Gotta agree with Hraes here. It isn't called scam unless they actually lie and state that the pet stats are permanent. And if they call you a liar when you're trying to warn them, let them be then. Let them waste their money and let them learn their lesson the hard way.
All they're doing is "overpricing" the items. And you can't also fully blame the overpricers either, because they didn't put a gun to the buyer's head to make them buy their items. It's the buyer's own fault. You can't say that by farming the pets back in the event then overpricing it today is called controlling the market. Unless these people happened to have bought EVERY SINGLE pet in fiesta THEN selling them at a high price, then maybe that's controlling the market. Point is, you can't control the market unless you're the only one with the items. If everyone else has a fair share of their own pets, I don't see how they can affect the markets that easily.
But I'm pretty sure be it high levels or low levels, people would have got their pets if they wanted them (provided they were present during the event). Besides, ever since the level limit was put on the FBZs and the chest spawn rate was increased, I don't think there would be many that would have really missed out. I got 4 pets myself on Epith on my little 20 archer. Wasn't hard. =/
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