So as with much of the Diablo 3 community, I was looking forward to finally playing with the latest 1.08 patch. Finally being able to farm with a group as an archon wizard. As with any patch though, I anticipated a slight change in the auction house pricing as there is a rush of players coming back from not playing for weeks. I get home, and hear about people making tonnes of gold selling overpriced gems. I bought 15 or so to sell right away, but after I sold my lot of 15 gems, I noticed that the price on the auction house continue to skyrocket.
So we began to speculate on teamspeak, as it did not make any sense. Both the gem prices on gold auction house and real money auction house began to go up and down, until someone found out that there was a massive gold dupe method found within the game. So a lot of people were duping their gold, and then buying up all the gems, to cash out, or even worst, flip back through the real money auction house, for further duping.