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Old 05-30-2017, 03:21 PM
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I just sold 6k of items for 3k because I wasn't paying attention and went with the average price (monthly not weekly) from AHungry's site. (Also I was gone for awhile and prices dropped while I was gone, so I figured "oh this is just the new normal). This was totally my fault, and I'm not looking for sympathy, but just to save others from the same mistake, DO NOT USE AHUNGRY's TRACKER AS YOUR ONLY PRICE CHECK.

The site has been so reliable in the past I got complacent, but today I learned that, whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system, Ahungry (and presumably the other trackers too) can be very wrong ... and not just briefly, but for over a month, making even those seemingly safe "monthly average prices" not so safe.
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Old 05-30-2017, 03:25 PM
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Ahungry is bad. Ahungry has always been bad.

www.p99tunnel.com is less bad, but still needs work and lacks a lot of features of p99a.
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Old 05-30-2017, 03:29 PM
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Ahungry is bad. Ahungry has always been bad.

www.p99tunnel.com is less bad, but still needs work and lacks a lot of features of p99a.
I <3 P99 Tunnel, but they just don't seem to have as much data as Ahungry.

If only there was a site like P99 Tunnel with Ahungry's + the wiki's data ....
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Old 05-30-2017, 03:29 PM
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lol. this really needed to be posted. /s
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Old 05-30-2017, 03:47 PM
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whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system
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Old 05-30-2017, 04:06 PM
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Yeah - being as it updates the way it does I wouldn't use any price tracking system it has. It's useful to see who might have been selling an item you're looking for and hopefully reaching them in time. Atleast that's my primary use of it
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Old 05-30-2017, 06:22 PM
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I just sold 6k of items for 3k because I wasn't paying attention and went with the average price (monthly not weekly) from AHungry's site. (Also I was gone for awhile and prices dropped while I was gone, so I figured "oh this is just the new normal). This was totally my fault, and I'm not looking for sympathy, but just to save others from the same mistake, DO NOT USE AHUNGRY's TRACKER AS YOUR ONLY PRICE CHECK.

The site has been so reliable in the past I got complacent, but today I learned that, whether through site failure or someone deliberately trying to game the system, Ahungry (and presumably the other trackers too) can be very wrong ... and not just briefly, but for over a month, making even those seemingly safe "monthly average prices" not so safe.
Honestly you really can't go off a site for your prices. They can give you an idea, but some numbers are really skewed, like p99tunnel someone is doing some crazy stuff to the prices there.

Ahungry has never been reliable I have never used it, ever.

The old p99 auction site was the best of all of them so far.

P99tunnel has great features, but again, I noticed some really outlandish wonky prices on some items when I checked it earlier so you can't even use it now.

Essentially only way to know real prices is to tunnelquest frequently enough to see things come and go.
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Old 05-30-2017, 07:01 PM
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Old 05-30-2017, 07:49 PM
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I just hope the deal went to a toilet-user and not a fat cat.
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Old 05-30-2017, 08:09 PM
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can confirm, I single-handedly inflated the price of Canni 4 to 30k before it came crashing down
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