If Commendations of service stay the way they are... the gem market could die

[zenga]

I get your points. So another issue: don't you think that by flooding the market you'll cut in your own legs? Seems like every market where i interfere (be it gems, bags, ore/bars, w/e) takes a quick fall and stays like that over the next weeks. I'm on a medium populated server (where my faction is only about 1/3th) and for every market i'm in there are 2-4 competitors very active. Now i tend to be rather careful to avoid this, but in the end i keep sitting with a lot of stock. It gets sold, eventually. But i need to be happy with less. Fine by me, but if on my realm there would be 30 extra gems a day - every single day - that would have a huge impact on the price. Not to mention the snowball effect i've seen: people see a particular product sells well (all in a sudden there is a huge supply and some buy in large quantity, which is only temporary), they jump on that to get their piece of the cake.

I prefer to find some crafters i can do business with in the long run. I used to sell 5-10 gems a day for 135g per while they get sold on the AH for 160+. The thing is that some days they don't get sold on the AH. So i'm happy to take less and have a stable connection, where i'm sure i can sell whenever i i feel like.

But that's a personal preference. Would be cool if you could be arsed to give us statistics on your economics per day. Lol i know that's a lot to ask, but it 'd be really nice to see how it turns out (like crafted amount, average price on AH, amount you listed & their price, amount sold, amount in stock). A graph after a few months tells a lot.

[Shodokan]

I get your points. So another issue: don't you think that by flooding the market you'll cut in your own legs? Seems like every market where i interfere (be it gems, bags, ore/bars, w/e) takes a quick fall and stays like that over the next weeks. I'm on a medium populated server (where my faction is only about 1/3th) and for every market i'm in there are 2-4 competitors very active. Now i tend to be rather careful to avoid this, but in the end i keep sitting with a lot of stock. It gets sold, eventually. But i need to be happy with less. Fine by me, but if on my realm there would be 30 extra gems a day - every single day - that would have a huge impact on the price. Not to mention the snowball effect i've seen: people see a particular product sells well (all in a sudden there is a huge supply and some buy in large quantity, which is only temporary), they jump on that to get their piece of the cake.

I prefer to find some crafters i can do business with in the long run. I used to sell 5-10 gems a day for 135g per while they get sold on the AH for 160+. The thing is that some days they don't get sold on the AH. So i'm happy to take less and have a stable connection, where i'm sure i can sell whenever i i feel like.

But that's a personal preference. Would be cool if you could be arsed to give us statistics on your economics per day. Lol i know that's a lot to ask, but it 'd be really nice to see how it turns out (like crafted amount, average price on AH, amount you listed & their price, amount sold, amount in stock). A graph after a few months tells a lot.

I have 9 different gem buyers on my f list. 4 different flask buyers and a few titanium buyers. I agree that taking less to let people profit and letting them maintain the market is the best idea.