You know there’s a Leaderboard for number of items sold/won.

They’re building up numbers for the Leaderboard.

I just want to get rid of the items. It looks like I am going to have to pawn them.

Acid Flux Posted:

If your Frugality is high enough, then you can buy items directly from their main shop for far less than their ‘Base Cost’ as computed by Kyoubai, and less than the Ppwn Shoppe selling price.

Then, by offering these items for less than they would sell for in the Ppwn Shoppe, you encourage people to buy it directly from you.

I’ve sold numerous high-end Equipments over the past few days, and I’m sure others have also used this method. The Buyer gets it for far less than he would normally pay,and in some cases, it’s an item that they could never buy (due to a lack of access to the Main Shop).

It’s a Win-Win.

Now, this I’m certain is not on the up and up. Certainly there’s folks selling things for less than they can be bought. Certainly there’s folks benefiting from access to items they couldn’t directly buy.

But if you can point to a single instance where someone is buying items from a store for less than they sell in the Ppwn shop, I’d love to hear it, because that sounds like a fantastic reason to go do that transaction a hundred billion times. Log in to see images! KindFearlessLeader edited this message on 01/20/2009 12:17AM

The Wandering Hypocrite Posted:

I just want to get rid of the items. It looks like I am going to have to pawn them.

Yeah, yours were some of the ones I was thinking of. It seriously is not less time to Ppwn them then it is to repeatedly type in a starting bid. At least, I think it isn’t o_O

Black Dragon Posted:

spex offenders™ are currently in the Ppwn Shoppe. They are selling for  14,348

I can purchase them in the Main Shop for  8580

Their Base Cost, as listed by Kyoubai, is  12,000

So, if I list them for their base price, I still make a profit of  3420.

The Buyer saves  2348.

Yes, but that’s through the auction. Acid said ‘less than the Ppwn Shoppe selling price.’ I don’t see how the base cost really matters much as it’s variable what it sells for on kyoubai and it’s based largely on demand.

Oh, I see what you two were getting on.

When I said ‘selling price’ I meant the price YOU sell it in the Ppwn shop as. Not the price you can buy it there as. There are people who have been consistently making auctions with the starting bid less than the amount they’d make just flat out selling it in the Ppwn shop. Yes, I’m aware you can make bargain deals off of the shops, but it’s not a ‘bargain’ to the seller selling it at below sell price.