Guild Wars 2

Why for example are there people who list common crap for such huge prices?

example
Stick of butter: 2 available for 10 GOLD!!
1 for 9 GOLD??!

Look at Copper ore

1 available for 105 GOLD??

wtf are you serious?
its not like you can just buy that particular one for 105 gold, So the gold buying theory isn’t valid. The sellers have to know that no one EVER will buy 1 copper for 105 Gold. Why would they even sell it , its just a wast of the listing tax.
So what gives.. just take a look, on almost every item there is a exuberant price listing?
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Two legitimate, intended reasons to put items up for ridiculous prices:

Sometimes people say “buy 250” without looking at the price of what 250 costs or how far down in the supply it hits. When that happens, a ridiculously overpriced sell order has the potential to be filled.

Sometimes there are bots who auto-buy things without intelligent consideration for the price. I know I’ve seen an extremely common crafting item that’s never deviated from 10c-20c shoot up to actually selling for 2g because a bot was mindlessly spending it’s money.

For the lols? shrug

Or maybe it was a typo that they didn’t realize they put in, glossing over it while clicking in hundreds of transactions in a mechanical fashion.

Yeah it’s a 9 gold listing fee. That’s a lot to pay for lols. I’ve had a theory for a while (get your tin foil hats ready) that Anet has a Tp bot that posts and purchases items based on whatever criteria they’ve programmed into it to influence their market. A lot of times there are purchase orders for seemingly worthless items. I think their bot places purchase orders for things to influence the market and make crafting viable.

>OP

When you’re rich and don’t care about throwing away 9 gold on listing fees, you get this.

in those cases, my bet is on typo.
When I came in here, I thought you were asking about white equipment. Sometimes the merchant will buy it for 30c, but then you go to the TP and there’s 106 buyer orders for it at 1s30c. what gives with that!? my only guess is people are salvaging them, but couldn’t they just buy the whites from any armor shop?

Because there are dumb people in the world. Humans aren’t perfect and do stupid things from time to time.

It’s an easy and unsuspicious way to trade gold.

Gold buyer wants to buy appx 10g
Gold seller willing to sell 10g for $
Gold buyer transfer cash
Gold buyer indicates to seller to buy the one butter listing at 10g70s67c (a way to differentiate and make sure you are buying the right one)

Or said player might have multiple accounts and is exploiting with one of them so he wants to transfer the gold to his main account.

Vol.5241:

It’s an easy and unsuspicious way to trade gold.

Gold buyer wants to buy appx 10g
Gold seller willing to sell 10g for $
Gold buyer transfer cash
Gold buyer indicates to seller to buy the one butter listing at 10g70s67c (a way to differentiate and make sure you are buying the right one)

Gold sellers do that in games like WoW, where you can buy specific orders. It doesn’t work in GW2. There’s no way to buy that 10g70s67c butter without buying up the half-million butters cheaper than it.

As a general explanation for most WTF things you see in trading post, just remember—most bizarre behavior can be explained by someone behaving stupidly, and there’s a lot of people out there with the opportunity to be stupid on a regular basis.

Hmm the people are just being stupid actually kinda makes sense.

Olfinbedwere.5049:

Yeah it’s a 9 gold listing fee. That’s a lot to pay for lols. I’ve had a theory for a while (get your tin foil hats ready) that Anet has a Tp bot that posts and purchases items based on whatever criteria they’ve programmed into it to influence their market. A lot of times there are purchase orders for seemingly worthless items. I think their bot places purchase orders for things to influence the market and make crafting viable.

Not enough tin foil in the world :P

Mystic.5934:

in those cases, my bet is on typo.
When I came in here, I thought you were asking about white equipment. Sometimes the merchant will buy it for 30c, but then you go to the TP and there’s 106 buyer orders for it at 1s30c. what gives with that!? my only guess is people are salvaging them, but couldn’t they just buy the whites from any armor shop?

you realise that if shop wants to buy it from you for 30c, it doesn’t mean shop sells it for 30c? cheapest 80 armor(75-80 is only ones that fit for ori salvaging and guaranteed mithril) costs more than 2s.

Olfinbedwere.5049:

Yeah it’s a 9 gold listing fee. That’s a lot to pay for lols. I’ve had a theory for a while (get your tin foil hats ready) that Anet has a Tp bot that posts and purchases items based on whatever criteria they’ve programmed into it to influence their market. A lot of times there are purchase orders for seemingly worthless items. I think their bot places purchase orders for things to influence the market and make crafting viable.

Just like the US government planned 9/11, eh?

Conspiracies are conspiracies.