Error Attempting to Sell

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Posted by: Anierene.5769

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This keeps happening to me and it’s annoying. I just started playing the game. I have no idea why it keeps doing this. I have like 30 items to sell and I have to sit here for 10 minutes to sell items

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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305

FlamingFoxx.1305

Is this on the trading post or to a NPC vendor?
The Trading Post does have some kind of flood limit – which is really annoying but kind of necessary.

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Posted by: Anierene.5769

Anierene.5769

It has to do with botting? lol… Wow has alot more auctions a day probably than this game and they dont have the trading limit. Regardless it wouldn’t even stop bots? It just means bots will change the times at which they sell items(I.e. 10 items a minute). It will just slow them down a little.

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Posted by: FlamingFoxx.1305

FlamingFoxx.1305

It’s a preventative measure. But yeah, it’s annoying. Especially if you’re leveling a crafting profession and want to get rid of a ton of things. Small tip – when the error message pops up just wait 5 seconds and then try and sell something else that has a different value. It may just be placebo, but it seems to work for me some of the time.

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Posted by: Naus the Gobbo.5172

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It has to do with botting? lol… Wow has alot more auctions a day probably than this game and they dont have the trading limit. Regardless it wouldn’t even stop bots? It just means bots will change the times at which they sell items(I.e. 10 items a minute). It will just slow them down a little.

WoW also allows botting.

You may not believe this, but it is nearly impossible to get banned in that game. As long as you pay your subscription you can do whatever you want.

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Posted by: Chase.8415

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It has to do with botting? lol… Wow has alot more auctions a day probably than this game and they dont have the trading limit. Regardless it wouldn’t even stop bots? It just means bots will change the times at which they sell items(I.e. 10 items a minute). It will just slow them down a little.

WoW also allows botting.

You may not believe this, but it is nearly impossible to get banned in that game. As long as you pay your subscription you can do whatever you want.

Yup, in case of Guild Wars they don’t like bots because it can destroy economy and theoretically cause any player who bots to get all items in gemstore free because they have endless amount of gold.

That’s why there is no suspension on botting, it’s first offense permanent ban where as world of warcraft’s is a 3 day suspension. You can literally od BG’s in wow and notice 3-4 people are traveling the exact same path and they do nothing about it.

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Posted by: Dean Calaway.9718

Dean Calaway.9718

This keeps happening to me and it’s annoying. I just started playing the game. I have no idea why it keeps doing this. I have like 30 items to sell and I have to sit here for 10 minutes to sell items

That might have to do with you trying to sell to the highest buyer, but by the time you press sell that order was filled and no longer available.

This should only happen with really hot items, try something common, also to matching the lowest seller and see if you keep getting the same problem.

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Posted by: danbuter.2314

danbuter.2314

It has to do with botting? lol… Wow has alot more auctions a day probably than this game and they dont have the trading limit. Regardless it wouldn’t even stop bots? It just means bots will change the times at which they sell items(I.e. 10 items a minute). It will just slow them down a little.

WoW also allows botting.

You may not believe this, but it is nearly impossible to get banned in that game. As long as you pay your subscription you can do whatever you want.

Yup, in case of Guild Wars they don’t like bots because it can destroy economy and theoretically cause any player who bots to get all items in gemstore free because they have endless amount of gold.

There’s an economy? ahaha

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Posted by: Mystic.5934

Mystic.5934

This keeps happening to me and it’s annoying. I just started playing the game. I have no idea why it keeps doing this. I have like 30 items to sell and I have to sit here for 10 minutes to sell items

That might have to do with you trying to sell to the highest buyer, but by the time you press sell that order was filled and no longer available.

This should only happen with really hot items, try something common, also to matching the lowest seller and see if you keep getting the same problem.

what you describe is NOT what OP’s issue is.
If the buy order you are looking to fill is no longer there, it will say either “Sale partially filled” or “Item no longer available”
the “Error Attempting to Sell” is when you list more than ~7 things per ~30 seconds. And once you reach it, you need to take a time out because any sale attempts will increase the wait time.
No dev has ever commented on this error, but players have speculated and debunked numerous theories, the most popular were anti-botting and server load.
anti-botting is just silly, as a bot can still list 20,160 stacks per day, while a human is limited to around 200 due to patience. I can come up with at least 3 far better anti-bot strategies off the top of my head, so I can’t believe they were that short-sighted.
server load… I just don’t buy. For starters, there is no limit on buying, and there is no way selling uses more server resources than buying. Next, TP transactions can’t be relatively server-intensive. Think about wvw zerg battles and why they cap conditions. (they have stated they cap conditions at 25 due to server load). 50 vs. 50 players, let’s say they all have 3 stacks of 25 conditions each. as far as individual things to keep track of, that’s 100 players x 3 conditions x 25 stacks each = 7500 conditions to keep track of. These are updated very frequently; more than every second but not continuously (there is rounding when you get +40% condition duration, for example). I’ll go with updated every 1/5 second. that’s 37,500 conditions updated every second. All of those conditions need to be relayed to every player and not just kept track of on the server, so 37,500 condition statuses sent to 100 players = 3,750,000 data packets per second. And that’s just one engagement on one wvw map. You would have a hard time convincing me the player base would list more than 3 million items per second (didn’t they recently say they’ve only sold like 2 million copies of the game?) as I understand it, conditions should be capped due to server resources. TP transactions can’t use the same excuse. This is all besides the point of: if I have 100 things to sell, I’m going to list 100 things. having a listing time-gate will not decrease how many things I list.
my personal favorite for ideas why this is in the game is: psychological experimentation

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Posted by: Rainmaker.7594

Rainmaker.7594

I’ve had this error many times, and recently I’ve figured out that it seems if you take a few steps forward (you can leave the trading window open), the error stops popping up. Before I figured that out, I was just closing and re-opening the tp window, which would usually only allow 1 or 2 more sales before the error come back.

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Posted by: Behellagh.1468

Behellagh.1468

There is a difference between putting in a buy order and a sell order. The buy order is simply deducting coin from a player’s account while a buy order removes an “item” from the player character’s inventory. There is a difference in “cost” between the two operations.

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Posted by: Brewergamer.8357

Brewergamer.8357

This keeps happening to me and it’s annoying. I just started playing the game. I have no idea why it keeps doing this. I have like 30 items to sell and I have to sit here for 10 minutes to sell items

I believe Arenanet replied to a thread like this at release saying there’s an internal system that blocks you from selling a massive number of items so the trade post doesn’t lagg (at release the trade post would crash from sheer number of sales so they implemented this apparently) but they never did add a correct message so people know what’s going on.

All you have to do and what I do is when it says that just wait 5 minutes or so and you can sell a bunch more items, it’s kind of like a cooldown they have on it I think. Where you can only list a certain number of items in a certain period of time.