Guild Wars 2

While this doesnt always apply to lower cost items. Sell a 3c item the Listing fee is 1c so ya get 2c which is what the Projected Profit shows.

My problem is the higher you get the projected profit doesnt match what you put for sell(whether lowest seller or highest buyer or put your own) after the Listing fee takes off.

If I want to sale my Mystic Forge Conduit. and put it was 1c below lowest seller. It would be 72g 1s 0c. The Listing price is 3g 60s 5c with Projected Profit being shown as 64g 80s 90c. The money I should get is after doing the math is 68g 41s 95c not what the Projected Profit is showing.

Pretty sure there is nothing else that takes the extra money so the Projected Profit needs to be fixed if so.

5% listing fee payable when you put the item on the TP, 10% transaction fee once you sell the item, which is what is shown as projected profit.

You need to take the projected profit and minus the listing fee to get the real profit. Projected profit should really include the listing fee but does not.
If it did your projected profit for the item you listed would be:
61 gold 20 silver 85 copper

The Projected Profit is the Sell Price with 10% deducted as the transaction fee. The Listing Fee is an additional fee on top of this, at 5% of the Sell Price. So in the end, you would get 61.2085 Gold, or 61 gold, 20 silver and 85 copper.

You wanna know what sucks?

KrisV.5612:

While this doesnt always apply to lower cost items. Sell a 3c item the Listing fee is 1c so ya get 2c which is what the Projected Profit shows.

you sell it for 3c.
you pay 1c to list it (“Listing Fee: 1c”)
you get 2c back (“Projected Profit”)
that’s 1c actual profit (33%)

I recommend saving these up until you get 250, then:
you sell each for for 3c (7s50c)
you pay 38c to list it
you get between 5s0c and 6s75c back (depending on how many different people bought those 250 items)
that’s 4s62c – 6s37c actual profit (~73%)

Mystic.5934:

a better word instead of “Projected Profit” is “Projected Return”, meaning how much you will be delivered when the item sells.

Agreed. I stopped thinking about it as “profit” a long time ago. It is just the projected net return if your item sells.

Since it’ll cost you the same listing fee if the item sells or you decided to pull it before it sells, it makes the listing fee is therefore moot.

It’ the projected profit due solely due to the sale, which is selling price – 10%.

Another way to look at it is lets say you include the listing fee into the profit equation. Works fine as long as you didn’t remove the item from sale at some point and relist it at a different price. Then at that point your profit on the item is the sale price – 15% – 5% of the previous sale price – 5% of the previous, previous sale price, etc. That would be tougher to track per item just to show your “true profit”. Much easier just to show you what will be deposited at the TP in your name after the sale and then up to you to keep track of any miscellaneous costs.

ideally, it should display:
Price per unit:
Total Price: 100%
Listing Fee: 5%
Projected Return: 90% (note that this is the current “Projected Profit”)
Projected Profit: 85%