Why can't I sell these?

The_One

If they're that high in value let me get something for them.
I don't use them.

Comments

Furrymoosen

That desperate to get 7 gold?

MrSakuragi

You couldve held onto the comp for the next raid week

GroundedWisdom

If you don't use them, then you weren't affected.

Mixtapevol02

Even if you sold them, you would still be 34,246 short of 16mil gold.

DNA3000

The short answer is you can’t sell those and many other items because in the past players would “accidentally” sell them and then open support tickets begging to get them back. Their finger slipped, their dog tapped the phone, their kid got into the game. The problem is even saying “no” takes time, and Kabam decided they did not want to deal with those anymore. The benefit of being allowed to sell them was vastly outweighed by the cost of allowing players to sell them.

The things we can sell are the things that a) make sense to sell and b) players wouldn’t care all that much if they sold accidentally. This includes, by the way, champions. We can’t sell those anymore in large part because players would sell them, then complain if content came around that required those champs. In fact, a ridiculous but all too common complaint on the forums back in those days was “if Kabam allows me to sell them, that means they are saying we will never need them. Kabam cannot punish me for doing something they allowed me to do.”

That’s the main reason. There is a secondary reason (there are always multiple reasons why anything happens) that involves what to allow something to be sold for. If you allow something that is very valuable in the game to be sold, the perception is it has to have high resale value. If the devs don’t want to allow players to sell those things for too high a value, setting the sale value low can create complaints about how “stingy” Kabam is when it comes to selling those items. Simply disallowing the sale in the first place eliminates those complaints.