... um... define "cheap".
If you think about it, the prices at the AH are alot like the price of stocks, they go up, they go down, they get way overpriced, they get undercut by someone trying to make fast money. The best items will aways cost alot, and the things people use everyday are priced so the person making it doesn't lose money. If your looking to join a server, the last thing you should be joining it for is the price of items, not worth saving a few gil if the people arn't someone you can play with. But from what I've seen on posts on here and other sites is that you can't trust what the price of something was, cause someone is always looking to jack it up 200% when there is only one left.
just my thought on the matter.
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