EXALTED ORB Price Shenanigans [Delirium] 127:1 What is even going on?

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rhah wrote:

It can still go down again. Like when it dropped to 50 then went up to 55 in a few hours then down to 40.

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Miazga wrote:

lol, you still on it OP.

Just stop man, stop playing sims economy and instead play the game.

Trying to manipulate the prices using poe sub forums is just silly

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Snorkle_uk wrote:

every time ive paid attention exalts have changed to match the price of standard towards the end of a league. Usually that meant they got cheaper, but atm exalts are 82:1 over there, so the might well move to that before the changeover. People who care about standard will mass buy exalts this cheap before the switch, which has the potential to accelerate the shift by constantly eating up the cheapest listings causing new listings to value themselves higher and higher.

All it takes is 1 dude who realises he has 3k+ chaos orbs and can buy exalts for 42 each then sell them for 82 each on the other side if he really wants the chaos back there, suddenly the cheapest 70 exalts on the market disappear. Maybe theres many people sitting on chaos trying to gauge when weve hit rock bottom to buy buy buy, the sight of it starting to go up could trigger a mass buy.

Your thread alone having a title stating the price is flatlining or starting to go up might be enough to trigger that sort of thing. In the same way you making a thread saying exalt prices are falling can cause people to think ok, shit, better sell my exalts now before they go any cheaper, which in turns floods the market making exalts harder to sell for the individual and then people desperate to sell start going 1 chaos lower to get the sale and it snowballs. Markets are sensitive, a run on a bank is a coincidence, its a chain reaction.