Guild Wars 2

I’m not quite sure how to start this off. I want to keep it simple…

When you post something, there is a listing fee, clearly, based on the amount of money you would like to make on your sale. The “listing” fee also applies when you do an auto sale to an offered amount as well… why is that, if I am not “listing”?

Second. If someone undercuts my items price after I’be listed it. And oh say, it’s worth 20 gold like I did earlier today, and I want to list it again, I do not get my listing fee that the item cost back?

And on TOP of that, there is a “projected profit” / a “percentage we will take from you” after the item sells as well. This was not in Guild Wars when it first released… why was it added?

My biggest pet peeve is the not giving me back the listing fee when ever I need to relist something in order to even sell it. Ebay doesn’t charge me a listing fee unless I actually make the sale and if I pull it down to alter the price, or to cancel the item the fee is also canceled.

Someone in my guild told me they accidentally listed an item for like 160 or some gold. And the listing fee was like 15g. That they could no longer get back.

GW1 does not have as complicated an economy as GW2 – afterall, GW1 is not a traditional MMO. These fees are put in the game as a gold sink to combat inflation.

As for not giving you back your listing fee – it’s meant as a deterrent for people to use the outpost as a free bank. If there was no listing fee, I would list every single item that is currently in my bank for 999g. Obviously no one will buy it, and that’s the point – I would use it as storage.

If everyone did that it would lag the trading server.

It also encourages you to properly price your items. Price it too high and you risk losing your fee.

The fee is actually split. I believe it is 5% for listing. Theoretically if this were a real market you could say the 5% is for using the infrastructure of the exchange to reach potential buyers.

Then when you do sell an item, you get charged an additional 10% commission fee.