Guild Wars 2

Trading post is completely screwed up.

1: Anet can fix a lot of the problems by making people have to list items for more than 1c above vendor price. When people post items for 1c above vendor prices, they end up losing 15% of their money. I don’t know if people don’t realize that there is a tax, but even if they don’t, why would you only want a 1c profit on something that could take days to sell. This makes it really hard to sell items that you don’t want and get a good amount of money for them. It also makes it hard to sell most items on the TP, because almost all of the items but the rare and higher gear is posted for 1c above vendor price.

2: The feature that allows people to name their price needs to be fixed, or removed completely. When they select an item and they name their price, some people say they will only pay 1c for the item. This happens a lot with blue items. The way they can fix this is by making it impossible to name a price under the lowest possible selling price. If they fix the above problem, then people should not be able to ask for a price where the seller would get no profit.

Summary: Anet needs to fix the lowest possible selling price to make people have to post items for a price where they will get at least 1 coin in profit after tax. And the “name your price feature” needs to not allow people to ask for a price on an item where the seller would get no profit after tax.

If these two things are fixed, people will start making higher amounts of money and things like fast travel will not put as much of a dent in your funds, but items bought on the TP will still have the same impact on your amount of gold because prices will go up, as will your income.

Bad idea. Unless they fix the bot farmers first!…. Just saying….

1. Wait until that item sells? then yours is the cheapest again! If speed of selling is your aim then I suggest you lower your price.

2. I’m not sure this is “broken”, because you have to think for a moment instead of blindly clicking sell on everything knowing that you will make a profit? Next thing we know people will be asking for items worth more on the TP to not be allowed to be sold to vendors to protect people from not making the maximum profit possible!

The second problem has already been fixed, in that you can no longer post buy orders lower than vendor price. They just haven’t cleared out all the old unfulfillable orders yet.

The first problem isn’t a problem because the TP doesn’t owe you a profit. If something isn’t profitable to sell there, simply don’t sell it there. (Vendor it or salvage it or throw it into the Mystic Forge or whatever. If it’s a crafted good, don’t craft that good in the first place if it’s not selling for a profit and you want to craft for a profit.)

What’s wrong with letting ignorant people and those too lazy to go to a vendor get 15% less for their item?

Setting the minimum at vendor price or 1c over vendor is fine.