Guild Wars 2

Listings below merchant price are showing up again. I once heard a Dev say that that shouldn’t happen. Now with the TP Light it seems to be more than ever. Or am I confused?

The situation is confusing:

• The new minimum price is vendor +18%.
• Before TP 2.0, there were millions of such listings; the update didn’t change that.
• For about 2 weeks after, you could only see a few hundred listings, which meant that a lot of folks (myself included) has buy offers that would never be fulfilled.

I don’t expect that ANet will do anything about this directly. Writing a script to cancel offers and refund money isn’t that tough. Running QA to make sure that doesn’t break something else can be very complex. Plus, people get extremely nervous about watching buy orders disappear, e.g. even now, people often think the TP is stealing money, when it’s often a matter of the person not taking into account relevant fees/taxes or mistaking a custom offer for an instant one.

However, you shouldn’t be seeing any new offers that are below vendor +18%. If you think that’s going on, I recommend trying to take before/after screen shots and/or compare to gw2tp.com, which should show “yesterday’s” low price. (For example, if you were to see a below-vendor price today, check to see if gw2tp.com shows that everything was vendor +18% the day before.)