Vendor Buy-Back Broken

[Tallahasee]

<p>I think we're all familiar with the term "vendor-trash".  This may not be a large source of revenue on "Live" servers, but on Test, it is significant portion of our, or at least, my income.</p><p>Since the launch of the expansion, the calculation that determines the value of said items seems to be broken.</p><p>For example, a T8 Treasured item like "Cuffs of the Durus Clan", which would sell back for 13gp 50sp, is now selling back for 1gp 35sp.</p><p>This bug, however, does not seem to affect the Guild Hall Amenity (Guild Commodities Exporter).</p><p>Cheers.</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small; color: #0000ff;">Caele 80 Mystic/80 Carpenter of Test</span></p>

[EtoilePirate]

<p>All the prices are super-go-nuts wonky.</p><p>I have Kella in full L80 instance Legendary and a few pieces of L80 fabled.  Yesterday we went into an instance, Kella dirt-napped a lot and I came out at 40% (aggro transfer ON, silly assassin, ON).  I hit the mender in South Freeport and he charged me roughly 1g50s, TOTAL, to mend.  Previous to this patch, I'd been spending ~3g50s per death.</p><p>Collectibles are mysteriously defaulting to 1s16c as opposed to their previous 8c.  Body drops ("fragment of metal," that sort of thing) are still selling in their standard 35-95s range (depending on type, etc.).  I had a piece of Legendary L77 mage armor (from an armor set) on my broker for what had been its default vendor price, 33g.  I pulled it off the broker and went around comparing its buyback price at merchants: in Freeport, in a Guild Hall, and in Maj'Dul, every vendor offered me 2g16s.  Its sale value is now SIX PERCENT (if my pocket calculator skillz hold up) of what it was before the patch.</p><p>I never had the impression that these things were broken.  Why "fix" them so suddenly and so sweepingly?</p>

[Skeezie]

<p>Weird pricing is directly related to TSO - I have one account without it (while I decide if I'm staying on as a second class citizen in SOE's world or canecelling them all and moving on) and the prices on a character from there selling to/buying from vendors is normal.  It's also only Test related, I patched one account to live to see if Ykesha was enabled there and checked pricking while i was there - everything seems normal there so its a Test thing (and while i appreciated the bargain rate mender bills, unless we have spill over from the world market crashes - our economy is definitely in its own recession).</p>

[EtoilePirate]

<p><cite>Skeezie wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Weird pricing is directly related to TSO - I have one account without it (while I decide if I'm staying on as a second class citizen in SOE's world or canecelling them all and moving on) and the prices on a character from there selling to/buying from vendors is normal.  It's also only Test related, I patched one account to live to see if Ykesha was enabled there and checked pricking while i was there - everything seems normal there so its a Test thing (and while i appreciated the bargain rate mender bills, unless we have spill over from the world market crashes - our economy is definitely in its own recession).</p></blockquote><p>Apparently it has been seen on Live as well: <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=436296" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=436296</a></p><p>Also Skeezie after being patched late, and being colectively outraged about it, on the last four expansions... why'd you expect anything different this time?  <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Anyway you can't quit, because I don't want to find a new tank. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Skeezie]

<p><cite>EtoilePirate wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Also Skeezie after being patched late, and being colectively outraged about it, on the last four expansions... why'd you expect anything different this time?  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" />  Anyway you can't quit, because I don't want to find a new tank. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /></p></blockquote><p>It is just so much of a slap in the face it is frustrating beyond belief.  I'm not sure I'm going to quit yet, the earliest of my accounts due on billing is in two weeks - so I'll decide before then.  I'm going to chase down some names and addresses, however, to take the known inequities further. </p><p>I've always been a Sony fan, have a number of Sony products and when I buy electronics I look to that name first.  For instance, I recently purchased a new, improved, all sorts of fun features Sony digital camera - and there again, it was my brand of choice.   In the business world you look to names of companies you respect - I have always respected the Sony name for the quality of their product and it's why I look to them first.  I have a fair amount of disposible income (true justification for higher education!) and I spend a tidy sum on toys.  In my 'toybox' there is a large number of electronics that I add to, and replace, at a steady pace.   Losing me as a customer will not bankrupt Sony but they won't lose me quietly, that much is for certain.  If I go, there will be more than one executive, in more than one department and likely in more than one country  that knows the reason why. </p><p>Like it or not, SoE is part of a larger company, and anything and everything they do reflects on Sony.   SoE won't close its door if they lose my 100 bucks or a month but but I'll be someone, somewhere, will find it interesting why one of their faithful customers is now looking at other brands.</p><p>I'm going to take a day or two to calm down, read the fine print in a perspectus or two and see what a couple days does for my disposition.</p>

[Skeezie]

<p><cite>Skeezie wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>and everything they do reflects on Sony.   SoE won't close its door if they lose my 100 bucks or a month but but I'll be someone, somewhere, will find it interesting why one of their faithful customers is now looking at other brands.</p></blockquote><p>/sigh</p><p><Would someone please give access to the other me - the one that CAN edit my messages - forumhandle skeezie2 and move the little TESTER word (above the icon on the left) that goes with this one to that one.></p><p>Throwing a tantrum is far less convincing when there is a typo.</p><p>Replace the "but but I'll be" with "but I'll bet" when you're reading please.</p>