Guild Wars 2

They need to make it so that custom offers that are impossible to fill cannot be posted on the Trade Post.

Example 1: Someone posting a custom offer for something below merchant/vendor value. As a seller it is impossible to fill this order, as the Trade Post says in big red letters “Unit price must be higher than vendor value.”

Example 2: Posting a custom offer of 1 copper. The Trade Post doesn’t allow you to make zero profit – i.e. when the listing fee is the same as the selling price. Therefore, it is impossible to fill a custom offer of 1c for any item.

It would be great if Anet would prevent this garbage from ever reaching the TP.

Already asked already answerd:
- you can’t create new ones (neither order/ listenings/…)
- the old ones are still there, because: link

the problem right now is the old custom orders below vendor value are still in the system.
they are still the lowest offer so no new offers can be put in that can be fullfilled by sellers in the future.
It would be great if these orders can be removed (surely the money credited to the ppl who would have placed the orders)

for most things, these can’t be placed anymore. a simpler solution is to just return all of these unfillable offers to the people who posted them.
that said, you can still place sell orders for Leeks below the merchant price

cool, i didn’t know they’d already implemented it.. thx for the info

EDIT: so basically, the official reply is “it would be irresponsible to do this” for the ones that are still up there.

I think they just don’t see it as a big problem, so they don’t bother themselves with it. like typos and misleading tooltips, it doesn’t affect the actual gameplay, just our dealing with it and having to know to ignore it.

Doesn’t really affect anything, probably gonna be there a while.

If something vends for 7c and there’s 200,000 of the item sitting there at 8c waiting to be bought…the fact that people have buys in for 3c doesn’t affect anything. The lowest one can obtain that item for from the TP is 8c (1c above vendor).

If all the 3c bids were removed, those 200,000 items are still sitting there at 8c. Even if they weren’t, 8c would be the lowest you could bid (1c above vendor).

Minion of Vey.4398:

Doesn’t really affect anything, probably gonna be there a while.

If something vends for 7c and there’s 200,000 of the item sitting there at 8c waiting to be bought…the fact that people have buys in for 3c doesn’t affect anything. The lowest one can obtain that item for from the TP is 8c (1c above vendor).

If all the 3c bids were removed, those 200,000 items are still sitting there at 8c. Even if they weren’t, 8c would be the lowest you could bid (1c above vendor).

I dont think i agree. currently the 3c ones cannot be fulfilled and the 8c one legally can but will never be so technically for any item that currently has a buy order below the vendor price no buy orders can be put which will get fulfilled.
correct me if im wrong about it….

Zellax.7821:

I dont think i agree. currently the 3c ones cannot be fulfilled and the 8c one legally can but will never be so technically for any item that currently has a buy order below the vendor price no buy orders can be put which will get fulfilled.
correct me if im wrong about it….

Unfillable buy orders have no effect on the ability to make new buy orders.

In this case you cannot make a new buy order because the minimum buy order is vendor + 1c, or 8c. There are sell orders available for 8c so any buy orders you make would be instantly filled from sell orders at the same price. When the lowest sell order is 9c then you can place a buy order for 8c.

This will still happen if all unfillable buy orders are cancelled. Their presence/absence is irrelevant.

tolunart.2095:

Zellax.7821:

I dont think i agree. currently the 3c ones cannot be fulfilled and the 8c one legally can but will never be so technically for any item that currently has a buy order below the vendor price no buy orders can be put which will get fulfilled.
correct me if im wrong about it….

Unfillable buy orders have no effect on the ability to make new buy orders.

In this case you cannot make a new buy order because the minimum buy order is vendor + 1c, or 8c. There are sell orders available for 8c so any buy orders you make would be instantly filled from sell orders at the same price. When the lowest sell order is 9c then you can place a buy order for 8c.

This will still happen if all unfillable buy orders are cancelled. Their presence/absence is irrelevant.

Correct. Those old unfillable buy orders don’t do anything, other than clutter up the page.