So all GTNs are going to merge soon ?

Ship GTN : legacy lvl 25+ 5 mil. So no, the fleet won't be a ghost town considering the regular influx of new players.

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Sure, I used to teach microeconomics in an MBA program and I can explain it to you.

If you had an MBA, you would have contacted the seller and colluded with him to set up a cartel. You would agree on the pricing and divvy up the market amongst yourselves. Each time you saw a competitor put up the augment at a lower price, you would snap it up and repost it at your price. Eventually you would work with a guildie to engineer a leveraged buy-out of the other seller in your cartel, resulting in a monopoly that you would control.

Well said kind sir, this is a most amusing comment and made me laugh, +1 and a gold star for you!

Ahh. I see now. That's brilliant. I wouldn't have thought about setting up a cartel. We could spread the risk between each other while doing a better job of fleecing our customers. See, this is why I didn't go into business.

To be honest: I have done this a couple times. (Purple Mod for 1K? That's not right....). And for people complaining about serious undercutting, this is your solution.

Touche, sir. Thanks for helping me understand. The next time I make an augmented-custom, I'll try to be more business savvy.

Get some comprehension there skip. ;p

I'm not dooming and glooming. I'm talking about your type, that seek instant gratification without every looking beyond that gratification need....then, one day log on and see the results of their complaints and begin to complain about them.

Very rarely do I see a well thought out argument on these boards, just "I want, I want, I want". Zero forethought.

Actually in a way the merger is already here.

Yesterday my wife's republic character mailed my republic character some mats that my empire character needed for crafting. My republic character mailed them to my empire character. After crafting there were mats left over so I put them up on the empire gtn. When they sold, my empire character took the credits and mailed it to my republic character who then mailed it to my wifes republic character.

We have almost all of the crafting, gathering, and mission skills between our characters and are use to moveing mats and credits around between accounts and factions. It is quick and no big deal although you do get to look at a lot of loading screens.

At the time I left WOW this was not a possibility as someone else has noted. Aside from the neutral AH there was no way to move gold, mats, or crafted items between Aliance and Horde. That was a real pain and tended to make me want to keep all of my characters in one faction. In Swtor we have an even split between republic and empire characters and get to experience both factions stories and quests without having to pay a crafting or credit penalty. I would say well done in that aspect of crafting and trading to BW.

As far as merging having a negitive effect on pricing or causing undercutting, I don't think so. We have characters on a medium server and on one of the very heavy servers. I am seeing a better market with more availability and more consistant better pricing on the heavy server. For some reason more buyers tends to support pricing evern though there are more sellers. On the medium server I can put something up for sale at a fair price that sits for days and then expires. That is especially true on the republic side. On the heavy server, the same item at the same price sells quickly. Again yesterday, as I was putting up a number of mats on the heavy server, my mail box was actually clicking with sales while I was still in the process of listing. Hopefully a merger will bring more buyers into a single market and even on a medium server replicate my experience on the heavy server.

lol epic

Instant? At best it takes 5 mil and level 28 legacy to achieve, trust me when I say legacy 28 isn't instant and if you only have 1 toon running dailies that is about 200+k per day minus repair bills from raids and flash points. 5 days per mill 5 mill is 25 days.

nothing instant about getting the gtn on your ship, and that is if that is the first legacy unlock you are going for. mind you there are a TON of legacy unlocks all costing a pretty penny. instant? lol

This logic is so flawed, so full of conjecture that it really is not worth the time to explain the impending results to someone that has convinced themselves that any of what was just written is true.

Maybe we can talk in 3 months, when more then 2 people have this in game and we can see the results....and the real "sky is falling" posts that will result from the same people that insisted on this addition.