Guild Wars 2

Hey Everyone,

Today I was wrapping up a multi -part youtube video on making money at 80 with the Trading Post. I ran into a issue, that seems like it’s working as intended but the common sense of the issue makes it feel like a bug.

The issue is, when a seller is placing an item on the TP but instead matches the highest offer from a buyer, the seller is still incurred the listing fee of 5% for the instant transaction. It seems from a common sense perspective that the listing was never made, in fact we could debate the buyer did the listing, and not the seller. So it feels like a bug, even though this may be working as intended. Just a suggestion to change.

Second, Would it be possible to have the Trading Post act as a Merchant for items that come in under the vendor resell rate (basically tabulate Listing and Sales Tax to compared to vendor selling ) or provide the player with a warning they’re going to make less then what the vendor is offering after Listing and Sales Tax? I’ll give a prime example. Thick Leather Section, this vendors for 7 copper a piece. Yet on the TP it’s lowest selling price is 8 copper from 200 sellers at a quantity sums of ~40k (time of post). That’s 4 gold in lost sales. Here’s the math (I’ll do it for single and max quantities). When they place the Thick Leather on the TP they incur 5% listing that’s .35 copper which is rounded up in this case to 1 copper. When they make the sale they are taxed 1 copper (10% of 8 copper = .8 rounded up to 1 copper). So when the Seller picks-up from the BLTC, it says they sold the item for 7 copper (8-1copper), but they forgot they forked over 1 copper to list it, thus a profit of 6 copper; 1 copper below Vendor selling. What about Bulk quantities? Lets do that math, 250 Thick Leather sections at 8 copper a piece incurs a 1 silver Listing and comes to the total of 20 silver if sold. If it all sells, the seller will take on a 10% Sales Tax coming out to 2 silver, meaning the seller lost 3 silver overall for a total gain of 17 silver. If they sold all 250 to the vendor they would have made 17silver:50 copper. A gain of 50 copper, money in hand to the vendor; a 50 copper loss on the TP.

Just two things that stood out to me. Thank you for your time and wonderful game.