Ok, what happened here?!
Last night around 4AM EST (ok morning) I got up from bed and decided to make insect paste...I woke up to go to the bathroom and suddenly recalled that Corn region was in beastmen control, which means I can sell the insect paste at a higher rate than usual.
I turn my PC on, I turn my PS2 (mule account) on.
I log in, I log my mule in.
I send my mule in Bastok to go get me Earth Crystals, as they are usually cheaper there than in Windy, where I am. There's 26 Earth Crystals left. OK, so maybe I'd have to pay 500g instead of 300g today, no biggie. Windy's were going for 700g.
I open the Price History. SEVERAL stacks had sold for 1000g.
4 stacks after that were going from 550g - 800g. Oo; WTF?!
I bid 550g - declined.
I bid 600g - declined.
I bid 650g - declined.
Angrily, I just put up another batch of insect paste up for sale and just bought the 700g ones from Windy and proceeded to load up my mules with the paste and went back to bed.