Kalmanaka
The Graduates
Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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Posted - 2006.12.25 21:42:00 -
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Price Gouging, this is where IAC build and sell items and ammo and ships on the market for a reasonable price, ISS members then BUY up all the stocks of a particular item and resell for a ludicrously high profit, then making IAC market look to expensive to potential customers, driving them over to ISS stations. some desperate or unknowing purchasers might just buy the items in IAC stations making the gougers a tidy profit.
Price gouging is when someone owns all of something and marks it up to unreasonable levels. Since anyone can make ammo and modules, there could not be any price gouging.
This only works if you stop making stuff and putting it on the market at reasonable prices. When someone buys your entire stock, make more and put it up. If they buy it again then make more and put it up. You will always have the lower price and your market opponent will end up with craploads of junk they paid way too much money for, leaving all the profits in your wallet since if they resell then they have to sell lower than they bought. If you are persistant then you can come out way ahead of whoever is trying to disrupt your market.
I had someone do that to me with hybrid antimatter M ammo in empire. I was putting fairly large amounts up on sell orders and someone was buying it and putting it back up marked up. I started putting up ammo in much smaller amounts and my lower prices and checking the market regularly. Every time my ammo dissapeared, I put a little more up. This kept the market flooded with my lower priced orders and my opponent didn't get to sell much at all. Eventually they gave up. Persistance and patience is everything.
For this reason, claiming that market fiddling was part of the reason for war just doesn't make any sense. If ISS did want to hurt your markets, they would flood it with really cheap stuff so all of your sales would dissapear. All accounts I've read claiming market pvp say this did not happen.
All you had to do was be more persistant and patient than ISS and you could have easily won (assuming ISS was really behind some grand market manipulation scheme of course). The market is the game. Going to war because someone was playing the game the way it was designed to be played doesn't make any sense.
Unless I'm missing something of course. Feel free to fill me in if I am.
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