Guild Wars 2

I was selling alot of items at 4s 98c and I was noticing despite the 25c listing fee I was paying from my own money, I was only receiving 4s 48c in trade profits.
Is this a glitch? or is it intended and just poorly stated.

There is a 5% listing fee, or downpayment you make to post onto the Trading Post. After an item says there is an additional 10% sale fee.

This means in total you are paying 15% of whatever you plan on making back to the Trading Post.

This is to stop easy turn around of people buying items at a low price, and selling them barely higher to net small profit in large amounts.

Always intend to make more than 15% profit if you plan on buying and reselling.

That this isn’t clearly communicated in the UI is very disappointing. It creates the illusion that there’s a market inefficiency which just ends up burning money if a player tries to correct it.

A player shouldn’t have to visit the forums or read a wiki to learn these basic game mechanics; they should be clearly communicated in the UI for the TP.

There are some other UI issues with the TP that could use some polish, but this needs to be fixed right away.

Would be nice if the deposit was just that.. a deposit. Listing deposit 5% but then it counted in the final 10% deduction… so in total you pay 10% not 15%. When you are selling 3-5 gold items it really blows to have to pay 15%.