I see what you guys are saying about ABing out one item and waiting for the supply to wither and demand to go up, but that seems quite difficult. With painted petpets it's easy though. Other people try to inflate it by charging an unfair price for it and then put it on tp, then you just use their prices without trying to actually charge it yourself and trade it for other items. I believe it isn't as freezable like this because TNT said that trying to charge an inflated price for something is scamming, but merely offering your inflated crap for another item isn't because you're using other people's scamming to your advantage sort of. Not exactly sure, but so far I haven't been frozen.
Hmmm, might have to try some ABing in the near future possibly
You aren't listening.
The price of a painted petpet is regulated by the price of the petpet+the price of the paintbrush used to create that color. The item would never ACTUALLY be worth more than the combination of these two items. If you are currently able to take advantage of some ignorance on the TP and sell a few items for more than they are worth (which is set in stone) then thats great.
However the point of a large scale, organized inflation such as the type being discussed in this thread is to create a
long term, ACTUAL price increase, thus making a very very large profit margin for those involved.
For example, if we were to inflate Snorkle Snout which was like 50k a few days ago, heres how it would work (in theory). Snorkle Snout is an "in demand" item because it is used for an avatar, and is one use. That means many people want the item, there are always a high number being taken out of the economy because it is one use, and because Snorkle Snout is a relatively high rarity item it wont restock a ton, making it easier for a group of inflaters to control the amount entering the economy. If each person involved buys, say, 100 items over a period of time at an average of 50k each (taking into account the items restocking cheap, and also those priced above the lowest on the wiz), then each person is in 5mil. The price increase which would be associated with that huge volume of items being "removed" from the economy by 10 or so people could (in theory) push the price to 500k, or even more than that. That would mean that assuming the inflation process is well organized and each person sells at the same time, each participating member would make 45mil or more.
Do you see how this just isn't practical with something like painted petpets? For all the effort and time (and risk) associated with a large scale inflation, you have to get huge pay returns to make it worth it.
