Guild Wars 2

Today I was checking into orbs (as in Coral Orbs, Ruby Orbs, etc) on the auction house.

I found that the lowest price that Chrysocola Orbs are selling at is currently exactly 2 silver. I also noticed that there is an order for 217 of them at 1 copper each. At that time this was the ONLY order for these orbs. Since then other orders were placed. I thought I’d save a little money and order a few at 1 or 2 copper, but the auction house insisted that the minimum value I could order at was 1 silver, 99 copper. The reason given was that I could not go under the vendor price.

So, my question is that if I can’t order these for 1 copper, how did someone else order them for 1 copper? Is someone out there consistently buying stuff for 1 copper and then selling them for 2 silver, which means they get back 2,000 times as much as they spend? I don’t mind people making a profit, but that’s ridiculous and on the surface at least it looks like cheating of some kind.

The only thing I can think of is that perhaps these orders were placed a long time ago when perhaps the rule about vendor prices did not exist (if there ever was such a time). Other than that, it pretty much has to be cheating.

Those orders have been on the TP since before the “must be greater than vendor price” rule was created.

Those orders will stay on the TP until the GW2 servers shut down because no one will ever fill them.

mtpelion.4562:

Those orders have been on the TP since before the “must be greater than vendor price” rule was created.

Those orders will stay on the TP until the GW2 servers shut down because no one will ever fill them.

you can’t fill them, if you tried. They may be removed if people take down their acient buy orders, but considering some of these are from banned accounts..does everything they have get deleted..Or just frozen in time?

I believe listings made by accounts that were then banned remain in place. If it’s filled, the gold is sent to the pickup tab for that account. if the account is ever unbanned, they can pick it up.
It’s pretty common nowadays to not delete removed accounts (not just here) – but rather make them inaccessible. Each account takes up such a small amount of space on their servers that it’s not worth it to worry about running out, and there’s always the possibility of the ban being reversed.

I’ve seen some of these orders disappear, i.e. there used to be a lot more “less than vendor price” buy offers.