Guild Wars 2

For those of us that use the TP a lot, we know there is a 5% listing fee, and 10% tax. This means that you should list things for at ~20% more in order to pay for the fee and actually make a small amount.

The TP is horrible bc most players do not realize this and are actually losing money to sell stuff, which kills the market for the rest of us.

In order to help fix this, I suggested adding a line that shows you the 10% tax up front (in addition to the existing 5% fee, and a line that calculates what your end profit will be.

I have seen ppl selling junk for 1 copper with a 1 copper fee. These ppl are basically giving away/being charged to sell there stuff. Yes, I know they are idiots for not paying attention. But can Anet help by at least making it more obvious?

The best solution that I’ve seen so far is that the TP should automatically buy stuff that will lose money because of the tax+ fee this way items that will prob won’t sell anyway won’t clutter the tp.

Anything that can sell on the trading post for 1c won’t sell to vendors at all, so there’s no other option. Furthermore, I doubt anyone sells them one at a time. If you sell 20 of them, there’s still only a 1c listing fee, and there’ll be another 2c taken from your revenue after they sell, which still nets you 18c.

Anything that vendors for 4c or less is fine to sell (in bulk) at the minimum 1c markup on the BLTC, because that 1c markup is at least the 20% you’re talking about.

(Actually, how does the 10% thing work? Does it apply it to each item if they sell one at a time, in which case you get ripped off for items selling at 5c to 10c if they round up, but you don’t have to pay a fee for items under 5c?)

Just adding my agreement that the user interface should simply reflect the true math involved in the sales. It should show the ‘listing fee’ and ‘sales tax’ values up against the user’s sale price value. That’s it. I doubt we can argue with the math itself, but we can at least ask that the user interface reveal it to us in a simple, clear, straight-forward manner. I think that’s a fair request. And if there are any interesting quirks impacting buyers as there are for sellers, those should be made clear on the user interface as well. Thanks, ArenaNet, for considering.