D: I'm the spawn of Satan!
So. I had been hoarding up my heavy metal plates for an almace for my blu. It wasn't anywhere close to the level to need them yet, but I was just saving up all the ones I got for later. And then I left the game.
Well, I came back a few months later and realized that I could get a better weapon for probably less gil than almace. So I decided to sell off my stash of HMP. I checked the AH bazaar function, saw that they were going from 150-200k apiece, and set all of mine (about 80 of them) to 200k because I wasn't concerned about selling them off immediately.
Well. I sold off one big chunk of them, which dropped my stock down to 31. Then after a few more days, I was like "Well... this is a lot of gil to ask for people who are already paying WAY too much for those weapons." So I dropped the price down to 150k, sold the rest of them almost immediately, wham bam thank you ma'am.
That was yesterday morning and I'm still getting tells from people wanting to buy them, even for 200k, because apparently the stock of them is just gone. D:
I broke the market. I hoarded them to begin with, then I sold them overpriced which seems to have helped a few other folks raise their own prices, then I lowered the price and dumped them, and now four separate people have sent me tells asking if they can buy them. I'm so sorry. ;;