dyes- a lesson in manipulation

#1 - March 25, 2014, 6:47 p.m.
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welp, hope a good lesson was learned today for having unrestricted buying and selling power on the tp anet. honestly, you need to make items account bound once purchased from the tp. don’t worry, there are enough people contributing to the bltc that items will find their equilibrium prices.

thanks for reading!

#2 - March 25, 2014, 7:11 p.m.
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I think if anything this was a lesson in how efficient the market is and is a great argument against that idea.

#63 - March 27, 2014, 12:41 p.m.
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Hello all, I’ve unlocked this thread for a moment to give you the stats on “manipulation” and flipping I pulled last night.

On average, anyone who “flipped” dyes during the 10 hours of volatility lost just over 5 gold. This stat required you to both buy and sell dyes, but left in any personal Udye the user had so it would skew towards making money. Overall players attempting to flip lost several thousand gold and these people comprised only a small portion of the market.