When I came onto the forums, I seen a few people sell 100 TBT for 5-8m IGB, and immediately within a month or so, it jumped to 8-10m around the end of the year. Now it's up to 20m. I myself never had many IGB in the first place due to lack of beetle hunting (I'd rather hunt for rare island items, do tours with people, and sell them on here), but seriously. 20 freaking million Bells for 100 TBT!? How are new people going to afford these nutty prices, especially if they just joined the forums!? :l And then, there's also the people who've either been lucky enough to sell enough stuff or art, or lucky enough to buy lots of collectibles and "think" they can sell them for a little more than everyone else to stay ahead and get the dough. Seriously, if anyone expects or even wants to change this insanity, we need to set limits. Mods won't, but it doesn't mean we can't be mature enough to set our own limits for us posters/forum users and stick with them. Yeah, you probably won't wanna give up your Pokeball collectible for 100 TBT; those few who wanna be the richest will more than likely not wanna change their prices, but hopefully if enough people start to think before they set a price or hack/cheat/glitch stuff, TBT forums will be better off.
Also, you gotta think about how this is affecting the AC:NL future. Sure, soon the game will get boring by everyone and we'll all leave and forget about it, true. But it could last a lot longer and be more enjoyable if we would just start to think before we do. And the saddest thing, is I've seen so many threads all over the forum just like this. They say they're gonna make a group or try to do something about the inflation, but in the end no one does. Everyone goes back to selling their japanese letter/house collectibles for k's of TBT the next day. Really? If you want this to change, then we need to do something.
An idea (this is just an idea), is a group of people all pitch in, and go beetle hunting together, saving as much IGB as they can. Then, they shove all the IGB together and sell it on the TBT Marketplace at a slightly lower rate (like 1-5m lower than average), and once it's sold, split the TBT among the helpers who helped gather IGB. It basically means little work for everyone who participated, ligit Bells going on market (a bonus), and if the rate is just ever so slightly lower, it'll be sold. Every couple times you sell the IBG, lower the price a tad. It's little work if a huge group of people do it, so selling a lot won't be an issue. Within a month, I bet the average prices go down.
But like I said, no one wants to actually do something about this. This post will probably get read, and forgotten the next day. I bet nothing happens and the prices skyrocket and stays at like 30-50m per 100 TBT by the end of the year.
