Behind are the Ragial days, where people have an average price and some price evolution historycally stored in a website.
I want to make a point here and be clear: An item price is set by the buyer and the vendor by common agree. A flattery may cost 5m if both parts agree that price, but we all know there are sort of average price for certain items wich may have a tiny or wide range of prices. However, the reason of this is what everyone who play this beloved game knows before december hiatus. The exit of Ragial from our economy has impact the way we look for prices. In a common day, you can search an average item price by forum market section, facebook groups dedicated to market in Ragnarok, discord servers with market channels and shopping board ingame.
This last is the reason of this post. There are certain players who stock the zeny to the limit and put items under the common average price to try pull down the price and take advantage of the people selling at the price they set, even sometimes under that price. Its responsibility of the seller the price they want to sell (I wont discuss that), but in the case of new players, or old players returning back to RO with this unknown economy its common to look at the boards for a price reference and watch these lowballers.
Chakri may explain this in short words:
Current shopping board is as manipulative as Ragial. You can pretty much have a max. zeny char vending an item that cant be bought. Also, this -> this price cutter will use an alt to monitor the lowest price <-, so either you play iRO 24/7 to monitor the board (assuming you dont use bots to do it for you?), or you can just sell WPE lol
Anyway, yeah things dont sell not because of WP. Most of oging in iRO is due to players xD
And then we have the "RO1 In Game Rules and Guidelines" where the first rule is:
And then the big question. Is this activity "Manipulating the market with lowball prices" may be considered as "Morally Suspect" and can be reported?