I was feeling generous so bought someone’s BMW M3 '08 for the full buy-out at nearly 13 million. I was intrigued and looked at selling one in the auction house. The minimum starting prices is 200,000. It’s an autoshow car with a cost of 48,000.
What am I missing?
PS. I have rarely even gone into the auction house. The 20 million things but that was it, more or less. So I don’t have much of an idea about it all.
Yes.
I think @KillerSpectre21 had a post not too long ago regarding the ah pricing
The tldr version is that the price for that particular car has been artificially manipulated to drive it into the stratosphere so it can be used for wealth transfer in-game. Most people actually selling them are getting “paid” by the person doing the buying.
You can adjust the price of cars by buying out cars which drives up the max price until it eventually caps out. People flooding it without buyers are likely to get disappointed, unless they happen to get bought by the market manipulators who are aiming to keep the price up. Too many unbought auctions can drive the price back down.
right, that makes sense, it is like that precisely because of what I just did (twice)
thanks
that is, it was set up by manipulators but the situation is maintained if it works out that it achieves what is intended
Yeah. I wouldn’t fret about it. I suspect the manipulators would move in if it drops too much. A couple purchases here or there are micro, whereas the manipulators are like Walmart and buying train loads of things on the macro scale. I’m remotely curious as to who is doing that… but it really doesn’t bother me much. Just kind of a trivia item mostly, though I have used it to give my son’s account some money.
The thread has already been answered and this is just a shower thought, but inflation works in weird ways when it comes to fictional markets.