Suggestions to reduce market manipulation

#1 - Nov. 1, 2012, 2:20 p.m.

There seems to be a lot of market manipulation going around by very rich people with thousands of gold, so I have the following suggeions.
1) Make things you bought on the trading post temporaly account bound (say 24h) and make it impossible to sell old stocks (not account bound) of that item for the same duration.
2) If you sold an item make a cooldown on it until you can buy more of the item.
3) Add an extra 10% listing fee + 5% sale tax for items you previously bought on the trading post (lets say for the last week).

John Smith

#7 - Nov. 1, 2012, 3:58 p.m.

I would very much disagree with all of these suggestions. I would also be curious to know what evidence you see of market manipulation.

John Smith

#62 - Nov. 2, 2012, 4:27 p.m.

ilr.9675:
John Smith.4610:
market manipulation.

… well that’s unfortunate that the head Econ guy doesn’t see “Flipping” as Manipulation.

I’m just curious what else you’d call it when the entire point is to manipulate the final sales price for a bigger profit on something that would have been a lot cheaper if there was no short-term speculating middlemen driving up the prices.

Keep in mind there is a difference between Moving along the Supply Demand curves, and shifting the supply demand curves.

I don’t recall making any statement about what I consider market manipulation? Have a forgotten something?