Sorry if the picture doesn’t show up, I’m new to using pictures. In summary, I’ve been checking out the 599 GTO on the auction house for a while now. They were usually around 7.5 million creds. I checked today, and much to my shock, it appears someone has bought every single one, painted them, jacked up the price to as high as they can, and put them back up in the auction house. Like dude, talk about a jerkwad move. How is this allowed, there should be a limit to the amount of cars you list or something. They’ve basically got a monopoly on one car.
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Sounds like they’re a “legendary painter”, which means they can set the price anywhere up to 20 mil. I haven’t hit that status yet, but I have hit “legendary tuner” (which is the same thing on the tune side of the house).
Best thing you can probably do is not feed into their game by purchasing at that price. If the market won’t bear the prices they’ll have to drop it back down.
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and it’s a completely pointless thing to do, all those credits to spend on . . . what?
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Much more reasonably priced ones have already started to appear, managed to snag one. Glad to add it to the collection, by the time I got the game the festival playlist it was in had already ended.
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Actually there is, you can’t list more then 24 cars in a 24h time frame. And I have to admit I do something similar to prompte my liveries, at least sometimes. I list cars with min bid and max buyout hoping that the folks who got outbid look trought my crative hub. Doesn’t have a huge effect but it seems to have a bigger impact than posting your liveries on this forum,… (except you win a contest of course). No one forces you to buy a car out at that price. Think of it what you want,…
I’m not 100% sure, but I think I bought your gtr nismo for 20M,… 
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It may have actually been worth it at that time. Though I was selling it because it was a reward in the next series.
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Nice! I think mine is probably still rocking a Miami Vice livery. It mostly collects dust, though.
Yep. All the Miami.
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Op left and probably won’t be back. Edit… Wrong about that! 
How is the auction default for an untuned / unpainted vw truck like 14m? It’s the autoshow rabbit truck.
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I’m still here, I just prefer to read instead of post. You all made good points and I thank you for the advice.
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They don’t care for the credits, they just want to ruin the game for players that try to get cars from auction house.
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Ive just watched someone selling Deloreans,about 10 of them,all sold to the same 2 people at the last minute for full jacked up price,you stand no chance of getting some cars whilst a few people are pushing up prices well above the real value…
Why carnt you just buy one in the autoshow…morris minor traveller over 12.o mil…someones making a killing…
just like in races, there are op/meta cars in the auction house, the VW you mentioned, the BMW M3 '08 - like the Benz ssk in FH4 - you can sell for more than you buy from day 1. people then exploit that in small amounts, but the way auction pricing works, the max sale price will increase every day as long as it’s selling for above average. so these cars are sharpened into tools mostly for credit transfers between players. I used to be heavy into the auction house, but they shut it down and ruined it. the values were reset but they didn’t change the essential initial valuation problem so the same cars are back to 12 mil max
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there’s a limit of 25 sales and 75 buys in a rolling 24 hour period. I’ve been able to manipulate the auction house in Fh4 and FH5 by myself but only twice for two different cars, and it took considerable time, effort and credits. it was fun but there was no benefit. the people you need to be mad at are the ones selling hacked cars into the game from scratch, because that creates a self-perpetuating inflation bubble of 20 mil.
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I’m a legendary painter and have done this to max out my money a couple of times. By now I rather refrain from it except for some cases. Like if I’m going to buy a Renault Clio R.S. 2010 for ~16 millions (which seems to be the current max price “ordinary” players can list them) and going to re-sell with one of my tunes and liveries I’m going to list it for 20/20 millions.
You can’t really blame the players here in my book but I very well understand that it can be viewed as unfair. The whole thing is simply an other sign of T10/PGG not really thinking things through. They presumably have never watched how a real car auction or even one on Ebay works.
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