Auction house MM

I do believe that players are willing to spend tokens on 89 OVR elites priced low especially if the elites are in an in demand program like ToTD. In five weeks I have sold just one 89 OVR Totd player for 16k. The mode asking price for that player was 120k, which is of course way too much so besides the point. My point is that based on my experiences last season and this season, high OVR elites DO sell when priced to do so. But I have had 89 OVR in-demand elites on auction for just 750 tokens for 72 hours at a time and not one sale. And the fact that only one of the many 89 OVR ToTD elites I put up for sale at super-low prices, as low as 1000 tokens, sold, for 16k, strikes me as quite odd indeed. It is as though most elite auction posts aren't being posted for other players to bid on. That would explain quite a few peculiar auction phenomenon that my MM friends have observed this season. Last season, zero issues selling players all season long. This season, starting about five weeks ago, a major wave of unsellable elites. Obviously something is afoot. The question is, is it truly a totally player-demand driven market, or is there a middle-person (aka bot) involved? The first is what I'd prefer to believe. The 2nd is what several unusual or statistically significant AH phenomenon suggests. My theory is that the AH is market-driven but in a very controlled way and for over a month one control seems to have been making elites unsellable at least 90% of the time if not more. A related issue is, why do a vast majority of players, based on what we are shown, ask over 100k for elite players when a diamond player can be purchased for the same price? Are all the players posting elite players for 130k just out of their minds? Because a quick glance at the AH reveals that elite players are posted for ridiculous amounts that no one would ever possibly pay. This begs the question as to WHY a majority of elites are posted for over 100k. And one possible answer is that they aren't being posted for those pie-in-the-sky amounts but rather, an AH bot is showing posts of players at greatly inflated prices for nefarious goals including trying to drive the price of elites up artificially so that none will be sold. But it doesn't matter bcuz you can post an 89 OVR elite for just 150 tokens and that's not going to sell either. So it sure seems like there is a power interfering with normal buying and selling of elites. The bottom line is that on five weeks I have sold just one elite player for 16k despite endlessly posting 89 OVR elites for sale at either greatly reduced or giveaway prices with zero sales so how did that one elite sell when the same player for just 750 tokens never sold? So many questionable phenomenon but no clear evidence as to how and why, just the EA claim that it's all demand driven versus player testimonials indicating that there is an intermediary at work in the AH and I would love to know the actual truth. 

I would like to add that as an experiment I placed an 89 OVR elite for sale at auction for just 250 tokens for 72 hours several times and not even a bid much less a sale. Why would someone not buy an 89 elite for 250 tokens when it's worth it just to exchange for player training points? As stated previously, in five weeks of trying to sell even ToTD elites at very low prices I sold just one for 16k which was about 1/9 the mean asking price for the same player. I have placed 89 OVR ToTD elites up for sale in the AH for giveaway prices of just a few hundred tokens and not sold  a single one despite how very in-demand they are right now. These experiences in not being able to sell elites at any price beginning about six weeks ago plus the testimony of other players I've read online or heard in-person really seem to indicate a problem with the AH and I would sure love to hear feedback from other players or from an EA representative regarding the ongoing phenomenon of unsellable elites. There are many anomalies that don't make sense, like seeing elites proffered at ridiculously high prices, like 160k. When I look up an elite player on AH I see scores of players all selling the same player for pretty much the exact same ridiculously high price, always 100k tokens or much more. These posts can't possible all be real because how can that many players be so put of touch with pricing? Any player with even a few weeks experience knows darn well that an 86 ovr elite is not going to sell for 110k tokens yet search for elites and you will find 100s of not 1000s of listing of high over elites from 100l to 160k.I know from experimenting with posting elites at those prices for 72 hours at a time that they aren't selling and the AH bot sure isn't buying them. Why then are there sooo many posts from players asking 150000 tokens for elite players? Surely there are not that many foolish players. Why then are almost ALL elites listed on the AH priced so ridiculously high? Is it possible that these posts are not real but are instead created by the AH bot to ensure that no one will price their elites at reasonable prices? Or worse, are these posts created and posted instead of the actual posts to prevent any or very few elites from selling? I would sure appreciate a prompt informative reply from someone in the know who can explain to me why elites for sale at 150l tokens are the norm rather than the exception. The way things are going just do not make sense at all and again, am informative reply to my queries here sure would be appreciated bcuz the longer this goes on the more convinced I am that, as many experienced players have claimed in posts on EA Help, Reddit and elsewhere, the AH is a totally rigged system only partially driven by player demand and the rest is artificial BS. Thoughts? 

Watch this video - https://youtu.be/zABkBP5kZfk

And fix the auction house  @EA_Blueberry 

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Hey he gave me a shoutout! 🙂 

A lot of great points in that video, watched it all the way through. I don't know about getting rid of Power but I have seen some confusion around it, so maybe there can be more clarification around that or enhancements. Fully agree with Draft Champions though, love it and hope it stays around as a base feature. I'll continue to let the Madden Mobile team know what conversations are taking place here on the forums. I've seen feedback about the auction house throughout the year on how difficult it can be to sell items and the content creator in that video somewhat identified why with some players like Flashbacks becoming obsolete. Because of the pace of these programs coming out, a 97 OVR player isn't bad statistically, however if a 98 OVR player has much more Power it makes more sense for players to go after newer program players to achieve the highest tier items which results in some lack of demand for those older program items on the auction house. I hope that brings more clarity to the situation, but I do hear all of your concerns around how this is impacting your ability to sell items on the AH. Feedback diligently noted!

Appreciate your thoughtful comments. Would like to point out the bizarre phenomenon of the AH overflowing with mass postings of elite players priced ridiculously high. Search virtually any elite and you will be met with walls of the same player priced at ludicrously high amounts. Even newbies but especially experienced players reviewing  the endless listing of elites priced at well over 100k tokens is going to suspect something fishy is going on because no actual player interested in selling his or her elite is going to price it at, say, 120k, yet that is the norm rather than the exception. This obvious inflation of elite players coupled with elites becoming virtually unsellable about six weeks ago and the recent admission of an EA representative that, indeed, the AH is assisted (by a bot, app, program) leads one to the conclusion that team MM decided to make elites no longer buy able or sellable on the AH. In six weeks I have sold just one 89 OVR ToTD elite at a shockingly high 16k. Just one player out of scores I put up for sale at a variety of prices from waaay less than the obviously intentionally inflated prices to rock-bottom giveaway prices and as I mentioned, sold just one. I even placed 89 OVR elites for sale at just 250 tokens, a bargain for those wishing to increase player/team power, for 72 hours at a time several times and not one of them sold. But the real proof of automated lake postings at hyper-inflated prices are the endless listings of the same elite at insanely high prices. Search virtually any elite and you will be met with scores if not 100s of postings of that same player for an insanely high price that varies by only 10 to 20%. Clearly no real player expects to receive 135k for an elite player. Maybe a few megalomaniacs or others with unreasonable expectations, but for 100k+ token elites to become the new norm and en masse to the point where you rarely if ever even see a realistic price for an elite couples with the phenomenon of virtually unsellable elites even at nominal prices clearly indicates that team MM does not want us freely buying or selling elites. Aside from the obvious motivation of greed, are there are other reasons for this blatant price manipulation and taking-away of the ability to freely buy and sell elites?