That conspiracy theory is not far fetched. I actually think something similar when it comes to all powertraders, that they give low PC's in order to buy cheap and resell at maximum profit.Ive seen this many times from 2015 and to this date.
I took a break for 5 years myself and I came back in 2015 and the prices was just insane compared in 2009-2010. It was mindblowing how shitty the economy is. I dont think its just inflation,but many taking advantage of that, and giving high Pc's out of their bottoms.
But basically everything is like. there is 1 item in xunlai that is q8 non max blue and someone has the balls to sell a shitty blue staff and ofcourse there are always someone who pays,why? I have no idea. I gotten loads of blue,grapes in q8 from chests and just merched them. People have no shame anymore about selling,they just sell anything they can. Also someone have bought a q8 white fellblade for insane amount of ectos, no1 back in the day ever sold a white q8 fellblade somehow in later years its just norm among certain collectors to must have anything going back 10years or more. I guess I just have that oldschool mentality like I had back in 2005-2010 when playing gw regarding certain collections/niches or whatever you want to call them.
In 2008 I bought a os q9+5e chaos axe for like 40-60k and in 2015-2016 I bought one and I had to pay like 60-120e. Just because that 1 person has it and is selling it right now they take like 3-4x price the usual value that it should go for.
I dont really care if I get flack for this,people can give me 300dislikes and I still wouldnt change my perspective regarding this. This is discussion side of xunlai.