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People keep talking about how the market is "crashing" or whatever. they keep using shinies as a reference point though, and I think that's kind of silly?? If people collect shinies/albinos for a collection, they're not going to keep buying the same shinies once they've got them. Like if you sell only one type of shiny, you're going to eventually run out of non-deltaing customers just because everyone who wants one to keep is keeping them. And if you never delta them yourself, or sell them to delta, then yeah, you're going to backlog and then see very little business. Especially when you don't accept mixed payments or trade with items lol. Not to mention that zc is just freely available? There are a lot of people willing to spend money on zc and then spend that zc within the site, which of course means that Hypermode is easier to obtain. I'm sure a lot of people would rather hunt the shinies they want, rather than pay someone else. Some people don't even necessarily want to collect shinies, but just want to hunt (like me). I just. don't see the argument of "but I used to be able to sell for [whatever number]" as a valid argument. There's more people and more currency, and with that means prices will go down for things that don't have an easy way to exit the economy. It's like when people complain that the Market (the actually site Market) is artificially inflated. People (or at least one person) are clearly willing to buy things at those prices, so is it truly 'artifical'? Not really. It's just matching demand. Same thing with shinies; they simply aren't that much in demand. There's probably more regarding the amount of people actually willing to spend currency in bulk. like shiny legendaries. they're expensive and the big spenders already have the ones they want, so the majority of customers left are people who cant afford them. anyways thats my blurb blehh Edit because I also wanted to say that a lot of the so-called ""solutions"" people are submitting are just band-aid fixes. Long term, they aren't going to do anything. Like deltas were put in to "get shinies out of the market" (which is something I see brought up a lot as a way to raise the price of shinies) but not everyone wants their specials delta'd. It works, but only insofar as people are willing. If people only want to sell to collectors, then they'll have to accept that their customer base and demand will be limited.