Guild Wars 2

I wanted to buy a new bow for my Ranger when she hit 40. I did a search, found one I liked for 1.41s, and was about to hit the “Buy” button when I noticed “or Place a custom offer” beside it. So I clicked on this, and it said there were 750 of this item available. So I said “Aha, overstock!!”, and I decided I would make an offer of 1.01s and see what happened. I did this, and the system deducted 1.01s from my fund and then said “Thanks” or “Complete” or some such (don’t remember exactly) .

That was last night. Now, 18 hours later, I still have no bow.

So my questions are:

1. is there a time limit on this offer, i.e., will I get my money back at some point if my offer is not accepted? I can see the offer on my “Items I am buying” screen, but there is no indication of a time limit…

2. how does the seller know that an offer has been made – does he get mail? If so, this is a pretty sucky way of doing it, since that person may have quite playing, died, or just be on vacation for a week or two…

your custom offer is basically like you laying your coins on the table and waiting for someone else to instantly sell their item to you at that price, it isn’t an offer in the sense that you’re thinking off though

1. not sure about the limit, but you can cancel your offer at any time in the “my transactions” tab. then go to a TP npc and collect your money back.

2. A seller has the option check the “current offers” before posting a price if the best offer is acceptable they can sell it instantly or decide to put the item a higher price.

right now custom offer is prob not being checked often becasue the game is new and not many people are used to the system.