They're just baiting with terrible bait, Eldritch is so-so in popularity, but the hoarders are even more stingy than usual due to lair space issues iirc.
I asked 15kg if paying with partial items and substantionally less with pure, pricing based on auctions and flatsales, for refference an XXY eld/black went for 16-17kg or something in auction (which is lowballed lmao) while a different XYX sold for 10kg so woo.
But it really doesn't matter as that account got locked (deets for why is in the wanker thread RE Pereskaia) and so its rotting away.
DA I don't think it was terrible bait. I don't entirely agree with their pricing evaluation, but I agree with the base sentiment. Something is only "worth" what others will pay for it. And honestly, eldritch and buttercup go horribly together, with most of the eldritch gene options giving a green tint or green accents. The ones that didn't (well, they did a little but it wasn't as jarring as the others), ripple/current and bar/daub still had a lime green tongue, forcing the use of glimmer to cover it up. And imo, the ice eyes looked jarring against the color combo. So I think the first anon wasn't that far off in asking if your price was way too high. If a triple black range XXY went for 17k gems, I wouldn't expect this dragon to go anywhere near that. As one of the other anons said, I can get gen ones that work for cheap. Why should I pay 15k gems for one where I'm still forced into using certain genes because of the color combination? And still not entirely happy with how it looks?
Obviously people can set a sale price for whatever they want, but if they set it high, higher than others feel it is worth, then they shouldn't be surprised if they don't get a sale.
Fully agree on the worth of a dragon is what people'll pay for it, but as I never got a single offer with any sort of pure in it I wouldn't know outside people in the original IC telling me to start at 10kg so frankly weren't super confident going lower, though if I had any offer even with just 2kg pure I'd likely taken it as I needed pure for other projects high priority. Asking price =//= expected sell price.
As for the tert, personally MetAlloyGhost look like a stunner, even with the green tint (which Obs, everyones fave black also has in alot of genes). But each to their own, green tongue only shows on 3 breeds so that is abit of a meh arguement to use imo (there is no accounting for taste afterall) and I fully agree with the eyes, Ice eyes are terrible unless you have a white range color in there (come at me ice eye stans).
And while at it, I too have gotten G1s for cheap that personally looked more stunning than any double (Like my Midnight/Overcast/Cantaloupe girl or Eldritch/Ruby/Abyss boy), everyone can do that. But as I said, she's rotting away on a now dead account and that is all to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: G1 Woes
(Anonymous) 2018-03-20 11:19 am (UTC)(link)They're just baiting with terrible bait, Eldritch is so-so in popularity, but the hoarders are even more stingy than usual due to lair space issues iirc.
I asked 15kg if paying with partial items and substantionally less with pure, pricing based on auctions and flatsales, for refference an XXY eld/black went for 16-17kg or something in auction (which is lowballed lmao) while a different XYX sold for 10kg so woo.
But it really doesn't matter as that account got locked (deets for why is in the wanker thread RE Pereskaia) and so its rotting away.
Re: G1 Woes
(Anonymous) 2018-03-20 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)I don't think it was terrible bait. I don't entirely agree with their pricing evaluation, but I agree with the base sentiment. Something is only "worth" what others will pay for it. And honestly, eldritch and buttercup go horribly together, with most of the eldritch gene options giving a green tint or green accents. The ones that didn't (well, they did a little but it wasn't as jarring as the others), ripple/current and bar/daub still had a lime green tongue, forcing the use of glimmer to cover it up. And imo, the ice eyes looked jarring against the color combo. So I think the first anon wasn't that far off in asking if your price was way too high. If a triple black range XXY went for 17k gems, I wouldn't expect this dragon to go anywhere near that. As one of the other anons said, I can get gen ones that work for cheap. Why should I pay 15k gems for one where I'm still forced into using certain genes because of the color combination? And still not entirely happy with how it looks?
Obviously people can set a sale price for whatever they want, but if they set it high, higher than others feel it is worth, then they shouldn't be surprised if they don't get a sale.
Re: G1 Woes
(Anonymous) 2018-03-20 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)Fully agree on the worth of a dragon is what people'll pay for it, but as I never got a single offer with any sort of pure in it I wouldn't know outside people in the original IC telling me to start at 10kg so frankly weren't super confident going lower, though if I had any offer even with just 2kg pure I'd likely taken it as I needed pure for other projects high priority. Asking price =//= expected sell price.
As for the tert, personally MetAlloyGhost look like a stunner, even with the green tint (which Obs, everyones fave black also has in alot of genes). But each to their own, green tongue only shows on 3 breeds so that is abit of a meh arguement to use imo (there is no accounting for taste afterall) and I fully agree with the eyes, Ice eyes are terrible unless you have a white range color in there (come at me ice eye stans).
And while at it, I too have gotten G1s for cheap that personally looked more stunning than any double (Like my Midnight/Overcast/Cantaloupe girl or Eldritch/Ruby/Abyss boy), everyone can do that. But as I said, she's rotting away on a now dead account and that is all to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯