Is the MP really worth it?

[Zelda]

when i played habbo i had a theory: won't everything eventually be worth the same?

for example: you have a furni that you want to sell quick, so you put it in the marketplace at say 2-3c lower than the lowest price. someone else see's your price and again put's it 1-2c lower than your price. this goes on over a couple of months until it costs only 1-2c

obviously this doesn't apply to things that are 50c or more but on things that cost 4-40c

Na cause if its going to sell quick enough to effect, then profit hunters in mp will snatch up all the lower values Quickly, and cause this represents very few sales of the total in the day, as most will be bought normally, the average will remain the same on the next day. People who false rise end up buying it back and forth themselves a lot so that they actually can rise the days average a lot, so falls will only occur if someone actually uses the equal and opposite technique to move it lower. Obviously there's natural rise and fall though, being greater variation the higher the price, but this will normally either plateau or follow the what goes up most come down principal, in both going down and rising and visa versa. Hope that explains it for you x

[-:Undertaker:-]

I found that the marketplace was a tool which was used to greatly distort the market with short selling being used (the bulk selling or flooding by large dealers who would make the price collapse, then buy a greater quantity than they sold for cheaper prices). Of course I have no problem with people doing as they please as with that example, but it certainly locked many less wealthy traders out of the profit making part of the market which I found negative.

I think it made trading far too centralised.