In a 600 population server where pretty much half are afk, you are left with so called "traders" who sell high and buy low. Maybe there's like the same 20 people spamming the Broadcast and manipulating the prices.
What I don't understand is why farmable things like seeds, cspeeds etc. keep dropping and donation items just inflate like hell.
As a newbie who mostly farm seed tix I'm very disheartened. You'll say "to wait" but I'm sitting on my 1000 seed tix for a week now waiting for at least 6:1 deal. So yeah, the market for newbies is dead at least. For the highrollers life just goes on.