Guild Wars 2

As it stands now, the lowest price allowed in the trading post simply doesn’t make any sense. Sure, you have to list items for greater than the vendor price. But, because you lose 15% of your sale to the listing fee and sales tax, anyone listing for the minimum allowed amount is going to get less coin than vendoring the item. If the price floor was removed, those players would only be getting two copper less per item (before fee+tax) than now, as people buying items to vendor them would outbid each other until they are all only making one copper per item.

Having no price floor at all makes sense. Let market forces do as they will.

Having a price floor of >({vendor price}/0.85) makes sense. With that, any item listed on the trading post will give the person listing it at least 1 more coin than if they vendor it, if it sells.

I just can’t understand why ANET set the limit to >{vendor price}

I don’t think there’s a good reason behind that decision; it probably wasn’t fully thought through.

Yes. It is extremely annoying seeing as how EVERYTHING except rare and higher gear is put up for 1c above vendor price. It makes it impossible to sell crafting mats for a profit, and makes people not get as much money as they would with higher prices.

Just place a macro into the game that if you list something where, after the tax the amount of copper you get is less than or equal to vendor, the game just buys it at vendor price immediately.