Market Discussions

http://community.eveonline.com/news/newsFromEve.asp?newsTitle=account-management-disabled-temporarily

...meaning that you can't action GTC trades for the time being.

Account Management is back up. PLEX prices are falling fast.

Got 400M out of it...can be happy

Just flew 30 jumps out of my way to spend 20 million ISK less on a PLEX out of protest.

That is not true.

To a person seeking to buy game time, that PLEX is just as good as any other PLEX in any other location, but they have to buy it first. In order to buy it they must first see it, which means they either have to be in the same region (if it's on the market) or they have to be searching contracts for PLEX (if it's on contracts). Neither of those qualify as mainstream conditions for PLEX purchase. Most people do not buy PLEX from contracts, they buy them from the market. Most people do not search various regions for PLEX, they mostly buy from Jita, fewer buy from local hubs and fewer still pick them up from the regional market in whatever backwater they happen to live in.

While you can offer backwater PLEX at premium prices and get some sales from people who see the location of your PLEX as a convenience, because that's where they are, this does not expose you to a high footfall of customers and it does not intersect with the manistream behaviour of EVE players. You may well be waiting some time for your backwater PLEX to sell. A backwater PLEX may well be less valuable to the seller than the Jita 4-4 PLEX for these very practical reasons.

In order to draw most people away from their default approach you have to offer a significant incentive. The higher effort that people must put in to get to your out-of-the-way PLEX may have to be compensated. Hence your backwater PLEX is not really of equal value to a PLEX in Jita 4-4 from the customer's point of view either.

You can always sub your account using GTC and they are pretty much always significantly cheaper than the equivalent PLEX, but still PLEX is a hot item that is highly traded, frequently used and often discussed. GTC, not so much.

To a person seeking to buy PLEX for other uses that do not involve direct redemption for game time, reverse redeeming for character transfers, converting to Aurum etc etc etc then the backwater PLEX is a totally different beast to the Jita 4-4 PLEX. If you are buying to re-sell, if you are buying to stockpile, if you are buying to scam, then generally speaking you want those PLEX in Jita 4-4 and PLEXes in other locations are certainly of less value.

So, your statement is not true and even if it was it isn't the kind of thing that "people" are going to learn, ever.

The majority of EVE players act contrary to their own interests for the majority of their play time. Why would you expect otherwise?

Still have to go to the region to buy it.

Tier 5 in faction warfare means you can buy a CNR BPC 1 run for 62k LP and 0 isk, everythings roughly 1/16 the normal isk/lp cost. Caldari just had a LP dump today. Minmatards had theres friday. Most farmers had well over 2mil lp from last dump (last month) alone. This is why you see implant prices drop and CNR's BPC's going for 170 mil right now. CNR used to cost 550-700mil, now there 330.

I barely do plexs in FW and I made over a bil this month with only 275k LP. People are using there isk to buy up plexs in huge amounts. So with all the extra isk in FW expect the Plex to hit 1 billion by next month.

Jita Sell: 604m
Jita Buy: 595m

Happy days.

Most of us choose to use the market to place such public bets.

It looks like I'm getting a second run at it then.

Jita Sell: 662m
Jita Buy: 640m