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On 2 May 2005 14:25:10 GMT in
<Xns964A55A585255richardrapiernetscap@130.133.1.4>, Graeme Faelban
<RichardRapier@netscape.net> graced the world with this thought:
>bizbee <tuberoo@earthlink.net> wrote in
>news:3MQce.2317$HL2.1640@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:
>
>> On 29 Apr 2005 14:44:26 GMT in
>> <Xns964758EA9AD95richardrapiernetscap@130.133.1.4>, Graeme Faelban
>> <RichardRapier@netscape.net> graced the world with this thought:
>>
>>>bizbee <tuberoo@earthlink.net> wrote in news:1arce.1689$HL2.1626
>>>@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net:
>>>
>>>> Having a necro, I tend to buy summoned pet gear... I notice that
>>>> most of it hovers <20pp, quite a bet less for some things.
>>>> There's <two> vendors, however, who have thinks like the fist of
>>>> ixblat... always for like 95pp, as are all the other summoned items
>>>> they offer. I can't believe they actually sell any of it, except to
>>>> someone who may be extremely desperate that has too much money.
>>>> They've both been there for months. You'd think they may actually
>>>> take a look at what other vendors are selling the stuff for--let's
>>>> see.. do I want to pay 95pp, or 5pp for something that will
>>>> evaporate if the pet gets killed or I log? Is it just me, or does
>>>> anyone here actually spend as much as 500pp on expendible basic pet
>>>> gear?
>>>>
>>>
>>>If those are the only vendors up at the time, there are folks who
>>>would. I suspect that those sellers would make quite a bit more
>>>however if they priced those items reasonably.
>>
>> on a very rare occasion, they are the only two (or one), but most the
>> time there's all kinds of people selling the same stuff for like
>> 10pp--I can only guess that they decided themselves how much the stuff
>> is worth, without looking what other people are charging.. I would
>> think pricing something a little higher (gouging, politely put) when
>> they're the only source would be one thing, but ten times more? Sorry,
>> I don't need <any> disposable equipment that much. When I come around
>> looking, and thats the only price, I do without. There used to be one
>> vendor that always had everything, sold from 5pp for fists to 15 for a
>> girdle..hell, I'd gone to here when there were three other people
>> standing there buying off her at the same tim. I think you make a
>> <lot> more money. Maybe they've got that Dennis the Menace mentality
>> at the "lemonade $10 a glass" booth. "But we only need to sell one!"
>>
>
>As someone else said, when you have over a million plat in the bank, the
>difference between 5pp and 500pp is negligable. Sadly, I am not one of
>those who can make that claim.
I can see that, but the fact remains... how many people fit that
description, <need to buy pet weapons--that is to say that this person
isn't in a guild and can't hit a guildie up for them for nothing>m and
are shopping when these guys are the only two on?
Personally, I have 100K in the bank and I won't pay it because the guy
is a price-gauging prick. I'll go screw around and come back in an
hour. It's got nothing to do with being cheap, everything to do with
not feeding a remora.
Yesterday some guy set up right right next to one of them, selling
Muzzle of Mardu for 5pp, the other guy was selling them for 75. The
guy selling them for 5 had about 20 on him. I doubt many people paid
75, no matter how much they had.
Of course, it's his stuff, he can charge whatever he wants. There's a
gas station near my house, that consistantly charges fifty cents more
than every other gas station around... and there's at least ten within
a quarter mile. He has no prime spot, matter of fact, there's another
station adjoining his. I just figure he doesn't like pumping gas, and
is too cheap to hire someone to do it.
I doubt I'd put a price of 95p on them, but 50...yeah, 
I'm MOSTLY playing EQ2 no Everfrost but I am newly in a guild 
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