Rune prices are in shambles

Beardozer wrote: 2 years ago

Darq wrote: 2 years ago

Look in the history of the items in what frequenzy they are sold and in what frequenzy they are offered. Pricing is one thing, demand is another. If the demand is very low, don't expect to sell anyting if you pricing is in line with the rest and even if you sell lower then the market you need luck with actually finding a potential buyer.

Yeah, going back to my

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest example, there are currently 157 of them up for trade right now. 3 of them have sold in the past 3 days. That has nothing to do with the site. That happens because while it's a useful item, it is extremely common and everybody's stash is already overflowing with them. But it looks good enough that you'd look at it and think 'man somebody would probably want this', and it gets posted. By everybody. There are so many people who have this item that you could probably post it for free and nobody would take it because nobody could find it in the sea of

Tal Rasha helms.

For an item to have enough value to sell, it has to be rare enough to have value.

At least with this site you can have d2io open in a 2nd monitor and quickly check trade data in real time to see if its worth even with picking up off the Ground.

I will also add to your observations here, and say that the players that would actually be desiring to buy and need this item are also less likely to be able to pay for it (in terms of runes), unless the seller accepts something that lower level players actually have and can pay with (such as pgems). The players that would want or need items such as these are the ones that can't farm them themselves (yet), and everyone else with Hell difficulty characters can just simply farm them themselves, like with 90% of all uniques/sets, thus eradicating most demand for the majority of these items, unless it's a perfect or near perfect roll of an item that some collector wants or it's something actually useful or has a niche role in a build, etc. This is not counting those uniques that are constantly in demand, such as

Shako, SOJ, BK, etc.

halflife wrote: 2 years ago

Beardozer wrote: 2 years ago

Darq wrote: 2 years ago

Look in the history of the items in what frequenzy they are sold and in what frequenzy they are offered. Pricing is one thing, demand is another. If the demand is very low, don't expect to sell anyting if you pricing is in line with the rest and even if you sell lower then the market you need luck with actually finding a potential buyer.

Yeah, going back to my

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest example, there are currently 157 of them up for trade right now. 3 of them have sold in the past 3 days. That has nothing to do with the site. That happens because while it's a useful item, it is extremely common and everybody's stash is already overflowing with them. But it looks good enough that you'd look at it and think 'man somebody would probably want this', and it gets posted. By everybody. There are so many people who have this item that you could probably post it for free and nobody would take it because nobody could find it in the sea of

Tal Rasha helms.

For an item to have enough value to sell, it has to be rare enough to have value.

At least with this site you can have d2io open in a 2nd monitor and quickly check trade data in real time to see if its worth even with picking up off the Ground.

I will also add to your observations here, and say that the players that would actually be desiring to buy and need this item are also less likely to be able to pay for it (in terms of runes), unless the seller accepts something that lower level players actually have and can pay with (such as pgems). The players that would want or need items such as these are the ones that can't farm them themselves (yet), and everyone else with Hell difficulty characters can just simply farm them themselves, like with 90% of all uniques/sets, thus eradicating most demand for the majority of these items, unless it's a perfect or near perfect roll of an item that some collector wants or it's something actually useful or has a niche role in a build, etc. This is not counting those uniques that are constantly in demand, such as

Shako, SOJ, BK, etc.

Fair.