Why people are so crazy with GTN prices ?

I've put about 75 different items on the GTN on my server in the last week at GTN suggested prices including 0% markup. About 68 of them after 48 hours got returned to me. These include greens, blues, and a few purples. Only the purples tend to sell.

I've gone there on numerous occasions to look for mats for crafting, too. Too bad the only mats there seem to be to 350 to 400 crafting. I'm not there yet. And even if I were, I wouldn't find enough to keep me busy. Oddly, when there are any mats for low-mid level crafting, they seem to be put in at ridiculous prices. Like 3450c for a piece of plasteel.

Yeah, the GTN leaves a lot to be desired. I want to be able to place orders on the GTN. But, that would be too eve-like.

The problem you are experiencing is that so much stuff drops in this game, and yet so much is available from crafters and from quests. Crafters sometimes flood the GTN as they skill up and so they kill the entire segment of the market they are listing into.

I play on a few differnt Standard servers, and greens simply are not worth listing any more. Yeah, one might sell, but usually not. Blues, I have to actually undercut the listing price about 10% to get them to sell. I make most of my money off of orange drops to be honest. Blues and purples I sell at discount prices, and greens go to the vendors, some times some blues that I know will not sell (like blue weapons in most cases). I'm sure it's even worse on higher populated servers.

Its the entitlement generation, what did you expect ?

I sell Mats on my server and business is good. I look on the GTN and usually sell my Mats at 70% of the top price, as long as it isn't ridiculous. Now 1k per Titanium is a good price I think depending on the quantity. Unlike the real world where you buy bulk for savings, in TOR you pay more for bulk. It all comes down to the time it takes to acquire the Mats. Now if I saw 7 Titanium on the GTN for 5-10k of course I will not buy it, it is way too expensive when I can just do missions and have it in about 15 mins fo a fraction of the cost. But 99 Titanium for 60-100k that is worth it because I can craft alot of items with that amount. So when looking at prices factor in the quantity, don't buy from someone that sells a small amount force them to do the hard work.

Greed.

I post at the default price, or a modest markup on extraordinary goods. That's plenty.

default prices should be higher, i find it funny that the default price for lvl 49 blue mods is lower then the green ones you buy on Voss, ye sure, break the market and put blue mods on the GTN for 1000 creds, you can't even make them for 1000 creds, one mission for mats even costs the double of that.

This thread is totally necro'd, but I'll chime in with one point in case people haven't done the math:

Listing crafted items on the GTN at increasingly low prices will generate some brisk sales. However, if you drop the global price too low (such as selling at the default price), then people will realize that they can make more money by simply selling the materials, and the material prices will inflate as crafters struggle to get enough materials to create an amount of crafted items to make a decent income.

The long-past OP talked about selling at low prices and getting huge daily incomes... of 30k. My Cybertech will take some armorings and mods to the market a couple times a week. He sells at mid-level prices (because he's mostly selling Blues) and gets about 60-80k a trip. That's usually selling four armorings and an earpiece.

Upside: When I see earpieces listed at the prices the OP mentions, I buy them and list them back at slightly increased prices. Pure profit.

Dude, why are you wasting time posting on the forums? With stories like that, you should be doing novels.

That's just credit inflation man.

Because everything costs a lot of money. People need to pay a lot of credits for so many things. If prices of things like mod removal, legacy items, etc were lower, then players might charge less. Then of course there's the greedy players too. There's always gonna be someone who is influenced by money.