[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.

[Kali_Namir]

WOW...That is extremely ridiculous!!!

I do hope they do another auction, that would be absolutely brilliant!!! And it would help revive the market.

[Reyoki]

It was quite the interesting experience. They had raffle tickets available in the Event Shop for 250 Aurum each and 10-packs for 2.5k and 20 Runes. Each ticket had its own number, and at the end of the event they called out the winners. You couldn't win more than 3 times, though.

I remember I won a Celestial Sprite and a Solar Kingdom from the raffle. There were other prized, too, like Beta items, old DIs, current DI sets, Runes by the hundreds, and previous Event Bundles. A majority of the prized were from permanently banned accounts.

[Kali_Namir]

That's cool...I really do wish they would do it again.

It would also boost activity!

[Reyoki]

Yeah, I must have spent over 7k on tickets. I was kinda miffed since I already had those items and only ever used the Celestial Sprite. Actually, it's still that way.

[Kali_Namir]

I like trying to use my solar kingdom...It's a hard item to use, but I feel accomplished when I do...

[Reyoki]

It is really pretty. I wish I had more chances to use it. Oh, but Nikko and I have picked our next cosplays!

[Kali_Namir]

Yays, what are you gonna do?

[Reyoki]

We are going to be Reno and Rude from FF:VII. Nikko is going to be Reno, and I'm going to be Rude. I already have mine ready to go in the editor. All I have to do is click the save button.

[Kali_Namir]

Nice...I wish I was really good with avatar creating...

[Reyoki]

You are though! Your avatars are beautiful!

[Kali_Namir]

See, I can't see that because I look at everyone else's avatars and think mine are dull and common...

[Reyoki]

Trust me, I feel the same way, especially when I hang around with Lucid and Batty.

[Kali_Namir]

Yeah...But then again, both you and Nikko are waaaay better than me.

I feel as though I really should have started a closet a long time ago, just so I could keep up with my avies...

[Reyoki]

Nah, we've just been here a long time, that's all. Nikko's been here even longer than me. I'm beginning to stump him with some of my item combinations, though. Shoot, I'm pretty much the grand master of item identification. Poggio gets mad because I can usually tell which items she uses to get all her fancy effects.

I haven't started a closet for myself; I just keep everything on my photobucket, and even then it's only if I really like what I've thrown together for the day.

[Kali_Namir]

Yeah...If I adore an avatar, I try to get art for it...