Fliewatuet
Angelus dos Business
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Posted - 2006.11.24 17:46:00 -
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Edited by: Fliewatuet on 24/11/2006 17:58:24
Don't be angry Drachenlord. It doesn't matter if you can do things with items from other regions or not. Since you have to select another region first and it takes hours to look through every other region the market will continue to do what it started already:
It will concentrate in Jita!
Yeah, we all know, CCP wants to fight global trade hubs. I guess they want a big fight if they first have to actively grow the existing once. Or perhaps they just want to kill all the smaller trade hubs so they only have to fight Jita. :D
I've started buying and selling faction, officer and plex items month ago. First i sold them in the next-best high-sec system, usually where i bought them in the first place. Then i noticed something: If i put up two equal items, one in Jita, one somewhere else - the one in Jita almost always sold first. Somedays days before the other sold. For the same price. So since then, i started selling my stuff only in jita now. I'm one of those guys with 50-70 escrows. I'm updating them at least twice a day.
CCP misjudged the current desire of most players. Ok, it is true, the most valuable items, especially officer items, are rare and expensive and usually best sold in auctions. But most of the stuff on escrow doesn't belong to auctions. I've bought stuff on auctions for perhaps a year. I encountered lots of dishonest, unexperienced or just stupid sellers among the good and honest ones.
The new contract system looks nice on the first view. But most players just play the game to have fun. They don't want to spend their time waiting for a good offer on an item they want. They don't want to travel 20 jumps around to get items for less. Most players buy their market needs in the system they are, even if its more expensive. And they want to get the item NOW, not in some days if the auction runs out. Most ppl don't want auctions for faction items from 10 to 400M isk value. And they are ready to pay more just so they don't have to wait for those items. Thats why i'm earning good money with escrow trading currently. :)
Regards,
Fliewatuet
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