Base Price For Markets?

[Hiddenmonkey10]

I was toying with the idea of a base low price for some items in the market. This is due to the fact that people are grossly gouging prices for items that generally sell well and before the markets were removed, sold for much higher prices. An example of this is diamonds, when the old markets were in check, the lowest diamond price that I saw, was .40s. Now, I look around and people are selling diamonds for .29s or less. Prices this low will only succeed in sinking the economy in my opinion. This is even worse for people that took out loans in order to buy their stalls, since they not only have to make back the money for the loan, but also make enough money to keep their stalls active. So, I'm wondering if I'm the only person that is upset about the gouges in prices or if there are others in the same boat I am?

 

[J3r3my]

But what do you propose? There is no feasible method of forcing the prices to increase, other than limiting the supply of the items themselves.

The market forces are in play here, people want to sell and therefore lower their prices in order to gain an advantage over the competitors.