Talk:(Amphibian) Elefrog Kyoroko/@comment-125.160.213.130-20140517152914/@comment-6011882-20140522164816

Sorry, I often assume that my sarcasm is understood, so I neglect to use the [sarcasm] tag.

The LoC community is like a bad movie that is stuck on repeat. After every single BR event without exception, multiple copies of the reward UR are given out to everyone in the top guilds, their alt accounts, and their grandmothers. The moment they come out (or in the past, were unlocked) the trade boads are flooded with sellers trying to unload them, and buyers trying to get them for a bargain.

It usually starts off wilh sellers asking premium prices, because "ZOMG IT'S SUCH A POWERFUL CARD!" and buyers mostly ignoring them, because, well, it's pretty obvious just how ridiculously many there are out there.

Then, a few sellers get tired of trying to sell a card amongst such heavy competition, that they drop their price to significantly below what this "premium" price is.

Buyers in turn, see this "below market price", and go to the buying forum asking "below below market price", which, compared to that premium original price, seems like a crazy lowball. Sellers then get really P.O.d at these lowballers, and start ranting and raving about how they payed such a high price for the BR card, and how the stupid lowballers are ruining the market and preventing them from making any kind of fair profit.

I mostly just sit back and laugh at the stupidy and people not understanding the basic idea of supply and demand. No matter how quality or "valuable" you think your product is, if there are dozens of people selling the exact same thing, and not so many people interested in spending on the product, it's going to have a lower price in the end. To quote economist Peter Morici, "It's really not that complicated."