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Listing at 1k allows more users to see the player and creates advertising and is a good strategy to try and get a high price via more bidders.

In this particular case, the player would have sold for a lot more if the site did not freeze.
It's not like he is unjustly angry.

Listing at 1k allows more users to see the player and creates advertising and is a good strategy to try and get a high price via more bidders.

Sorry, I disagree. Yes, you will generate the "bookmark" bids if you list a player for next to nothing, but you also risk selling him for less than market value. If the player was worth, say, $800k, and the seller actually wanted $800k for him, then he should list him for $800k.

In this particular case, the player would have sold for a lot more if the site did not freeze.
It's not like he is unjustly angry.

Again, sorry, but you don't know that to be fact and neither does the OP. He's not upset that the site froze, he's upset that his player sold for less than he wanted. The problem here is that this type of thing has happened before in BB, on a much grander scale, and is one of the reasons you can't list a player for $0.

Therefore, I contend that his claim that his player sold for less than he wanted rests entirely on the fact that he listed him for less than he wanted. If he had listed the player for $800k and BB went down, do you think we'd be reading this thread right now?

I think that listing at 1k is a risk, however, sometimes listing at 1k can result in a high bidding price because 2 players really want this player so the price goes above the market value.
I often list players at 1k, and I often list them at higher prices too, so I understand both points and the benefits and risks of both.
If you look at my earlier posts, you will notice that I said that the site freezing is part of the risk you have to take when listing at 1k.

Let me ask you this, assuming the BB site did freeze, do you think the player that was listed would have sold for more had the site not frozen?

Let me ask you this, assuming the BB site did freeze, do you think the player that was listed would have sold for more had the site not frozen?

I have no idea what the skills of the player are, so I don't feel I can adequately answer this question.

Fair enough. :)

Again, sorry, but you don't know that to be fact and neither does the OP. He's not upset that the site froze, he's upset that his player sold for less than he wanted. The problem here is that this type of thing has happened before in BB, on a much grander scale, and is one of the reasons you can't list a player for $0.

No, Im upset because i woke up at 3:30 in the morning to monitor the sell of a 23 year old with sensational inside D and prolific rebounding and for the crucial 3/4 mins of the sale, i didnt not have the option of repurchasing my player. Nor did anyone have the ability to bid on my player.

This game is fun, for sure. But these glitches affect the experience.

Everybody doesn have 4/5 weeks to drop a players price 2 to 3% for each listing. Arguing your point is like saying a fire during an auction validates a guy getting a picasso for 500 dollars, right?

You season 1/2/3 guys have to understand the ground we have to make up. its hard enough catching up as a season 7 guy, but now, we can barely turn a profit on the guys we sell. So yes, in an instance such as this, where im trying to clear roster space and get some money out of a guy i have listed 4 times already this season without a bid, its a frustrating experience.

This is an age of buzzerbeater where we are now training players that we will not turn a profit on, something that you early guys were able to until recently do without. Trying to get better while losing money on our players puts us younger teams in a position that you guys cant understand.

Again, sorry, but you don't know that to be fact and neither does the OP. He's not upset that the site froze, he's upset that his player sold for less than he wanted. The problem here is that this type of thing has happened before in BB, on a much grander scale, and is one of the reasons you can't list a player for $0.

No, Im upset because i woke up at 3:30 in the morning to monitor the sell of a 23 year old with sensational inside D and prolific rebounding and for the crucial 3/4 mins of the sale, i didnt not have the option of repurchasing my player. Nor did anyone have the ability to bid on my player.

I'll stop you here. So you wanted to buy your player back, and were upset because you couldn't? It still seems you're upset about the transfer price of your player, and that had the site not frozen, you would've intentionally lost money to buy him back. Right?

This game is fun, for sure. But these glitches affect the experience.

I'm in total agreement with you on this point, but there's nothing you or I can do to change the fact that these things happen.

Everybody doesn have 4/5 weeks to drop a players price 2 to 3% for each listing. Arguing your point is like saying a fire during an auction validates a guy getting a picasso for 500 dollars, right?

It depends on the piece. If it was Don Quixote, I think the price was fair. If it was Guernica, on the other hand, I'd agree that $500 was too low. However, this is in a fantasy world where someone selling a Picasso is not going to ask for an amount they think is fair for a Picasso, they're just going to start the auction at $1.

And comparing a sensational ID and prolific RB player to a Picasso is frankly quite absurd. A quick check of the TL shows 35 such players (though two of them, to be quite honest, are rather rare birds).

You season 1/2/3 guys have to understand the ground we have to make up. its hard enough catching up as a season 7 guy, but now, we can barely turn a profit on the guys we sell. So yes, in an instance such as this, where im trying to clear roster space and get some money out of a guy i have listed 4 times already this season without a bid, its a frustrating experience.

This is an age of buzzerbeater where we are now training players that we will not turn a profit on, something that you early guys were able to until recently do without. Trying to get better while losing money on our players puts us younger teams in a position that you guys cant understand.

This is an entirely separate point, but it pretends that those of us who have been around for a while have never seen the economy take a giant crap before. We have. This isn't the first time, and certainly won't be the last.

What I can't imagine, however, is starting off in DII, quickly advancing to the top league in the country, sticking around for 5 seasons, all the while making impressive Cup appearances; then bitching about how folks that started playing earlier can't understand how hard it is to make money. Your last home game netted you about $200k more than my last home game gave me, while you're paying well over $100k less in salary than I am. Sounds like you're kicking me in the balls every week, profit-wise.

I have to apologize at this point, as I no longer feel any sympathy for you at all.

Last edited by darykjozef at 8/31/2010 3:24:51 AM

So you put a player in the TL with a camouflage price tag in order to lure buyers but you knew you wouldn't sell him for that price.

You could have me and others waking up at 3.30 to buy your player, just for us to realise you are fooling and making fun of us.
In your own words, "the game is for fun". Well fun for you with this kind of gaming, not for buyers who are here for fun too by the way.
You bet, you lost. Learn the lesson, unfair gaming will have fate go after you >>> ;)

Don't mess with us, the people !

Train players for your own team. That solves all your listing price problems.

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Can you people not read? This is why he is pissed. People were still bidding and the price would have went up at least another 200K. I had the high bid on the player for a while.( Was going to use him in the cup next season) Every time the site has a glitch they add like 2 or 3 hours to the players deadline..Why didn't this happen in this case? If you think about it...he put the player off for $1 and he was up to over 400K, that is like 50-100 bid pages this guy is on...I wouldn't call that stupid at all.

Can I get in on the complaining? A few weeks ago, my player only sold for 5.1 million: (6924768). One of the best PGs in BB should have gone for at least 500K more than that. If I knew he was going to sell for that price, I would not have listed him.

Oh wait - you're going to say that the site did not crash in my case, so it is not the same. Maybe, maybe not. Or maybe he went for market value? Really, I don't know, I don't understand the market these days.

All I know is that next time, if I am unwilling to part with a player without getting x compensation in return, then that's what I will list him for.