... fowling earing, minuet earring, potent belt....wind torque...
systematically the same screen names buying and selling to each other at deflated then inflated prices...
now the auction house is flooded (Chiv Chain/ Potent Belt) with these items because people assume that their is suddenly a demand, that ISN'T there....
everyone but these individuals lose in this. None of these items interest me, I'm not waiting around to buy them, I just noticed this activity because someone was in whitegate shouting for 70k Chiv Chain, and they were basing that on the price that was falsely created on auction house. So far this grou got 4 Chiv chains for 70k before attempting to jack the prices back up to 200-300k+ to make their profit.
The end result is that players lose. I'm not sure why attempting to prevent fellow players from losing out would be subject to criticism.