P99 Auctions is Closing

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by tristantio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh, and as typing this, I remember paulgiamatti is the guy who was guilded with the thief who ran off with my Fungi after a botched transfer when I trusted a random 50+ to assist me with it (at which time I had put out a call to action on my site condemning the aforementioned's guild).

Yeah, I mean that guy turned out to be a pathologically lying shitheel - even though my former guildmates probably don't agree with me - so I better understand your frustration in that moment today, but I still have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it. Ah well, I'm guildless now and don't elf sim as seriously these days. I'm glad your site is still up - hope that doesn't change anytime soon.

[lonmoer]

Originally Posted by tristantio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh, and as typing this, I remember paulgiamatti is the guy who was guilded with the thief who ran off with my Fungi after a botched transfer when I trusted a random 50+ to assist me with it (at which time I had put out a call to action on my site condemning the aforementioned's guild).

Paulgiamatti and that whole Azure Guard officer crew are a bunch of greedy shysters.

[pathius41]

Since we are all just tossing tinfoil hats around, I'm going to go out and blame GG for this!

[Nilstoniakrath]

Disappointing that a site gets taken down by DDOS nonsense, but as some have pointed out, p99 auctions was gamed a lot by those who understood how to play it. So on that level, good riddance.

[AndyErik]

Hello,

I've been a professional C# developer since its inception in 2002 and have been writing software for 17 years. I wrote two bug reports to P99auctions.com yesterday in an attempt to fix this issue for them. I also wrote an email to support@p99auctions.com. Neither of these requests for contact have been returned. If the owners of the site are reading this thread please PM me or reply to my requests so we can plug this hole asap.

It's a relatively routine issue that can be resolved with little headache.

- Throxis

[fugazi]

Originally Posted by AndyErik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hello,

I've been a professional C# developer since its inception in 2002 and have been writing software for 17 years. I wrote two bug reports to P99auctions.com yesterday in an attempt to fix this issue for them. I also wrote an email to support@p99auctions.com. Neither of these requests for contact have been returned. If the owners of the site are reading this thread please PM me or reply to my requests so we can plug this hole asap.

It's a relatively routine issue that can be resolved with little headache.

- Throxis

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[QFuzzle]

Originally Posted by AndyErik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hello,

I've been a professional C# developer since its inception in 2002 and have been writing software for 17 years. I wrote two bug reports to P99auctions.com yesterday in an attempt to fix this issue for them. I also wrote an email to support@p99auctions.com. Neither of these requests for contact have been returned. If the owners of the site are reading this thread please PM me or reply to my requests so we can plug this hole asap.

It's a relatively routine issue that can be resolved with little headache.

- Throxis

Yes! Somebody's at least trying to fix what's happening here. Thank you!

[paulgiamatti]

I'd hardly call that rampant manipulation. There's a good chance the people doing that - if they even were, I've yet to see an actual example - are the same people RMTing and flooding the site with data because their tunnelquest game is suffering.

People saying the AH is a net harm versus a net good has got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd hardly call that rampant manipulation. There's a good chance the people doing that - if they even were, I've yet to see an actual example - are the same people RMTing and flooding the site with data because their tunnelquest game is suffering.

People saying the AH is a net harm versus a net good has got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

Lance explained it perfectly, Paul^^ The thing is, once someone pushed a price to where they wanted, the community kept it there (until pushed/pulled again) because they would just price around the mean, what they perceived as a "fair" price. And pushing prices didn't take much of a time investment. You onky needed to auction once to get an entry on the site. 15 minutes or so a day with a set of macros and you could be pushing/pulling prices on dozens of items however you liked. I wouldn't feel bad for not noticing. Most people didn't.

I don't really care how much money people make. I pay what I want and sell for what I want. I just think it is an awful outcome when someone establishes these phony price points that nobody is willing to pay, forcing unassuming players to waste their time hoping for some purple relief to the green sea of EC, or the opposite: establishing lower price points to suck up all of a particular item for later resale (following a push) when other players could be using the item.

There's nothing wrong with reselling, but p99auctions severely retarded the process making resellers sit on wares for longer periods of time because they had to spend a bit more time manipulating prices rather than just serving as an intermediary to minimize players' time in EC. Meanwhile you have other players largely unaccustomed to the market being forced to spend more time in EC to move their wares, getting annoyed and growing belligerent because they find themselves unable to transact at the published "fair" prices for their items.

EC is full of assholes because of p99auctions.

[kaev]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EC is full of assholes because of p99auctions.

LOL

More like: P99 is full of assholes, and p99auctions manipulation and ddos victimization reflect this. Also, yours doesn't stink any less than anybody else's despite your apparent belief to the contrary.