Guild Wars 2

Lets say that an item has two orders listed between the mass of other orders:
– A buy order at 5 silver per unit
– A sell order at 4 order per unit

How does the trading post resolve them ?
Does the buyer pay less coin than he offered, does the seller get more, do they both get their listed price with the TP pocketing the difference, or does something else happen ?

When you directly buy from sellers, if a price is listed below yours and isn’t shown on the list, you’ll buy it and then it will refund the difference when you pick it up, so I would assume it works the same way for buy orders.

Never the twain shall meet. If there was a buy order for 5 silver when you listed your items for 4 silver, why didn’t you just sell? and vice versa. If there were items to purchase for 4 silver, why would you place a buy order for 5 silver.

In the unlikely event that this should occur, the TP doesn’t do auto buy/sale. When you place a buy order, another player has to make the selection to sell to you. And when you place a sale listing, another player has to make the selection to purchase said listing.

The TP will never automatically connect these two separate listings.

Nukum.4502:

Never the twain shall meet. If there was a buy order for 5 silver when you listed your items for 4 silver, why didn’t you just sell? and vice versa. If there were items to purchase for 4 silver, why would you place a buy order for 5 silver.

In the unlikely event that this should occur, the TP doesn’t do auto buy/sale. When you place a buy order, another player has to make the selection to sell to you. And when you place a sale listing, another player has to make the selection to purchase said listing.

The TP will never automatically connect these two separate listings.

Oh, it happens. I’ve seen plenty of it around and at first I was dumbfounded why that scenario even exists. The only thing I can think of is that people doesn’t check at all.

Also, a few days ago, I started seeing an error that we can not sell to “buy orders” whose price is below the vendor price. I’m not sure if that was in originally, but it was only a few days ago that I started seeing it.

If we can not (or no longer) sell to “buy orders” that are below the vendor price, then those buy orders should be cleaned up because no one will ever be able to sell to them.

If there was a buy order for 5 silver when you listed your items for 4 silver, why didn’t you just sell? and vice versa.

I can see two ways this could happen:

1 – The second person to place their order wants a higher quantity. So they place their order for the full quantity.

2 – They were placed very closely together. As in person 1 checks. Then person 2 checks before person 1 has placed their order. Then person 2 places their order not knowing about person 1’s order.