Everyone and their brother is buying these jewels up in bulk. It would definitely give people a reason to guard, at least in the near term. I don't see a downside to it.
Ya blues can, but the idea would be to place it and buy all the vendors up to a certain point where it is no longer cost effective. Jewels are a pretty hot commodity right now.
Just a quick question though. can't the finance minister already adjust rates on all vendors in town including jewelers making them cheap?
I'm pretty sure when the taxes are raised or lowered they do affect the jewelers. For some reason i remember this happening.
Taxes do not affect anything that is sold in bundles of 500. The ability to change those prices was removed when they modified the vending system. They should not add in Faction jewelers and they should remove the other resource vendors. It was barely a good idea when factions was first introduced and today it is just used as an exploit to farm resources.