Guild Wars 2

Right now people will aggressively put in buy orders. For example:

Player 1 Buy order’s a rune for 5g
Player 2 Buy order’s same rune for 5g and 1c
Player 1 Removes old buy order, puts in new buy order for 5g and 2c.
Player 2 notices, removes old order, and puts in 5g and 3c.

This is very tedious and annoying. Players just camping TP overcutting your order by 1c, especially when you want 100 and he wants like 3. People dont lose any money because its free to buy order. So they wont lose anything unlike selling.

Is anything being done to address this without reading all the notes? and in plain english?

When you think about it, it’s your fault for putting in a Buy Order for too low. If you don’t want to compete with me other players for cheap items, then bid higher, or just buy whatever’s on the lowest Sell list.

The tediousness of defending buy orders is baked into the price; buy orders are much cheaper than they would be than if placing orders were not.

It does reward the players willing to put the most time into watching their orders like a hawk, but they also value their time for doing so the lowest, so it’s still an efficient, ikittenward, outcome.

I wouldn’t say the OP is at fault per se. Instead, I’d argue they are taking a risk:

• Buy an item at lowest sale price: no risk, costs more.
• Offer just above highest buy offer: save 20-40% (or more!); takes longer to fulfill, especially if others want the same item.
• Anything in between: balance the risk of spending more time vs spending more money.

Thus, like anyone else trading in a free market, only you, OP, can prevent forest fires overbidding or undercutting.

if you want a 100 and they only want 3..maybe wait instead? you know patience.

if I only want 1 or 2 and see a bit of 100 or something high like that. I will ALWAYS over bid.
I don’t want to wait for your 100 order to fill before I might get my items.

If on the other hand though, I want a 100, and I see someone bidding for 1 or 2, I tend to underbid them or price at the same, and wait ..

The only reason why someone would want 100 “runes” or anything else is so they can attempt to flip it for a profit. Because your motive is to make money, you thereby give up all rights to complain when competition in the same market heats up. You walked into the kitchen knowing it was hot, so to speak.

Or upconvert in the MF for profit. It was a viable market once.

Taygus.4571:

if you want a 100 and they only want 3..maybe wait instead? you know patience.

if I only want 1 or 2 and see a bit of 100 or something high like that. I will ALWAYS over bid.
I don’t want to wait for your 100 order to fill before I might get my items.

If on the other hand though, I want a 100, and I see someone bidding for 1 or 2, I tend to underbid them or price at the same, and wait ..

This is basically how I do it, although I may be mean if I see a 100+ listing and I want 100+ items. Also, if I don’t care when I get it, I’ll just list lower than the highest.

I bought a Monocle the other day since I’ve wanted it when it was released. Listed about 5g below highest bid and a few days later I got it.

Behellagh.1468:

Or upconvert in the MF for profit. It was a viable market once.

Still is, depending on how much you value your SP.

JJBigs.8456:

Right now people will aggressively put in buy orders. For example:

Player 1 Buy order’s a rune for 5g
Player 2 Buy order’s same rune for 5g and 1c
Player 1 Removes old buy order, puts in new buy order for 5g and 2c.
Player 2 notices, removes old order, and puts in 5g and 3c.

This is very tedious and annoying. Players just camping TP overcutting your order by 1c, especially when you want 100 and he wants like 3. People dont lose any money because its free to buy order. So they wont lose anything unlike selling.

Is anything being done to address this without reading all the notes? and in plain english?

I thought stuff like this was already happening? I don’t see that there will be much of a difference with the new TP UI. Everything will still work the same, just you’ll be able to navigate better.

pdavis.8031:

JJBigs.8456:

Right now people will aggressively put in buy orders. For example:

Player 1 Buy order’s a rune for 5g
Player 2 Buy order’s same rune for 5g and 1c
Player 1 Removes old buy order, puts in new buy order for 5g and 2c.
Player 2 notices, removes old order, and puts in 5g and 3c.

This is very tedious and annoying. Players just camping TP overcutting your order by 1c, especially when you want 100 and he wants like 3. People dont lose any money because its free to buy order. So they wont lose anything unlike selling.

Is anything being done to address this without reading all the notes? and in plain english?

I thought stuff like this was already happening? I don’t see that there will be much of a difference with the new TP UI. Everything will still work the same, just you’ll be able to navigate better.

That was the OP’s request: they want “something to be done” about this; they don’t want to get into 1c under-/overcut wars.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

pdavis.8031:

JJBigs.8456:

Right now people will aggressively put in buy orders. For example:

Player 1 Buy order’s a rune for 5g
Player 2 Buy order’s same rune for 5g and 1c
Player 1 Removes old buy order, puts in new buy order for 5g and 2c.
Player 2 notices, removes old order, and puts in 5g and 3c.

This is very tedious and annoying. Players just camping TP overcutting your order by 1c, especially when you want 100 and he wants like 3. People dont lose any money because its free to buy order. So they wont lose anything unlike selling.

Is anything being done to address this without reading all the notes? and in plain english?

I thought stuff like this was already happening? I don’t see that there will be much of a difference with the new TP UI. Everything will still work the same, just you’ll be able to navigate better.

That was the OP’s request: they want “something to be done” about this; they don’t want to get into 1c under-/overcut wars.

I don’t see how they could actually do anthing about it. Unless they removed the option to place a custom buy, or sell order. If that happens then no longer becomes a player driven economy, a far less effective gold sink, and might as well be an NPC vendor. Flipping will no longer be a thing, and everthing great and awesome about the TP would cease to exist.