The 20 Alteration deal -- don't be ripped off.

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kamil1210 wrote:

This is not a scam...

Uh....ya, it is.
Is it a hot deal, to get a worse exchange rate than the vender would give you?

Given the nerf to chaos creation through vendor recipes, one would think that the value of chaos should be starting to go up pretty soon, if it hasn't already.

OP doesn't understand what a scam is.

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Leeway wrote:

OP doesn't understand what a scam is.

http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/248694/highlight/

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Shieze wrote:

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geffreyy wrote:

Stuff like this is exactly why you should go by poeex rates. It might look random but there is a method to the madness (on poeex the rate is 16 alterations = 1 chaos).

poeex is only meaningful if people are willing to trade at those rates. To give you an example trying to get 1 gcp for 3 chaos or 1 exalt for 15 chaos is a very hard thing to do.

Edit: Fixed a typo.

It's never taken me more than a couple minutes of advertising before someone has offered to trade their exalted for 15 chaos. Can't speak for GCPs, but I've trade for over a dozen exalteds over the last few weeks at that rate. This was before the recipe change.

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Zalm wrote:

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Archfiend wrote:

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Zalm wrote:

as I said before, not on noobcore. If you look at the difference between HC and SC, the trade rates and exchange rates differ slightly. Not alot, but there is a difference. And I usually see people using a different exchange rate for HC and they do in SC anyway.

And I do alot of SC running for practice for my HC builds, so I see alot of exchanges.

Its been 1 Exalt = 5 GCP = 15 Chaos = 30 Fusings for months now, please point me in the direction of people paying 6 GCP for an exalt because I would LOVE to exploit their kindness/idiocy?

This calculator has a fairly good exchange rate. Go ahead and test. put 1 into the exalt and see what comes out for how many gcp.

I play on default and there's pretty much no one that will trade you 6 gcps for your exalted. When you look at trade chat there are always people selling their exalteds for 15 chaos/5 gcp.

You may think poeex rates are wrong or unfair, but it really doesn't matter. When you're trading the only thing that matters is what the majority of people think something is worth, and the vast majority uses poeex rates. This means you're pretty much stuck to using those rates, wether you agree with them or not.

Go away

So an update

Seems like the number of people trying to sucker newer players into a massive alteration for chaos (20:1) trade has not really decreased, but many have had to stop advertising the rate; since people now will - on occasion - call them out for being a jerk. I suppose that is progress of a kind. Consequently, at least the guy trying to rip people off on an alt trade has to deal with any/all people who might want to trade at a vendor - comparable rate.