Glitch or Feature?

[Mattzap]

When items become popular and double in price, I'm still able to buy them for the normal price in the Merchant's guilds. This allows me to make a lot of profit as I can just buy them for that price and sell them for 240%, but I'm curious if this is intended.

[cearn]

The normal buying price for items is 70% of base price. For red items it's 84%. So the price has increased when you buy them, but not by much. So yes, you can make a killing if you buy red items and manage to sell them right away.

[Krayola]

Really 84% ?
I thought the instructions says that the merchants guild sell items for a set (static) price?

[cearn]

Nope, it varies with the announcements.

Blue: 56% of baseprice.
Normal: 70% of baseprice.
Red: 84% of baseprice.

Funny, I always thought that blue was around 40% and red 100%. Just goes to show you should always check.

[Mattzap]

Thanks for the info! IMO red items should be more expensive, as the profit margins are ridiculous, although having 700k in the 4th week was nice :)