This is the worst I have seen it this league with people posting items (even small items) for 0.2ex -> 0.9ex instead of chaos equivalents. Fractional exalts are typical of items 1ex+, but the only reason people are doing it now is to take advantage of GGGs poor implementation of currency equivalency. If you are going to call something an "equivalent" it should be in the same ballpark.. The ratio has not even been close all league and people are being taken advantage of that don't know you need to change the search from "chaos orb equivalent" to "chaos orb" if people are listing for exalt fractions.
This is NOT a matter of it being "slightly lagged behind". The ratio is so far off, 0.8ex will show up in a "chaos orb equivalent" search before 90c will. 0.8ex is over 110c... so people are often paying 20-30% more for items.
Before "hurr durr everyone knows this just search both": I know that players are getting taken advantage of because I've been one of the people (albeit not maliciously..) on the selling end. I have been posting items in exalt equivalents because they WON'T SHOW UP until you scroll WAY down for people who are searching "chaos orb equivalent". Things fly off the shelves for .5/.6 exalts (73c+)when if they searched "chaos orb" they could have bought the item for ~50-60c.
If third party sites can accurately maintain these ratios using basic methods then surely GGG can do it too. I feel like they try to explain things away as being too complicated and then some random dude goes and writes an app/website/whatever and implements it. I'm not trying to bash on ggg here, but this is not only annoying, but more than ever it is now problematic for players.
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