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There is a difference in the time it takes to enter an item's name into the marketplace's search box and the time it takes to navigate to the store, wait for all the graphics to load, then browse through the store's inventory page by page until you find the item you want, however. And if you had the wrong store in mind, you'd have to repeat the process with the next store.

And speaking of browsing, that's another thing: what if you don't know exactly what you want, are seeking inspiration for a new look, or just want to see what's trendy? The marketplace is more random, and therefore possibly more interesting, than NPC stores that always feature the same items in the same order.

The only "caveat emptor" I'm familiar with has nothing to do with price but rather with the legality of items? For example, if you buy a cell phone from a Taxi Cab driver for $5 then "caveat emptor" would say that if that cell phone turned out stolen you're out $5. Or were you, perhaps, just talking about the notion of "buyer beware" in general?

About shop items on the market place being more expensive, I don't think it's as unlikely as it may seem, really.

-The people who price it under the shop will sell relatively fast (taking into account that not everybody goes to the market to find the price.)

-The people who price it at the shop value will sell kind of frequently... people might just buy it there for convenience.

-The people who price it over the shop value wiil sell it rarely (although 1 post's worth of gold value over might do okay.)


Something like this could build an illusion of everybody pricing their stuff high if these items aren't being introduced into the marketplace very quickly. I imagine that people don't sell their really cheap clothing for a little gold all that often, and it has to be the same item as everybody else as well. I think this sets the case where people who overprice their items will hang around for a while, people who price their items well will sell fairly fast and will not likely be seen.

In addition, somebody who buys and sells for more is more likely to put a shop item into the marketplace, imo, even if they're fairly rare.

I think it sort of makes sense, but at the same time it doesn't, but the reason it doesn't is because there are stupid/ignorant people in the world (and on Gaia, too.) (If you don't believe they exist on Gaia then I suggest you think about the chain letter problem...)

When i sell items on teh Marketplace. I always look at other people's prices and automatically go lower. Like Example: I accidently bought a shirt i'd already had because *blushes* My equip inventory is getting quite large. Anyways said shirt cost me 313 gold. Now i don't want to sell it back because i made a mistake and only get half of my gold back so i sell it on the marketplace and set it for both buy and bid. I set buy price at 299 and starting bid price 290 i think. I didn't inflate ridiculously but i did kind inflate a little when i went to sell some extra mimzies *turns red* But i think inflation is just freaking wrong. It's different with Thank You Letters and stuff because those you can't buy for cheaper at the stores. Well you can but let's say you didn't even have a Gaia account when that Thank You Letter you want came out then you couldn't have. redface Sorry when i get to ranting and raving boy it's hard to stop. sweatdrop whee

Not all people do that. I bought my kimono for about 115 gold less than the store price.

EDIT: But I find it shocking that people price something so common thats worth not even 1 gold so high.

one of the only ways gaia could fix it's rapidly less popular donation item system would be to have like 3 days where they become rare drops or boxes for events,

example a blue giftbox can give AFK or OMG hats

yes this would make some rich people made, but this would also decrease the overall price of items.

But time also remidies this, as more and more people join, more and more donation items are bought so the items will eventually even out to a more affordable price.

But if gaia has limited release items every month, and they are some of the most wanted items, they prices will continue to increase and eventually become out of control.

I understand, if someone is asking for 4 g for ticket and selling 1000 of them at 4000 g or any other GAME items, but store items...dude.
They should but some sort of limiter, when they are selling those items. Like if someone is trying to sell Ribbon Skirt (which costs about 1320g and rarely seen under 2k at MP), the seller won't be able to sell it at higher than the store price.
I got wide attack, when I suggested this and putting store price to be seen clearer at MP. I never thought that there were really so many idiots, who are really selling things so overpriced.

I usually wonder, what kind of stupid people think that people buy things over store price and even more, what kind of stupid people do buy them over store price.