[Reyoki]

A certain user who ran the leading price guide was hoarding a bunch of super rare items, buying them up immediately after they were put on sale and never putting them back out on the market, and scamming people out of Runes and aurum. They never included reported sales that were less than their minimum; only sales above the maximum in the guide, thus causing extreme artificial inflation for items across the board. The person was found out and permanently banned from Trisphee, but the hoarded items still lie dormant on the account. The only hope we have of seeing them return is a raffle like the one held during last year's User Appreciation Event. People stopped having faith in the market after that because nobody wanted to trust price guides anymore.

That's part of why Runes have shot up from 150 each to 250 each and why people aren't selling older items anymore. There's also the fact that a lot of older users have gone on an indefinite hiatus or quit without selling off their inventories, thus leaving fewer older items on the market at overall.