Originally Posted by
HortonsWho
The event friaries are actually cheaper than the regular gem merchant friaries (1592 gems to buy soccer balls for the event friary, compared to 2,450 gems in the regular merchant shop). However if you were buying and selling for soccer balls in the trade office, prices would very from server to server, and you would probably end up paying more to obtain a friary, than what they normally might trade for in the market. But that's an economic environment created by the players, not by the game developers.