Do Kumos quests ask everybody for the same items? Is this why we are seeing common items at overinflated prices? If it is is something being done? If it isn't then what is going wrong?

It might be the quests in some cases, but in the case of this particular item, I believe it's users buying them up and deliberately inflating the price. This has happened with items bought from my shop for normal prices and then put in these same other shops for the ~50mil prices, same as the bongos.

I must admit this is an extreme example. Mostly I see things inflated to around the 40k mark.

[edit] here's a better example:

Shop Search results for Murders 101 Shop Price Amount Buy User Shops //// 58,000 sP 3 //// 58,000 sP 1 //// 58,000 sP 1

also might have to do with the fact some common/normal rarity items just are not restocking at all in the main shops.

I noticed this too when doing quests on Kumos. For example:

is 5,000,000 sP in user shops and there is only one in stock. is at 279,898 sP.

Don't remember any others but there were quite a few.

No Quentin you may not have a because despite this being common there is only one for sale and it is 1,171,000 sP

When is this going to get fixed?

There are at least three issues leading to this problem.

1. Quest givers are repeatedly asking for the same items.
2. Users notice the above and buy up the items to profit.
3. Many items are not restocking in the main shops.