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Wouldn't pay more than 500k for any chair in the game. So in that case if its market value is 500m I'd be ripping him off by about 0.1% of the real value.

No you'd be ripping him off by 99.9% of the real value, which would go against your moral values that you claimed you had, but don't. Wouldn't he be pissed that you "scammed" him out of 99.9% of what he deserves?

I put stuff in the store in case someone needs them (opportunity cost for availability), not cause I want to sell. If I want to sell, I do go 50% lower, and usually it sells fast.

Imagine if there were a market in which people only sold for availability. Then Maple would barely have progress at all and all your items would be crappily scrolled. Economy is the equivalent of progress, and hinderance of that would be hinderance of server as a whole.

If while I was holding it, the market value of GA60% dropped to 3m then yes, I would sell it to you for 2.5m. I'm talking about natural changes in value, not turning around and selling immediately for lower than what I bought it for.

Then I'd still be ripping you off 500k by your standards. "If you know the price, tell them."

& there's a difference between 5mil vs. 2.5mil and the majority of stuff in here. There's so much variation in some item prices that a 50% difference would barely be noticed. When it's in the 90-95% off range, something's obviously wrong with the seller, and I'm not gonna burn him on the deal for it.

No. Most of the items have a very defined value attached to them. There's only so much variation because people hope to make higher profits.

Imagine this:
A row of glove atks, 18 of them for 5m.
The next best is 5.3m.

The seller knows that the 18 glove atks WILL sell. Then his will become the "cheapest" price and thus the definition until someone else puts for 5m or people just don't buy for 5.3m.

situation 1: 1 person has a 4 atk cape
situation 2: 10 people have a 4 atk cape

Which of those is there more total wealth? The second one. Adding items to the economy just shifts the balance toward item value, meaning the number of mesos per item decreases, because there is not an equivalent increase in the number of mesos. Only the total value of the items in the game increases.

You're not seeing the total picture.

Situation 1: one person has a 4atk cape. The price is set at 100m for that cape.
Situation 2: ten people acquired 4atk capes. Thus, one person, wanting to sell his cape, has to reprice his cape to 95m, and the next one to 90m, and so on until it's been accepted by the general public that x mil is the price.

And, the total value of the items in the game does not increase. In fact, it decreases because of the tax attached to trades. Also, if values only increase, there would be no balance and we'd have a huge abundance of items in our market. That's why the dark scrolls were such good Nexon creations to control the economy.

And lol, you think deflation is a good thing?

I don't like seeing someone buying every overall int 60% and putting them up for 40mil each. Whether they got a good deal doesn't even matter, they can sell for any price.

Guess what, doing that isn't sustainable, because as more people find overall int, they'll eventually bring down the price. As long as there are people selling at a lower price, the person trying to monopolize the overall int scrolls cannot sell his scrolls and eventually he will run out of the supplies and will go out of business. With most of the mass bought goods, this cannot possibly happen because the decreased supply will eventually be replenished. If you're annoyed at why the overall int 60%s are so high in price right now, blame Nexon for making it rarer than other scrolls, because as of now, the supply is quite low because of people USING them, not repricing them.

Whether they got a good deal doesn't even matter, they can sell for any price.

So why not just sell glove atk 60%s for 1m then? Why sell them for 5m? Why buy them when you see them at 1m and reprice them to 5m? Why not sell everything you own at 1 meso or whatever the NPC price so you don't contribute to this forced inflation?