Guild Wars 2

Basic vendor items such as Dull Hatchet or Dull Knife are un-salvageable and un-flushable in the Mystic Toilet.

Buy these from the armor or weapon vendor, put up with a lower-than-the-salvageable-versions price on the TP and simultaneously post a buy order for 1/3 or even lower that.

This has been going on since day 1 and has been posted numerous times, so it’s not an exploit.

When users buy these unaware they are useless for the two purposes listed above, they will turn them right back around to recoup at LEAST a part of their loss.

Caveat emptor. Except in some cases, the unsalvageables have the exact same name as salvageables, so bait and switch works nicely.

NOW maybe some attention to these can be paid – I have posted twice in the past year about this problem and there are numerous other posts all over the official forums about it. My mistake was addressing it as a problem – maybe addressing it as a trading strategy will get it fixed?

These items should be un-TP-able OR labelled in such a way the consumer knows what (s)he is buying.

I support this request. No one in their right mind would buy white armor on the TP for any other reason than to salvage it. It’s inconceivable why this has not been fixed yet. It invites exploitation of the unaware. And everybody is unaware at first. You can only learn about this through falling in someone’s trap.

Your only hope is that this post makes it so prevalent that Anet must do something about it.

I’ll have to try this. Thanks for the tip.

Till then, the items mentioned should be of basic rarity and a level divisible by five.

Lord Kuru.3685:

Your only hope is that this post makes it so prevalent that Anet must do something about it.

I tried using a subject line that would be controversial – thought maybe that’d get some attention.

Them copper profits.

TPvP, once a person makes the mistake once they’ll not make it again.

Bumping for great justice. I discovered this on Thursday, much to my detriment.

Interesting – while playing around with the Mystic Forge – you can actually create yet another strain of these yourself – that strain is also divisible by 5, but CAN be flushed down the Mystic Toilet, but CANNOT be salvaged…