It has become apparent that there are people out there actively buying out other shops and reselling those items at a higher price in their own shop, ultimately leaving all shops out of stock of a specific item and making it only available within one shop at an extreme price (Price gouging).
This is extremely unfair for not just new players but current players and other shop owners who wish to help other players without overpricing the market. There is only one winner in a situation like this, and all it does is create a greedy community and defeats the purpose of making a shop in the first place.
I did not make a shop for other shops to buy me outright and resell at a higher price, I made a shop to sell items to players to use the items I am not using and gaining a little profit for providing the time and effort for said items. If the current /warp market is going to become a monopoly war then I will just shut down my shop and start providing requested items to players face to face at a far cheaper price so they don't have to suffer losing so much money to a greedy system.
The shops should be a fun way for players to make a fun shop, sell some items they don't use for other players that need them for their builds and allow a community friendly place for players to browse and decide who they wish to support and buy from.
It really isn't cool when you go to buy one item and you go through every shop that sells it (including one which just popped up that day) and they are out of stock because another shop brought it all and resells it at a price 5X higher than all of the other shops, that is just selfish and is in no way supporting the servers community.
There is a reason that games like WOW, RIFT, GW2 ban people for this, and that is because it is unfair and immoral. The same goes for shops IRL, it is called the Competition Law. We do not need such behaviour on this server, and it is disgusting and incredibly disappointing that there are people actually doing this.
Money in the game is a fun way to sell and buy, that is true, but we should not be encouraging a greedy system that damages the community and prevents players from freedom of choice and supporting other players and overpricing things to the point that new or poorer players cannot afford.
This is extremely unfair for not just new players but current players and other shop owners who wish to help other players without overpricing the market. There is only one winner in a situation like this, and all it does is create a greedy community and defeats the purpose of making a shop in the first place.
I did not make a shop for other shops to buy me outright and resell at a higher price, I made a shop to sell items to players to use the items I am not using and gaining a little profit for providing the time and effort for said items. If the current /warp market is going to become a monopoly war then I will just shut down my shop and start providing requested items to players face to face at a far cheaper price so they don't have to suffer losing so much money to a greedy system.
The shops should be a fun way for players to make a fun shop, sell some items they don't use for other players that need them for their builds and allow a community friendly place for players to browse and decide who they wish to support and buy from.
It really isn't cool when you go to buy one item and you go through every shop that sells it (including one which just popped up that day) and they are out of stock because another shop brought it all and resells it at a price 5X higher than all of the other shops, that is just selfish and is in no way supporting the servers community.
There is a reason that games like WOW, RIFT, GW2 ban people for this, and that is because it is unfair and immoral. The same goes for shops IRL, it is called the Competition Law. We do not need such behaviour on this server, and it is disgusting and incredibly disappointing that there are people actually doing this.
Money in the game is a fun way to sell and buy, that is true, but we should not be encouraging a greedy system that damages the community and prevents players from freedom of choice and supporting other players and overpricing things to the point that new or poorer players cannot afford.
