“Good men don’t need rules… Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.”
Below Merchant Value for Custom Offers in TP
It was a known bug that was fixed a few weeks ago that allowed bids below vendor value just those offeres have not been removed by the buyer or ANET yet.
Guild Leader for [Myth] Darkhaven
While it would be nice if these offers had been removed by now, they shouldn’t really be throwing off the metrics of any item that actually has some demand.
While it would be nice if these offers had been removed by now, they shouldn’t really be throwing off the metrics of any item that actually has some demand.
From what I’ve seen on the websites that actually track the asking prices and the requested prices, it actually does throw off the metrics. If there’s an item that goes for more than an hour or so with a requested price of 1 copper, then it bottoms out that graph for the day and could artificially reduce the price of an object. But it’s still highly annoying to see people trying to undercut Merchant’s Prices because you lose a few copper to sell to someone asking for 1 copper above the Merchant’s Price. While I understand that people should be more cognizant of what they are doing when selling on the TP… it does kinda rob the ones who don’t recognize that even selling at Merchant’s Prices, will make them lose money.
It’s just a thought however.
“Good men don’t need rules… Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.”
From what I’ve seen on the websites that actually track the asking prices and the requested prices, it actually does throw off the metrics. If there’s an item that goes for more than an hour or so with a requested price of 1 copper, then it bottoms out that graph for the day and could artificially reduce the price of an object. But it’s still highly annoying to see people trying to undercut Merchant’s Prices because you lose a few copper to sell to someone asking for 1 copper above the Merchant’s Price. While I understand that people should be more cognizant of what they are doing when selling on the TP… it does kinda rob the ones who don’t recognize that even selling at Merchant’s Prices, will make them lose money.
It’s just a thought however.
The point I was making was that if those items had any reasonable demand for them, then the offers below vendor price would be buried by valid orders. In the situation you cite, the graphs would still bottom out without those invalid orders, because there would be no buy orders listed for that item.