TOPIC: Shade Cloak on ebay

This auction seems a bit crazy.

I don't know what happened with this token, but at $15ea I sold out of all of them very recently... But for a while nobody was buying them.

Someone cornered the market and is now trying to sell them

Stuff has been going really high lately I almost thought somebody was fake bidding to screw with people. Lazlo's RoH went for $265+ and 2 distilled healing potions for $20 some other stuff went super high too.

Wow. Currently @ $41.

I picked one up last year for only $5

Graven wrote: Wow. Currently @ $41.

I picked one up last year for only $5

There is a shield of deflection also listed, which is in the 20's which is nuts as I've not been able to sell any at 5 buck each. I just started randomly slipping in them as bonus to people that buy stuff just to get rid of them.

This happens every year right after GenCon, I think. A lot of new players take what little they know of the game and then do their research on eBay to see what's available and overbid items. I'm guilty of this myself - my second year playing I was the one who bid a Ring of Frost into the $45 range the first time, and the market has still not recovered from it.

I think it happens most with sub-$100 transmutes. The out of print, non-makeable nature of them gives them a sense of artificial scarcity. "I can't afford an Ultra Rare, but I want something more than a Rare..."

Which is how I ended up with an Orchorn Shortbow, a Frost Shortbow, and my Ring of Frost.

Education saves money, newbies. Let me tell you the tale of when I insisted that I wanted to trade a +2 Long Sword for a +1 Silver Rapier because in my head I was thinking it was the +1 Rapier of Piercing....

It might be because there were stories this year of Speak with Dead leading to fun interaction with the spider web mummy and the like. I'd like to upgrade my Shadow Cloak to one, but haven't felt like expensing that minor upgrade yet.

Well dang diggity, I have many of these.... Might be time to sell.

MetaphoricDragon wrote: It might be because there were stories this year of Speak with Dead leading to fun interaction with the spider web mummy and the like.

More like the fun tales of the guy that resurrected the mummy.

I've got several in my token store for a lot less than that, maybe I should put one on EBay.