarest drop in the game.

You completely missed the point he made.

I've been out of the loop on trading for over a month, I don't even know what things are worth anymore, lol. I just farm, run, and horde my gold for factions.

Guru Auctions FTW!
I buy everything I need from there if possible.

But wow have prices gone up for upgrades. Even noticably in the last few weeks.

Isn't what we're seeing just natural inflation? The gold in my inventories has done nothing but gone up. After a certain point, I don't want anything anymore. So 100K isn't really as valuable(when I do want something) as it was when I only had 20K. (I've got about 1.3 mil in cash)

There's so many veterans in GW right now, everyone can throw around 100 plat like it grows on trees.

Weapon Mod trader is a great idea.

Everyone? Nah, I think people who truly earned that gold are going to be more savvy in spending it. It took a LONG time for me to talk myself into buying Victo's shield. And even then I district-hopped in Tombs and LA until I got the absolute best deal I could find at the time.

Let's consider this: 1) several recent massive crackdowns on botters and sweatshoppers. Much harder for them to farm the gold they need.

2) people still buy gold off ebay, that will never change until Anet tells ebay to make them stop

3) people with tons of ebay gold don't value it because they didn't earn it, so they're quick to pay insane amounts of gold for weapons / upgrades

4) they buy these ludicrously expensive items from (guess who?) the botters and sweatshoppers

5) botters and sweatshoppers pool their collected gold, put it up for sale on ebay, repeat the viscious cycle. I have no doubt that they have a ton of mule accounts with a nearly infinite supply of perfect upgrades stashed away that they are now tapping into because of the recent nerfs and bans. How many +30 pommels and 10/10 Sundering Hafts do you think a full sweatshop, running chests, farming Griffons, and clearing UW 24/7 for almost an entire year could have in storage? Hmmmm... You gotta remember, these are businesspeople; WE are gamers. Their approach is different.