I'm not arguing about the logic here, it's just that before the patch merc prices were around 3000 per head. It seems strange that the sudden increase to 8000 would be a mere coincidence or a spike in mercenary interest. It appears that something has happened after the patch and I was wondering if I was the only one experiencing the inflation.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Prices should reflect the value of the merc not whether someone bought it recently. There aren't that many options to begin with and many higher tier mercs suck. Like yeah she can use BG but she wears a leather jacket and dies really easily, totally not worth the caps.
The prices don't reflect if someone bought it recently as such, they reflect a general region where the collective "players" consider the mercs to be worth the money.