This image of the Common Trade Index was captured about 2 years ago:
If you check the Common Trade Index now, you will see it's still relatively constant.
This image of the Blue Partyhat was captured about 2 years ago:
As you can see, at the time that the image was captured, the alleged price of the Blue Partyhat hovered around 10b.
You posted these alleged current prices:
The alleged prices for the Blue Partyhat now is 17b to 18b.
Which means that the price of the Blue Partyhat has nearly doubled.
To be precise, in the last two years, the alleged prices of the Blue Partyhat has increased approximately 7b to 8b.
Why are the inflation rates of the Partyhats not consistent with Common Trade Index?
What accounts for the hyper-inflation of the Partyhats?
How come the Partyhats are persistently hyper-inflated when the Common Trade Index remains relatively constant?
There are more questions here but, ultimately, only Jagex would be able to answer those questions.
However, the concern is that these radical price spikes of the Partyhats is due to flip/merch/investing.
The flip/merch/investing leech mechanic causes inflation, in this case it's the even more extreme hyper-inflation rates that are observed.
The flip/merch/investing causes this sort of inflation because the proponents of flip/merch/investing will always tend to fabricate or manipulate (intentionally or unintentionally) the prices in order to leech the maximum amount of wealth.
Additionally, since no one has access to Jagex's data, if there are price spikes and valleys in the Partyhat market, it gives rise to the concern that groups of players are conspiring to rig the markets (their group controls the buy low/sell high dynamic) at the expense of other players.
For The Win, Support Partyhats on Treasure Hunter because it's a cost effective solution to address these sorts of issues!
'o.0'
If you check the Common Trade Index now, you will see it's still relatively constant.
This image of the Blue Partyhat was captured about 2 years ago:
As you can see, at the time that the image was captured, the alleged price of the Blue Partyhat hovered around 10b.
You posted these alleged current prices:
The alleged prices for the Blue Partyhat now is 17b to 18b.
Which means that the price of the Blue Partyhat has nearly doubled.
To be precise, in the last two years, the alleged prices of the Blue Partyhat has increased approximately 7b to 8b.
Why are the inflation rates of the Partyhats not consistent with Common Trade Index?
What accounts for the hyper-inflation of the Partyhats?
How come the Partyhats are persistently hyper-inflated when the Common Trade Index remains relatively constant?
There are more questions here but, ultimately, only Jagex would be able to answer those questions.
However, the concern is that these radical price spikes of the Partyhats is due to flip/merch/investing.
The flip/merch/investing leech mechanic causes inflation, in this case it's the even more extreme hyper-inflation rates that are observed.
The flip/merch/investing causes this sort of inflation because the proponents of flip/merch/investing will always tend to fabricate or manipulate (intentionally or unintentionally) the prices in order to leech the maximum amount of wealth.
Additionally, since no one has access to Jagex's data, if there are price spikes and valleys in the Partyhat market, it gives rise to the concern that groups of players are conspiring to rig the markets (their group controls the buy low/sell high dynamic) at the expense of other players.
For The Win, Support Partyhats on Treasure Hunter because it's a cost effective solution to address these sorts of issues!
'o.0'
Something interesting happened.
10-May-2019 18:27:53
