Atamazon.7062 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 (I know this is maybe an unnecessary question, but it just bugging me)For example this one: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Corrupted_ShardI don't see anything worthy that can be crafted out of it, but it can still sell for 30s and there are ppl buying it? Is the wiki lacking and you can craft some useful things with it? (this apply for all "shard" in the same tier 3) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illconceived Was Na.9781 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 The supply is only 3k on a demand of 2k, which compares to nearly a million supply of corrupted cores compared to a demand of only 55k. That explains the price difference.However, it leaves the question of: what are those buyers planning on doing with 2000 shards?One possibility: someone has tried to corner the market and make a profit by putting up their own buy offers in the 20 silver range so they can sell in the 30s range. Only 344 buy offers are for >20s350 are for 2-12 silver775 are for 1-2s 540 are <= 0.5s.That "top" stack & half of buy offers requires only 75 gold. Selling a stack at 35s would turn a small profit.(There are ways to counter that strategy, but they basically mean blowing a bunch of gold just to eliminate the suspected power trader's stock.)tl;dr I speculate that someone is trying to make a few gold using a relatively low risk strategy of buying up all the cheap stock, putting in their own buy offers at a steep markup, and then reselling the original stock for a modest fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atamazon.7062 Posted November 19, 2017 Author Share Posted November 19, 2017 I see, so those shards are just a tool to play the market despite have no "real" value? I guess i will just sell all of them, holding things with no real use sound risky. Thanks a lot ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Some of the shards (not corrupted oddly) have uses in scribing recipes which makes them sought after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeknar.6184 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 Cores, that are the next tier in the promotion, don't even worth 1s so we cannot even say people are doing it to promote it to the next tier... It's obviously just someone trying to make money off some item nobody care about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khisanth.2948 Posted November 19, 2017 Share Posted November 19, 2017 @"Illconceived Was Na.9781" said:The supply is only 3k on a demand of 2k, which compares to nearly a million supply of corrupted cores compared to a demand of only 55k. That explains the price difference.However, it leaves the question of: what are those buyers planning on doing with 2000 shards?One possibility: someone has tried to corner the market and make a profit by putting up their own buy offers in the 20 silver range so they can sell in the 30s range. Only 344 buy offers are for >20s350 are for 2-12 silver775 are for 1-2s 540 are <= 0.5s.That "top" stack & half of buy offers requires only 75 gold. Selling a stack at 35s would turn a small profit.(There are ways to counter that strategy, but they basically mean blowing a bunch of gold just to eliminate the suspected power trader's stock.)tl;dr I speculate that someone is trying to make a few gold using a relatively low risk strategy of buying up all the cheap stock, putting in their own buy offers at a steep markup, and then reselling the original stock for a modest fortune.344 buy offers for >20s and that is from at most 9 people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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