True Value of Halloween Pinks

[Melange]

They aren't rare at all right now, why would someone pay 100k + to get a "collectors item only" pink which they can currently get by farming the dungeon for an hour or two? Or get a visually identical green version within 5 runs, or just beg for the green in town?

Give it 6 months and they will become rare and set their own prices.
I'm saving my "investment" cash for picking up bargains in the inevitable market price dip in the weeks after the new trade house. Everyone unloading stockpile will see prices crash temporarily (and flood the forums with crying over it).

[Inching]

ya im saving all the purples and greens for the halloween stuff.... a few months down i'll just be wearing it and a noob will ask to buy it.. then I say its only a green and he wont care cause it looks good muhhhaaaaaaaaaa

[kurl]

Ive got 4 setf paid and full! and 2 lv 45 gruesome pumpkin chunkers which dont drop any more !

[Kossi]

in 1 year, all pinks will be over 1m. ill bet you 1m

[Azrael]

This is the Pinta island tortoise. He's the last remaining member of his subspecies and the "rarest animal in the world".

Why do i bring this up you ask? Well, let me ask you this: "Would you pay 500,000 dollars for his drops?"

Rare or not, crap is crap. Most people (hey, there are some sickos out there) don't pay top dollar for crap.

[Kossi]

poor turtle :/

[Royce]

Rare or not, crap is crap. Most people (hey, there are some sickos out there) don't pay top dollar for crap.

Hmmm... Kite shield craze ring any bells? Anyway, I think that tortoise is awesome.

[Azrael]

Hmmm... Kite shield craze ring any bells? Anyway, I think that tortoise is awesome.

oh.. im well aware there are plenty of people who want rare items in this game for no reason. Oddly enough the kite shield craze was also because it was a PL shield with no PL. The big thing is that there is a lack of content, if people had lots to do they wouldn't have time for this kind of stuff. If everyone in a consumer society like the united states owned everything there was to buy, i'm sure they would start buying weird rare stuff as well. There is also a bit of "graal cosplay" going on in all this.

And yes the tortoise is awesome, they are searching for a possible mate on the island.

[Melange]

Rare or not, crap is crap. Most people (hey, there are some sickos out there) don't pay top dollar for crap.

I think if devs put 10 turtle crap helmets into the game they would sell for millions, even if they had negative stats.
They could even sell them for 500 plat and someone would buy it just to walk around town wearing a poo on their head.

People wanted to pay millions for a graphics error purple cube a month ago.

[Azrael]

I think if devs put 10 turtle crap helmets into the game they would sell for millions, even if they had negative stats.
They could even sell them for 500 plat and someone would buy it just to walk around town wearing a poo on their head.

People wanted to pay millions for a graphics error purple cube a month ago.

/facepalm....

though sadly you are probably right.

[FluffNStuff]

I think if devs put 10 turtle crap helmets into the game they would sell for millions, even if they had negative stats.
They could even sell them for 500 plat and someone would buy it just to walk around town wearing a poo on their head.

People wanted to pay millions for a graphics error purple cube a month ago.

OMG, are you selling a CUBE????

[Royce]

I will pay 1000 plat for the default object, no 10000 plat!

[CanonicalKoi]

I think if devs put 10 turtle crap helmets into the game they would sell for millions, even if they had negative stats.
They could even sell them for 500 plat and someone would buy it just to walk around town wearing a poo on their head.

People wanted to pay millions for a graphics error purple cube a month ago.

I don't know about millions or turtle poop, but somebody paid €124,000 or $172,942.81 (at today's exchange rate) for a can of human feces labelled as "art". Google up artist, Piero Manzoni to read the whole story. People will pay high prices for anything perceived as rare, whether it's a manufactured rarity like game items or diamonds or an actual rarity like an original Da Vinci. Maybe they just like it and are willing to pay a high price to possess it or maybe they like the supposed status they get from owning something only a few can afford--who knows?

[BeardedBear]

I think part of the issue if the few people who are "setting the bar" for items that are straight up crap. Everyone follows suit and before you know it, people are paying tons of money for a totally non-useful item they can look "cool" in. If I find out who started the silly swamp kite shield craze, I'll kill em! I will! Hey look at me in my non PL shield, kind of look of like. I'm so l33t!

[CanonicalKoi]

I think part of the issue if the few people who are "setting the bar" for items that are straight up crap. Everyone follows suit and before you know it, people are paying tons of money for a totally non-useful item they can look "cool" in. If I find out who started the silly swamp kite shield craze, I'll kill em! I will! Hey look at me in my non PL shield, kind of look of like. I'm so l33t!

Well, I've got one, but it was a drop--a greenie, Ursan Shield (? I'd have to dig it out of my stash to get the name.). I was using it since it was the best shield I had at the time and every time I went into Forest Haven, I got bombarded by offers. I didn't want to sell it--I was *using* it! Lol!