This is absolutely NOT meant to berate, demean, or rant at anyone. I am simply stating my point and opinion and completely, truly and utterly appreciate and respect both of your posts.
In regards to both this comment:
-| this would be a glorious time for sure. finally a chance to get my dark knight acc+ gear at decent prices and for my bro to get ranger stuff. |-
And this comment:
-| Even with the gil sellers gone, you still got the average every day player greed to deal with and as long as people are willing to pay out the nose for an item, others will be more then happy to charge it.|-
It's been said before...i'll say it again. With the Gil-Sellers gone...the prices will not go down. If anything - they will go up.
WHY?
I'll tell you....
Gil-Sellers camp NM's 24/7. Which means that every NM pop is claimed, which means that if the drop of the valuable item DOES occur, then they immediately sell the item. Without the gil-sellers, average people will camp the item, some will keep it, other times, the NM pops might go unclaimed, or not be claimed as fast, etc....which essentially means what?
THAT LESS OF THAT ITEM IS FOR SALE ON THE A.H. - less items on sale = yes, you guessed it. HIGHER PRICES.
I am TOTALLY not in favour of gil-sellers, i'm just pointing something out to people that think prices will go down because there are less gil-sellers.
In regards to the second comment, high prices are not an indication of a players greed. It's called business at it most simple and basic level:
SUPPLY and DEMAND.
Simple.
If there are many of an item for sale, the price will be cheaper. If there is only one - it will most likely cost more.
People also don't factor in the possible 'story' behind how a player acquired an item. It could totally affect how much a player tries to sell something for.
For example - if a person decides they want to try for a Peacock Charm - and they go and camp Argus for that item, and it takes them a month of camping it 10 hours a day (this is hypothetical, don't forget) Is it wrong for that person to want to get as much as they can for that item that they spent SO MUCH time getting? Do they want to 'be nice' to the other people (that they don't know) by selling it for cheap, people who don't want to take their precious time to go and camp it themselves?
Another example of a background story affecting the price of an item. - A person tries to acquire an item that normally goes for 50K (from NM or whatever other means) - they end up dying like 5 times in the process of getting the item and in total, spend about 4-5k on choco's in the process.
My question to you is...is it wrong for them to try to get 55K or 60K for that item - especially if there are no others for sale at the AH?
This is open for discussion. Please, I encourage peoples opinions on this matter.