Guild Wars 2

At least 1/3 or 1/2 the items (non craft supplies) I try to sell on the trading house have lowest sell price returning lower than the vendor price. I am still at level 40 so not selling level 80 items – it might be different later on.

Some of these items have 2000 for sale from 1975 sellers. How will these EVER fall off of the trading house? Never. They are permanently unsellable items – for those of us who want to maximize our earnings. Sure you still can make money if someone buys it but it won’t be as much as the guaranteed vendor price.

There must be a huge number of people who have no idea how the trading house works and just click to sell at lowest sell price. Or maybe too lazy, too much to battle, etc to get to a vendor when their pack is full.

Since some of those people don’t even play the game anymore the only way I can think of fixing this part of the economy is by expiring the sale at a certain point. Eventually, hopefully, no more will click to sell at that price and a decent price with some profit can become the lowest price.

The buy order price is always lower than that so there isn’t profit to be gained there either. This vendor+1c buy order price this has been written about a lot in the forums.

The most annoying thing about this is you can’t even see who the seller is to write them a note and tell them. I am sure some are aware of what they are doing but I know others have to be unsure of how the trading house works and do this item after item.

If the highest price someone has a bid for an item is less than what the TP will allow a seller to post for, it’s exactly the same if there isn’t any interest in the first place. So as a seller you should realize that there simply isn’t any legitimate interest in buying that item, so salvage it, roll the dice at the MF or sell it to a merchant.

Not everything is flippable in this game’s economy (buy low and repost high). Sometimes it’s simply better to sell them off to a merchant, especially “fine” (blue) items as they tend to salvage into basics materials that are worth less than what you could sell to a merchant for.

Yes, it’s silly to allow bids to be made at prices bellow what the TP would allow sellers to post at. And I agree that these low bids should be flushed.

I only check greens or yellows to sell. The rest I vendor. I am someone who replaces all my stuff every 5 or so levels – prices are low enough to do this. I think there are others that do it too since I usually sell all my greens and yellows. I think I have 1 item there that hasn’t sold.

It is silly to allow both buy orders and sell orders to be lower than vendor price. I know they disallowed the trading of items at listed price lower than vendor price but I think that fooled some people into not figuring in the listing fee and trading house commission. It would be just as easy to figure that in and put up a warning.

I also think the way they put in listing fee and profit on the screen is confusing. Some people might not do the math and think the profit is the sale minus listing fee and that is what they will get. There is plenty of room on the screen to put “non-refundable listing fee”, “trading house commission on sale”, “estimated return on sale”.

Would be useful if sell orders that’ve been up for more than x amount of time, say 1 month, would drop off back into the pickup tab. This would portray alot more accurate supply imo.

Another solution would be to change the 1000+ available to 10k or 100k. This is vital information for alot of markets and now it’s just a big guess for people not familiar with gw2spidy etc. The second it hits 999 the price shoots through the roof because stuff’s rarity has been shown and everyone wants to get in on it last minute.

You can’t place buy orders for less than the vendor price. At release, and for a month or two after, it was possible to place buy orders for less than vendor price. That has since been changed. Any buy orders you see like that were placed before the fix. Anet has mentioned looking at finding a way to flush all those orders that can’t be filled, but I can’t imagine it’s a very high priority right now.