some a-hole today told me the last few guys he bought from sold them for 100 each (pretty sure it was iron gears) so he didnt like my asking price which was like... 400. i guess hes not the a-hole, but these people selling mats for dirt cheap and cutting into my profit margins :)

Lack of price consistency for materials is seriously frustrating me. I'll offer a price to one person for something and have them laugh in my face and tell me it's an insult, and yet another will tell me that 200 people have sold them the same object for less than half the price when I'm trying to sell it myself.

Ugh.

And, yes, I agree, there's been a plague of people with no grasp of the true value of things selling things at incredible losses, which skews a lot of perceptions.

Prices all over the board. *sigh*

The "shout until your voice is hoarse" economy we've got right now is too chaotic.

You're wrong Dukelexon.

Not a single material is truly rare. The problem is most people refuse to solo for a week or two, so their drops are divide into 4/randomly. It's no that hard to find the item you need.
Just solo, find out what drops it, go to the stratum it resides in, repeat level until you get it (usually a few times).

There's very few items you won't get just using this method, and I think the stuff you get from it is really expensive, non tradable or people don't want to sell it when they finally get it.

Hard to solo in the later depths.

It would also help if they got around to fixing the loot distribution system or changing it to an instanced version. The randomization thing, just doesn't work so well.

really? you mean r?

DO NOT MAKE DROPS INSTANCED.
Unless everyone gets drops individually, vs an item drops and everyone gets one.
Because as opposed to items being divided by 4, they'd be multiplied by 4. Making them even more worthless.

Yah that's what I mean drops indiviudally for everyone, sorry to cause panic.

Basically everyone can see and grab everything on their own side, yes this would mean more loot overall, but not really.

EX I see 3 4* mats and I can grab them all my own and get them, while you see oh idk some capsules 1 5* mat and something else like a heart or something.

I think you get my idea.

Sold about 150+ Iron Gear's to vendor.

Zaide, I solo almost EXCLUSIVELY.

Kymori, I sold about 12 swordstones to a fellow at 1k a pop (he specifically advertised that he was buying at that price) on Friday night. Not one hour later I saw one poor bugger shouting he wanted to sell 'a' swordstone for 100. Someone took him up on it immediately, no doubt to resell it at something approaching its actual value to the majority of other players.

Stop giving your stuff away at 90% losses, friends.