It seems I have been duped by a inflation scam ... I hadn't realized how inflated the National Philharmonic Speakers were until today.
I accepted 3 of them for one of my lots worth about 75k. The going rate on the wizard was about 30k (although a couple of the shop wizard screens had them at 100k), but I figured I could still sell them for around 28k quickly for some profit.
But they never sold out of my shop ... and I go to the shop wizard to find out that the prices plummetted on them. In fact, one person seems to be either a) get rid of a bunch of them that they bought or b) inflated them all ... made their trades already ... and is now trying to dump the rest of the ones they still had left out on the market.
Shop Owner Item Amount in Stock Price
alanispani National Philharmonic Speaker 47 5,000 NP
Oh well ... nothing too bad ... but my gut told me there was something wrong with the trade ... I should have listened to it. When you are offered 3 of the same thing, it is usually just an inflated item.
Anyway ... I didn't think this was worthy of a new topic ... since the price has clearly fallen on the TP and the SW already ... that no one else would probably fall for it.
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Editted to add: By splitting up the shop wizard such that there are now more "refreshes" that you need to do to get a real sampling of the "real" price ... haven't they just made it easier to pull off scams like this?
Also, Doesn't it make sense that you should be able to do a *single* action to find out what the low prices are on the shop wizard screen for the item you want to sell? It annoys me immensely to have to refresh the shop wizard 20 times before I see what the low prices on my screen are. Do they do this just to increase the number of page views they have?