Guild Wars 2

This has happened to me twice, on different days, and with different orders. I set an order for an item, and then a few hours later someone sets their order for the same price as me. Not a higher price, but exactly the same. I check items I’m buying, it shows 100. I check items being bought at that price, it shows 200. I know that I was the first one to list at that price because I checked the price before and after I set my buy orders.

Someone wants to match my buy price fine, but despite the fact that my orders were there first, the newer order gets filled before mine does. Why?

It should fill the older orders first before going to the newer orders. I verified that it was selling items to the newer order by selling one of my own items to the buy order to see if I got it back – I didn’t.

Since buy orders don’t have a fee it doesn’t take a lot of time to cancel and place my order again, although to pick up the money I have to be at a trading post. It seems silly that a competitor doesn’t have to increase his buy price in order to block me from buying, and if I fight back by just renewing my orders at the same price, I’m going to have to sit there for an unknown amount of time if he is doing the same thing. Going up in price is how you fight people in the trading post, but other bidders don’t actually have to increase their price to knock you out.

Unless it bugged in a recent patch, no it doesn’t work like that.

It operates on FIFO – First in, first out.

Could it be that you can’t see/fill your own buy orders?

I’m fairly sure I’ve sold to myself when flipping items and not paying enough attention.

You can certainly see your own buy orders, I think you can fill them too.

They need to redesign the trade post UI, so that when you click to buy or sell an item all of the relevant information is shown on a single page(i hope someone from anet reads this simple sentence)

IE buy/sell orders listed on 1 window, with your own order highlighted amongst the masses… i find myself checking orders and sale prices when selling or buyng things just because this information is highly valuable…

This has already been done properly in games like EVE online, and i dont see why ANET just doesnt rip some of the user interface ideas from ccp…

The TP UI could certainly use some work.

The projected profit / listing fee could do with being a bit clearer too.

ostracize.8316:

This has happened to me twice, on different days, and with different orders. I set an order for an item, and then a few hours later someone sets their order for the same price as me. Not a higher price, but exactly the same. I check items I’m buying, it shows 100. I check items being bought at that price, it shows 200. I know that I was the first one to list at that price because I checked the price before and after I set my buy orders.

Sorry, I don’t really get what you are looking at. What are you doing to verify that an item was sold to someone else before you? You set a new high price, so at that time you were the only one buying at it. Later on, someone else added an order at the same price. Right, and then? The number of buyers or sellers dropped? How do you know they were sold an item first and that they didn’t just cancel their orders?