This has been keeping me up for several nights, keeping me glued to my computer screen and making me not wanting to go sleep – for a simple reason. I stumbled (more like, recently found out) about the value of my seemingly miscellaneous contract parts, hence I stay up to monitor prices for the inventory I have. I find places that sell Nessys, not that I am at the level to use them yet, but now I know I don’t have to continually invite friends to earn Nessys for future hunts and raids.
Wee hours like this, is when the trading market is as active as the stock market. Selling threads are pushed to the 2nd or the 3rd page within matter of minutes and small little sales threads (like mine) disappear into the ocean of threads because my items are not as sellable as they are. However, it makes a huge difference to my currency account as I need the moolah to purchase the next mechanism and magic circles that will allow me to trap higher level ghosts at higher level places.
I wait online, in vain, for sellers to respond, and for people to respond to my sales thread because in this stock market, it’s all about timing. Active sales threads mean your items move fast. If you don’t respond within 5 minutes, there are plenty of other alternatives in the market for other buyers to choose from, at equally competitive prices. It’s similar to how friends ask you out, only when you respond 6 hours later they tell you that the appointment has been filled up.
Undercutting is abound as there are no fixed prices, and with the exception of a rare few contract parts, the rest don’t exactly subscribe to the supply and demand logic. Crazy sellers undercut the prices by pricing it so cheaply that the average, then becomes expensive. How horrid, you’d think – but that’s life, isn’t it.
I really should be sleeping, but as a old school gamer who sticks by the 1st seller she approaches, I’m still waiting in vain for my seller to respond – and take the time to think really, do I really need that black candle parts set right now when my xp level is not high enough for it yet? It’s almost like in real life, when you constantly ask yourself the question – do I really need that new top/facial product/tech toy/bag of the month?
Finally, when the browser feels overworked and refuses to load the trading page as promptly as it should, I know that it is time for me to give up, and to turn in – so that I can feel refreshed to face the challenges of tomorrow, attempting to sell my inventory and trap ghosts all again.
It’s just another cycle, but then again – so is Life.
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