Not only would you have to include the study of why the same items price differently on different servers but does it matter if it's PVP, PVE, RP or PVPRP? Why does leather sell on one server and not on another? Other things to think about are obvious like small eggs going up as demand goes up but are there other seasonal items that don't match a holiday.

Something that I have wondered is if people are trying to make a business out of their professions or AH selling or if most people are just trying to unload what they precieve as junk. Is the later the reason why they don't search out what the prices are and just put what an item for much less than what it is worth/selling for?

As for this being a valid academic pursuit or a way to play WoW, does it matter? I mean how many researchers get grants to research things that interst them? How many professors teach a subject including their own interests and ideas behind them? Go for it and get it as a class. I think it is a valid subject into the ideas of how even with virtual money it still seems to mimic real life. Probably because it is real people but who knows maybe this is just how money works.

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