Have you noticed what’s been going on in the Dubloon Exchange in Emerald lately? It’s been insane. Now, I freely admit that I play the market sometimes – when there’s a color box promo going on, the price of dubs usually goes down. I’ll buy a bunch of extra dubs to sell them later when the gold box promos begin (and dubs prices go up).
This time though, someone put in a bid for over 3000 dubs at 2085 (I think). Now, 6mil in POE to buy dubs is an awful lot. If I had that much money I’d have bought some new familiars. Unless they were trying to fix the dub market – because it sure screwed things up. Obviously, 2085 became a hard floor for the price of dubs, and they could only go up. So even thought there was a color box promo, the dub prices never went down (in fact, they actually went higher than normal), and when the promo ended, they went over 2200.
I have a series of bids in now – 50 each at 4 decreasing price points – in hopes of at least getting some extra dubs in the next 9 days before the gold box promo starts. It’s not that I usually by a lot of gold boxes. usually 2 or 3 just to see if I get lucky, but I would like to make a little profit on the market.
[ed. note: When I’m quoting dub prices, it’s the buy price, not the higher sell price – I only do that when I’m really really desperate.]