Guild Wars 2

I just noticed when I listed an item (some random gathering item) for 34G it said the list price was 1.7 and projected profit is 30.60

What am I missing?

The actual profit is 30.6-1.7 = 28.9

the trading post take a listing fee but do not include the money paid as listing fee in the projected profits.

listing fee = 5% = 1.7G
shown profit = listing price -10% sale fee = 30.60 G
real profit: listing price – 5% listing fee – 10% sale fee = 28.9 G

And: yes, they could have made it way more understandable!

that sucks, listing fee plus sale fee wtf. Thanks for the clarification though.

Yes, easy way to figure this out if you are confused.

Selling an item for 100g means you’ll get 90g projected profit, however at 100g 5% is 5g, so you’ll actually get 85g total back instead of 90g as it appears since you paid 5g to list it.