Question about pricing in general

    Hello people,

    I am a old GW player (2005) returning from time to time. And every time, there is something that I dont understand. Why is the pricing of some bad stats items so high sometimes (beside the skin)?
    I just saw this topic for instance: Some OS Shields & q9 Zodiacs
    How can the two first shields with an image have been sold for 7a and 2a for instance? The armor +10 is very specific (plants/skeletons). And the fourth shield has pretty shitty stats Q11 Tactics, +10 vs Charr, Health +28. What's up with these ? Are the skins so popular or am I missing something?

    Thanks in advance :)

    I would say potential reasons are:

    1st reason for high prices: inflation.

    2nd reason: skins like zodiac shield are very less botted, other more heavily botted skins e.g. gothic defender and Winds of change skins (think dragon staff) dropped in price

    3rd reason: creature shields are demanded, especially demons, charr, undead, skeleton, dwarves, plants i'd say. Some less playable like dragon, ogres are less demanded for sure.

    4th reason: Interest of at least two solvent buyers who both want a certain item ("bid war")