What does [PRICE CHECK] mean as a thread title?

Discussion in 'Empire Help & Support' started by ElmofiedBoby, Apr 7, 2015.

  1. Just curious, I was browsing around the Empire Economy section, and I saw a ton of threads titled [PRICE CHECK]. Of course I know its asking to check prices, but how do they really work. Like I opened one thread, and the thread maker had a list of prices on there. It got me confused because I thought everyone else was supposed to tell the thread maker the prices, not the thread maker giving out prices. Then I saw comments about different prices. It got me pretty confused... Can someone explain to me this?
  2. The idea is that the op ask for prices and people give their best guess. The weird one you saw was likely the op guessing on what was the prices and others were correcting him.
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  3. As jk said right above, usually price check threads mean that the owner is looking at the approximate market value of one or more items. If you saw a thread where the owner of the thread started price checking his own items, then that is very weird. =P
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  4. It can be used to check prices of certain items or to corroborate suspected value of items. For example, if I were to sell you 100 DCs of Sandstone for 1 million rupees and you're not sure it's a fair price, you can come into those forums and ask for a price check on a DC of sandstone.

    It's typically used for promos though because the prices can vary quite a bit and they do increase in value. Unless you're a dedicated player that's closely monitoring the market (I'm not the latter btw), you will generally have a rough time tracking the prices.

    FTR, 1 million for 100 DCs is imo a ripoff. :p
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  5. So the person who created the thread has the original prices right? If any players think one of the items should be changed, they reply with a different price.
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  6. When most people do a price check, afterwards they will list the prices in the origanel OP..
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  7. Thanks guys for the quick reply :D I will put up a price check thread with the promos I have >: )