So I’ve been attempting to search the foods on the Trading Post to get a good idea of what may be more profitable, available or which may be better sold as it’s raw materials.
So I click on the Search tab, select Consumable, the Food, leaving the Level Range set at 0 – 80 with no other search fields defined and click Submit. For some reason the only products that show up in that list so defined, is alcoholic beverages (that offer no buffs what so ever outside of intoxication, yay -_-). No foods ever show up in that list as defined above. However, if I am to type in the specific name a particular food it will show up. Of course leading me to believe that various player crafted foods are in fact on the TP.
Am I making some mistake in how I’m defining the search fields perhaps? Or is this another relatively small but greatly annoying glitch in the Trading Post and specifically I guess it’s search function.
Please, someone with more experience using the TP let me know. In general I haven’t used the TP very much at all as I leveled, mainly only to sell stacks of un-needed materials when they maxed out in my bank at 250. Now that I’m 80 though and have maxed Chef and Jewel Crafting to 400 I’m keenly interested in marketing what I can and maximizing the profits from those as now my focus has shifted to building specific gear sets to hone my build .
I can’t see myself taking time out of my chosen liesure activity to type in one specific food product after another attempting to isolate the most profitable. I dearly hope I’m making a mistake somewhere in my use of the TP search function. If it is a glitch I seriously have no intent on spending great amounts of time working around it in the only manner I’ve found because of the level of labor involved in searching each food, material, etc. and jotting them down to mathematically arive at the greatest profit / time invested.
Likewise, I don’t see many consumers who don’t already know the specific food they want spending that much time either to compare and contrast all the different consumables, buffs and prices. Which would further impact the market negatively I would guess.
Thank you in advance. I’m very much looking forward to knowing exactly what went wrong where and sincerely hope it’s my fault with but a simple fix needed to get the TP to work like I suspect it should.
