Moat Carp price lately: inflation or brief spike?Follow

After a couple of months of steady 4,000 prices for stacks of Moat Carps, the price this week has consistently been up at 4,500. I'm seeking input / speculation / blather on, "will it last?"

My interest is as a buyer, not a seller: I buy Moat Carps to work towards completing my Lu Shang's quest (of course; there's very little other reason for buying them).

Now, I know that in the past on this server, MCarps have gone through price plateaus of 4,500 or even 5,000 for weeks ... but I somehow view the 4,000 price, which until this week was steady for a couple of months, as the "default."

Will the price keep going up, on the theory perhaps that "it's just catching up with the inflation we're seeing in so many other areas of the market"? Or do you suspect that, as has happened repeatedly in the past, increases in supply (and decreases in individual buyers' demand, once a given buy acquires his/her Lu rod and becomes a SELLER) will drive the price back down?

No one can say for sure, of course, but I'm nonetheless interested in shooting the bull about it ^^