UK Market Decline

[alexxxxx]

I can't believe that a throne is worth 32CS or whatver. I remember the time when you could get one for 14CS.

I think it would be a good idea to remove the Habbox Rare Values page for a few weeks. See how trade reacts.

[theman0001]

I can't believe that a throne is worth 32CS or whatver. I remember the time when you could get one for 14CS.

I think it would be a good idea to remove the Habbox Rare Values page for a few weeks. See how trade reacts.

last time that happend (when habbox was hacked) most people just stopped trading.

[Elkaa]

last time that happend (when habbox was hacked) most people just stopped trading.

True that. What suprized me was that even the super rare traders stopped, as well.

[Zuar]

I wonder what would happen if the trade broke.
Habbo would be habbo again.. and not just about the furniture.

[Hazza]

I wonder what would happen if the trade broke.
Habbo would be habbo again.. and not just about the furniture.

I actually want that to happen, All people care about on habbo is furni, furni, furni... Not fun?

[Jamesy]

well re-releasing old rares kinda puts off the richers habbos who have lots of petals and stuff. So they go. And the recolurs are just crap really. What was the last good rare habbo put out. That was just a new rare, not a recolour, seaonal, re-release. They seem to just run out of ideas now. Its stupid. i mean foreign hotels get a lot more interesting furni. By the time was get it, everyone will have left.

[tinyjosh01]

last time that happend (when habbox was hacked) most people just stopped trading.

agreed most shops stopped trade rooms were lost. the people who carried on trading were doing it for what they thought.
like a hc for things no one would even consider with values.

[-:Undertaker:-]

well re-releasing old rares kinda puts off the richers habbos who have lots of petals and stuff. So they go. And the recolurs are just crap really. What was the last good rare habbo put out. That was just a new rare, not a recolour, seaonal, re-release. They seem to just run out of ideas now. Its stupid. i mean foreign hotels get a lot more interesting furni. By the time was get it, everyone will have left.

I don't think it's the recolours that are affecting the market, at the start of the recolour era we had 10,000+ people on our UK Hotel and as we saw from things like Red Pillows and Black Smokes many were bought and then slided down to 0.2 - 0.5 because there were so many of them, then about 1 week later there was a craze on them and they would rise - We don't see this any more.

Black Monoliths and Red Dragons are a good example as they would be higher if our hotel was bigger, Blac Monolith: 4.5 CS and Red Dragon: 3 CS but since we're losing visitors they seem to be struggling, Black Monoliths are slowly creeping down and down and Red Dragons have hit 1.5

What currently happens with new rares that come out is that how ever many are bought they seem to stick and 1 CS and don't move at all, new rares have become unteresting in their value pattens.

And good point about the supers, they seem to be dropping a A LOT, I predicted Birdbaths would hit 2T this year but now that seems very likely.

[The Professor]

Yes. Everything is extremely hard to sell, especially at the prices habbox are posting. I think the RVR's are over inflating everything by way too much, which is causing people to buy everything, and then when they struggle to sell they rapidly lower prices.

RVRs do their best to provide accurate prices, so don't start on it. One of the problems is that when Ymo was manager the rare values page was updated rarely, but now we have new management it should run more smoothly.

IMO I think everyone is getting that bit smarter. Many more people look for pure hcs, and I think we're lucky to of gotten into mostly thrones before hcs.

I've also found that getting pure HCs for unpure is next to impossible these days. This is probably the main reason; because people want pures so much for betting and dealing etc the price of unpures has fallen as desperate people are trying to sell.

This is something I've noticed in the Super Rare trading market as well.

This week alone, Supers that I expected to peak extremely soon have been dropping like flys. By now, I personally expected the Red/Blue Bird Baths to have hit 4 Throne - They're still at around 3T 2hc each.

The Yellow Amber has dropped, even though that's a key summer item. I've picked up 6 this week for just 3T each.

It's already made me reconsider my plans for investing for summer time furniture. I was originally going to buy 80 yellow ambers - That's just abruptly changed.

What you say about Supply and Demand is starting to make sence, as well. Back when super rares were worth 30T each, there were upto 15,000 people online. Now, 7,500 is around the peak. Hugely less users, exact same (slightly more due to release) amount of supers, huge price decrease.

Personally, I feel the only safe investment is the petal patch.

I dont think the super rares are falling for the same reason. A good reason I can think of is because the rich people are getting richer, which is removing a lot of spending power from the economy. People just dont have the furni to buy supers these days, and can only offer small amounts or unpure for supers. Super rare traders dont like this and hang on to the supers, making the super rare trading market stand still or decline further as when they do want to sell, their prices are too high and they have to lower.

The rising price of the throne is another problem. It doesn't necassarily (sp?) mean the price is falling, but as the price of supers has to be reajusted to match the price of the throne it can seem that way.

I can't believe that a throne is worth 32CS or whatver. I remember the time when you could get one for 14CS.

I think it would be a good idea to remove the Habbox Rare Values page for a few weeks. See how trade reacts.

The throne would be around 45HC if certain events hadn't lowered the price dramatically (it being released accidentally and the "orb of doom" vote being 2)

last time that happend (when habbox was hacked) most people just stopped trading.

Above quote answers the second point to the one above that.

I actually want that to happen, All people care about on habbo is furni, furni, furni... Not fun?

If you go in trading rooms yes, that is what they care about. A sizable portion of the habbo community also goes in non-trading rooms: mafias, chill rooms etc.

Also, playing habbo without any furniture isn't really worth it unless you have a room you go to all the time. You cant make your own rooms, which is where half the fun is.

well re-releasing old rares kinda puts off the richers habbos who have lots of petals and stuff. So they go. And the recolurs are just crap really. What was the last good rare habbo put out. That was just a new rare, not a recolour, seaonal, re-release. They seem to just run out of ideas now. Its stupid. i mean foreign hotels get a lot more interesting furni. By the time was get it, everyone will have left.

Why are recolours bad? It just means your favourite type of furniture has a better chance of fitting in with a room you want to make. Re-realeasing old rares will always be a good profit maker by sulake because people want things for cheap, therefore they will buy the rare, meaning there are more of them, meaning the price will reduce and stay there for a while as there is high demand. This will probably keep happening for a while to come, if not forever.

New rares that have been released in the last year: Sleeping bag, road barrier, traffic light, lazer gate, solariums, moon rug, snow rug, sand patch, shrubbery stuff, gothic range, asian range, new HC furni, inflatable chair.
Add that to: Ecotron, habbo exchange, recoloured mode and iced and new iced furniture, I dont think we've had a bad run of new furnis

[Jamesy]

its kinda odd tht we are all talking about the callapse of the habbo "economy" when reall all it is a virtual furniture on a computer screen deep in cyberspace...