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Well, felt the need to make this thread.

I, Sabin Lionheart, owner of both an Angelic Sash AND Devil tail, as well as two OMGs and both scarves, am sick of the inflation on them. Yes, my items are now worth tons of gold. Yes, I am considered uber rich. Yes, I earned these items through good old fashion hard work.

My issue? I don't find it fair that just about anyone who was questing for almost any 03 items basically has no chance in hell now of ever getting them lest somebody donates to them or they happen to be incredibly artisic.

I donated for my Angelic Sash in 03, and worked my way to a devil tail in 04. I have been around Gaia longer than about 95% of the rest of active gaians. I love this site, and value it's users.

However, I am sickened that because of my items I am placed on some sort of pedistal, this heirarchy of Gaia status. I want everyone to have access to a devil tail or miniwings, bunny slippers etc. I don't find it fair at all that people who start now have no chance of ever getting them, and frankly, I'd like to see a change.

Many people blame the G.C.G. , and I'll comment on my feelings about that. Oh, and this next paragraph is MY view and mine alone, not the view of SIN or any of it's staffers.

Honestly, I don't feel the G.C.G. should be used simply because it's the basis of one user's view of the exchange. I do have to say that while I don't necessarily mistrust Alexi, I do find there to be a large conflict of interests in one person running a price guide. I mean, that is a very, VERY easy thing to manipulate, having one person control all the values. I'm not saying he/she is purposely raising prices, but I do think it's wrong that he/she does this on his/her own, and that's not speaking as a Price Guide staffer, that's me speaking as an exchanger. BUT, I do not place much of the blame on the G.C.G.

Now then, to the real issue at heart. The exchange whores. These are the people who contribute mostly to this nutty inflation. My main question, just what are they saving for? You see these people with 6 pairs of minis or 13 pairs of headphones and you have to wonder just how much of the pie do they need to eat before they get sick? Why aren't people just selling off those items? Would it be so wrong to sell off one of your 17 devil tails for 1 million gold instead of four? I know I'm gonna hear about this.

"Oh stop whining and work for it"

Work for what? Why should Gaia be about work? Last time I check, Gaia was about fun.

"I worked hard for mine, why shouldn't everyone else?"

Because that's a selfish and egotisical viewpoint. I'm glad some people can go on the vend 8 hours a day and make tons. Not all of us have that option, and frankly, spending that much time on the vend is bad for your health and social life, TRUST me I know. It took me almost a year to get my devil tail. I can honestly say that if they started selling every 03 donation and event item in the shop, even for like 200,000 a pop I would not be upset at all. It's about time something was done.

"Well hey, they're just items."

True, but aren't the items one of the main defining features of this site? Would we even be here if we couldn't create and play around with our nifty avatars? Aren't there tons of more forum sites that we could go to?

"STFU U are such a noob!"

Bite me. I am really sick and tired that every time someone complains about the price rises in Q and F or the exchange all the rich a** elitisdts with headphones, devil tails, and chickies go in their threads and yell at them.

The problem is, none of those gaians who are multi millionaires remember what it was like to be new, starting out with 500 gold and nowhere to go up but slowly up. Most of the rich exchangers seem to think that getting an 03 item now is no more difficult than it was a year ago, and thusly they treat everyone who is upset about it like crap.

"But people like Alexi and Jagr made millions on that exchange whore contest and they started with empty accounts"

Yes, and they also don't have a problem with buying oct 03 letters off the vend for 1 gold because some poor sap placed commas in their buy now price. So then, someone who probably was trying to sell a D-tail for 1.5 million lost exactly that much gold by a simple, and human accident. Maybe I'm wrong, but there is something horrid about someone losing such a rare item because of a simple mistake, and shouldn't it be a vendor responsiblity (Especially an extremely rich vendor) to realize that it was a mistake and give it back?

"No, because the rules state that it's your own fault if you screw up and so sad too bad blah blah blah"

Whatever. You know, 03 was a nice time for Gaia. People gave each other items like headphones and d-tail at the drop of a hat. 04 showed the propensity for Gaian greed, and 05 is looking worse by the day.

Well, I know it's unlikely I'll get flamed by this guild's members, but in any case I am ready to hear opnions, and want to see how others feel.

Once again though, I would like to reinerate one very important point.

I have a devil tail, sash, two omgs and two NM scarves.

I want their values to drop (Or be more acessable), that's right, drop. Even though I may end up selling my tail.

Thanks for hearing me out.

*is an exchange whore who buys/sells items for profit, uses inflation to make gold, and believes that the Gaian economy is based on the inflation of hard to find items and only people that "work" for it (or use entreprenurial [spelling???] methods to earn extra gold) are entitled to them*
Don't hurt me gonk

I dunno about this issue against inflation. Item value will go up on items like the '03s and the good '04s (namely June) because of 2 key factors:
-people really like the items and are willing to pay that much (which is what defines an item's value, does it not?)
-there are a limited amount of them in a growing population of new Gaians (Supply and Demand take great effect here)

Besides, how many items on Gaia are that expensive? 20-30 out of the hundreds if not thousands of items on Gaia? There are other items people can pay for, not just the '03 Donation Items 3nodding

I'm not about to type as much as Sabin did on this subject...so there's my 2 cents xd

The Really Fast rise in the Dec 03s really made me go "Holy Crap" - XD I remember when I sold a Nitemare scarf for 2k, when I bought an OMG for 4k. when prices of the middle items go up that high, I dont see it as much of a problem of "supply and demand" such as the older older ones are. are there really so few Nitemare/Angelic scarf's that people have to charge 400k suddenly for it? Like sabin said, the majority of the older donation items are no longer going to people who actually want the items, but people who want to raise the price of them. When I was questing for Minis, and finally reached an acceptable offer for them, it took around a month to find a seller, because certain people were buying them, and then selling them higher, again and again and again. I was really frusterated because I actually wanted that item, it wasn't for profit, it was because I liked the item.

The only item I miss I had to give up was my AFK, and now I feel like I dont have much of a chance to get it back since I dont have the heart to exchange anymore.

In real life, collectable items are not re-released to satisfy demand, they're left to increase in price and make them worth collecting 3nodding

very true I suppose, but having an item that much easier to obtain takes out the fun of it for most questers

*agrees completely*

I wouldn't mind them Re-Releasing DJ's or Ports (xDD Because I want them)

But even me right now, I'm dirt poor, I have been working off of 6K got the past 2 weeks for fishing, I may look rich, but I am not, and honestly this inflation isn't affecting me at all, I'm fine with the items I have, It would be great to get a devil tail, but I'm not ever going to get that much gold, so I just figure i won't get it, and work with the items I can afford.

Re-Release the items if you want Gaia, I honestly won't care, but from the gaians who WILL care, you could lose the bets members you have, the old members, who were there.

I have one more solution to this.

Re-Release the items, but maybe a different version of them, as in the OMFG, or the new Bags that you can get that look like the emo bags.

There are alternatives to releasingt he odler items, we just have to think of them.

I hate this inflation, Venders (ME and my friends) are getting blammed for this inflation, I happen to not be vending this month, so I have no part in it, but it's irritating having my friends be blammed for this.