Guild Wars 2

what is the purpose of the projected profit indicator when selling items on teh TP?

last night i crafted a mystic claymore, and then sold it to a buy order.

the projected profit was stated as 4g77s for a listing of 5g30s

when i hit the sell button, the projected profit number suddenly changed to ~4g50s, which is what i recived in my pick up tab.

is this intended? what is the purpose of this? is it intentional to be so deceptive? or only buggy?

That was either a bug, or you sold to the highest offer instead, and that highest offer was 5g rather than 5g30s. Because the amount to pick up from 5.3g is definitely 4.77g, as the initial projection stated, whereas 4.5g is exactly what you’d pick up from a 5g sale.

(Keep in mind that in neither case does the projected profit include the additional 5% listing fee, which is taken out of your inventory at the time you first put the listing up.)

It was indeed sold to a buy order, according to dirtyklingon.

One distinct possibility is that the buy order you wanted to sell to (at 5g30s) got filled before you sold it yourself, and then when you sold it the highest buy order was down to 5g.

Projected profit is sell price – 10% tax.

It does not include the 5% listing fee detailed below.

No bug, just a poorly explained system.

Jestunhi.7429:

Projected profit is sell price – 10% tax.

It does not include the 5% listing fee detailed below.

No bug, just a poorly explained system.

Pay closer attention to the numbers given. If only 4.5g was in the pickup window, but the projected “profit” said 4.77g, something weird happened. Because the projected profit is exactly the expected amount that should show up in the pickup window.

I suspect lackofcheese’s explanation is the correct one, which means that the sale system lacks the warning the buying system has when the item is no longer available at the price you previously selected. If that’s the case, it is something that should probably be fixed (more urgently than the sometimes poorly understood tax + fee system, in fact).

i actually didn’t have the 5% listing fee on that toon at first and it wouldn’t let me list the item until i had that amount on that toon.

like i said, when i hit sell the projected profit changed itself to the ~4g50s that was in pick up.

i should have noted if the listing fee was also subtracted.

i had refreshed the sell window moments before pressing sell and there were multiple orders for the mystic claymore at this price.

What does it show as in your “items I’ve sold” tab, 5g 30s or something lower?

says 5g30s in the items i’ve sold transaction list.

well 15% sales tax on 5.30 equals .795 so getting 4.50 back from a 5.30 sale makes sense.

the problem is with the projected profit being misleading and deceitful.

That’s unusual, because I’m pretty sure that even when you sell to a buy order, the listing fee is paid directly out of your inventory, not subtracted from the sale price. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense to prevent you from selling to a buy order if you don’t have the amount on you.

I’m also pretty sure that the sales tax is 10%, not 15%.

dirtyklingon.2918:

well 15% sales tax on 5.30 equals .795 so getting 4.50 back from a 5.30 sale makes sense.

A net profit of 4.50 makes sense, but not seeing 4.50 in the pickup window, since that’s only supposed to be after the 10% sales tax.