Rare Values Articles [Your say]

[AgnesIO]

Skizzling posted in another thread with this idea; Make guides on how users can make a profit (playing games, trading for profit, betting etc). Another one which would attract users, especially newer users of habbo.

[Mr-Trainor]

I agree but there are already guides on the forum. However, I don't think that the guides should be in these articles but at the end of each one there can be links like:
- Check out our guide on how to make the most of your furniture
- Check out our values guides to help you with trading
And possibly others.

[-Danube-]

This is something i have always wanted to do an i've toyed with the idea on multiple occasions. When we merged hotels i did a little page called 'Merge Watch' it lasted a week or two and i basically put items on there that i expected to change in price (going up/down or staying stable) most of these are predictions and athough many did come true (common sense to guess what was going up and down in the merge) somethings did not behave as predicted and i did get a few angry people claiming to have "put all their money" into items i said would go up but didn't. You can't ever get it 100% accurate.

A couple of years ago this was easy to do, for example it's Halloween so i could have said to buy things like Halloween cauldrons etc etc but now due to the marketplace this would have been a stupid mistake to make. The halloween cauldron is something you expect to rise at this time of year but guess what, it didn't, it actually fell. Someone put once in the MP at 24C (6C lower than it's average) and that meant everyone else put theirs in lower and lower meaning it soon ended at 20C. So yeah, it's really hard to predict.

Although it is easier to guess with things like the throne, everytime new items are released into the catalog it is guarenteed to drop, people are selling off their throne for credits to buy the news items. Then once the hype of the new items die down, people think 'oh i'll buy a cheap throne' then the price starts to go up and up and up again.

But overall this is starting to become an even harder thing to do. But i will think about it as i think its a great idea, it's something i've always wanted to do.

[Mr-Trainor]

I agree Dan. Like I said before, it isn't as easy to predict things now than it was before and it is because of the marketplace. A great example of this was with me and my petal patches earlier Put them in the Market at 27-28c (lower than the 29c cheapest) and they all sold until there was 8 left of 28. At this point the cheapest offer seemed to drop every 10 minutes!

It's easier now-a-days for people to sell things quickly but only if they sell them cheap, so that's what they do. However, a cheap one off offer on the marketplace is enough to affect the value of an item, which is unfortunate really!

I still think this should be considered though because it's still a great idea. I think it should definitely go ahead as an article regarding the current Market state but if needed, the predictions part could always just be taken out and only mentioned lightly in other sections. For example 'The Market as been up and down lately for many common but high priced items. Items like the Throne and Granite Fountain are very low and we predict they could go lower!'

[-Danube-]

It does seem a good idea in theory, but if the predications part was left out i can see this article being the same every time, just saying the market is going down and down.

[Ajthedragon]

I think this would influence the market too much. Frankly the rare values staff should just do their jobs.

[AgnesIO]

I think this would influence the market too much. Frankly the rare values staff should just do their jobs.

I know what you mean, but at the moment there isn't really that much point. Not being rude, but it's true.

[Alex3213]

I think this would influence the market too much. Frankly the rare values staff should just do their jobs.

Who knows what their job is though? Personally I think that we should all try to strive and change the role if it helps for the better, competitions changed immensely from December to January last year, I think it helped tbh (please, let's not get onto that now though as that's for another thread). Rare Values needs help with the marketplace in action and I think reviews is great now that Lost-Shark doesn't do that Rare Prediction thing anymore (ages ago, I know!). This would be the same and is something unique for Habbox. Do it.

[AgnesIO]

Who knows what their job is though? Personally I think that we should all try to strive and change the role if it helps for the better, competitions changed immensely from December to January last year, I think it helped tbh (please, let's not get onto that now though as that's for another thread). Rare Values needs help with the marketplace in action and I think reviews is great now that Lost-Shark doesn't do that Rare Prediction thing anymore (ages ago, I know!). This would be the same and is something unique for Habbox. Do it.

Spot on. Also Aydan, I do not think we can talk about influencing the market too much, when for over five years the UK hotel used our values like a bible..

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Anything that is unique in my opinion is worth a shot if it could bring people to Habbox.