Bearings Selling for $98?

I don't think bearings ever sold for $1000 - that is normal price for blue materials specific for a given part (block, bead wire etc.), but common materials always sold for almost nothing (including the battery). Probably so that you sell them only when having 20+ and full garage, otherwise best option is to keep them.

Since the last update the prices are now screwy.  Some blue parts are still selling for $1050 but some are selling for $98.  I just checked some other prices and noticed grey parts are now selling for less than before.

Another freaking mystery to me.

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@HeretikJirka wrote:

I don't think bearings ever sold for $1000 - that is normal price for blue materials specific for a given part (block, bead wire etc.), but common materials always sold for almost nothing (including the battery). Probably so that you sell them only when having 20+ and full garage, otherwise best option is to keep them.

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And now bead wire is selling for $96!  Bearings are still $98.  All other blue parts are $1050, all green parts are $263, and grey parts are $175.

I wonder if it has something to do with how many you sell or have even collected.

Well, not all the blue materials have the same prize, the useful ones you can sell really cheap, which ones are those useful, check your inventory and you can realize that from the common ones you have plenty of them and the useful ones probably 1-2 or none at all.

For example, the battery is difficult to get and you can sell for nothing but the others purple parts you can sell for more than 1k because are easy to win.

Gray parts useful: fuse and mounts was difficult to get at the beginning when upgrade my Subaru BRZ, now have plenty of them.

Green parts useful: relay and gasket.

Blue parts useful: bearing, hose and bead wire.

Purple parts useful: battery, battery and f$-&: difficult to get battery.

Yellow parts can sell for the same amount because all of them are easy to get in Turner Trials (if you have the Viper).

Happy racing!!

My point being that at some point the selling price must change because up until this point for me all colored parts sold for the same price within their respective colors.  Now some parts within a color range are selling for much less than they originally sold for.  I am curious as to why or when or how it happens.  I am not disputing that the parts are selling cheaper, I just want to know what triggers it.

Thanks.

The reason why Bearings and some other rare materials (or pretty much a whole bunch of materials) give a cheap resale value is they're not used along with the respective coloured Conversion Kits.

For example, compare the rare materials that are used along with rare Conversion Kits and the rare materials that aren't used along with rare Conversion Kits.

Rare materials used along with Conversion Kits:

1. Block for Engine

2. Dump Pipe for Turbo

3. Pressure Plate for Gearbox

4. Bead Wire for Wheels

5. Airflow Meter for ECU

6. Regulator for Nitrous

Rare materials aren't used along with Conversion Kits:

1. Bearing

2. Hose

(Not going to list them all as this is just an example)

You'll notice the rare materials that are used along with rare Conversion Kits give a lot more resale value than rare materials that aren't used along with rare Conversion Kits.

I find this uncanny myself, but it's just the way it is...

There may be some link to how they are used and their value.

What I am saying is that I buy a lot of crates and have been selling excess parts since I started playing (~2 months) and until recently ALL parts of the same color sold for the SAME price.  I have sold virtually every part several times and it was always the same UNTIL RECENTLY.

Selling Price:

Legendary - $1750 all

Epic - $1225 all, Kits $1750

Rare - $1050 (except bearings & hoses $98), Kits $1750

Uncommon - $263 (except gasket & relay $74)

Common - $175 (except clamp, fuse, mount, spring $61)

I don't keep any uncommon or common kits so I can't price them.

I just noticed as I was compiling this list that parts that have decreased in value are parts that I have purchased a lot of in the Black Market.  I think that is the key.

I should have added to my previous post for clarity:

None of the parts that have maintained their price is offered in the Black Market and EVERY part that IS offered in the Black Market has a much lower price.

It may have always been this way and I never noticed because I used every part until recently when I got a glut of bearings that I didn't need.  That's when I noticed the price difference.

OK, I think I'm satisfied.  🙂