yeah i get enough of seeing people complaining about CE price.
and i expect to receive lot's of -1 from F2P players, come at me. but read through the thread first.
first of all, the market is suspected of some players keep raising the CE price by making hundreds or even thousands of CE buying offer which is always sufficiently higher than the previous highest offer. a "wall" of offer is then formed and it helps preventing the price from going down.
secondly, this kind of speculation receives no risk at all. either that: they can cancel the offer or they can be refunded if the offer dies after a few days. they receive full refund in these two scenarios. even they purchased some CE "accidentally", the damage toward them is minimum.
therefore, i propose that for every unsuccessful/expired/cancelled CE buying offer, about 25~35% of the refund should be taken away by the system in the name of a service charge. this measure will not affect the successful CE trade or the "most concerned" CE sellers. this won't be blamed for any direct intervention from OOO either.
i know this measure is nasty and will affect every F2P players, but finding a way to regulate this ruthless market manipulation is my most concern. to take down the malicious tumor some healthy tissues are meant to be compromised. otherwise try to make some better suggestions.
Surely if the concern is select rich players putting up bid walls then the solution is to limit the number of crown offers a player can make at a single time? It would combat bid walls without needlessly punishing players trying to make progress in the game.