Guild Wars 2

This has to do with the error which still exists despite the changes made and why it should be fixed.

When you get an inventory full of junk, you have some options. You can salvage it, vendor it, or sell it on the TP (I’m sure there are other options).

The two options I want to focus on is selling it to a vendor vs selling it on TP via completing buy orders.

As it is, I can empty the trash to a vendor in one quick swoop. Just pick the item at the top and start clicking. A double click sells and the list bumps up putting the next item in line.

Yet if I sell to buy orders, despite the extra clicks that make it take longer vs selling to a vendor, if you do it too quickly it’ll trigger an error.

When you sell to a vendor, this acts as a gold faucet. It converts the item that was generated by the game, into gold.

Alternatively, when the item is sold on the TP, the gold isn’t being generated. It’s simply switching from player to player. In addition to that, the item that was spawned by the game is being put into circulation via completing a buy order thus reducing the TP value of said item. Such a transaction comes at a market cost which acts as a gold sink. So we have two benefits. First is the anti-inflation of a particular item by putting the item into market circulation, and second is the anti-inflation of removing gold from the player base. The first has an added benefit of causing the price of the item on the market to more accurate reflect a fair market price based on supply and demand.

As it is, this error is a hindrance that encourages players to simply vendor most items causing an influx of new gold.

Now one excuse I’ve heard had to do with gold farmers selling dropped items on TP because they can get more gold for each item than they can using a vendor. So the error slows them down.

But there is something that is overlooked. Gold sellers are gonna do what they do regardless. So which would you rather have? Have them sell the items to a vendor and bring new gold into circulation or have them sell to other players which is neutral because the gold is simply switching hands? Actually with the transaction fees, it’s a gold sink.

If anything should have an error for selling too frequently it should be selling to vendors thus encouraging players to sell their goods on the TP.

So for the sake of convenience to the players, for the sake of encouraging gold neutral trading activity, and for the sake of increasing the gold sink effectiveness of trading fees, please do something about this error that has existed since launch.