In Diablo III’s buy and sell the items you find in-game for actual money. Blizzard doesn’t sell items directly, they just take a cut of sales -- all pricing is done by players, who then sell to each other. Naturally, everyone wants to make money and the results are, at least for now, some very expensive items.

We searched the auction house for a full set of mostly Legendary items for a level 60 Barbarian. Because of space constraints we couldn’t show all the statistical affixes, but the items and prices listed in the image below were all pulled from the live auction house. We didn’t just pick the most outrageously priced items, either. This type of pricing is very common amongst viable choices for end-level players.You don’t have to use the real money auction house - you could just switch to the virtual currency version - but similar items there also tend to be overpriced. Is anyone actually buying this stuff?So you could do that, or…