Guild Wars 2

Hi,
i was wondering why someone put items at +1c than highest buyer price?
i’m not talking about 3 – 4 c items but more expensive ones.
highest buyer 64c
lowest seller 65c (few items)
next seller 97c

can you please explain me what that person was trying to do ?

Place a buy order.

this in not an answer.

an attempt to lower the price of this item? hoping that other ppl will start to sell at this price and slowly going lower…

This is a common deceptive trick used by buyers to get sellers who are used to undercutting by 1c to sell directly to the buyer.

Say you have 250 of an item and there is a buy order at 65c for 50 of them.
- You click “Sell Maximum” and then Sell.
- 50 will be instantly sold for 65c to the person/people who placed the buy order.
- The remaining 200 will be auto-posted at 65c as a sell order.

the problem is that i was the highest buyer and someone else the lowest seller at +1c … so i istantly bought all his items and flipped them.
but i’m not good at tp so maybe i’m missing something.

Unspecified.9142:

Say you have 250 of an item and there is a buy order at 65c for 50 of them.
- You click “Sell Maximum” and then Sell.
- 50 will be instantly sold for 65c to the person/people who placed the buy order.
- The remaining 200 will be auto-posted at 65c as a sell order.

ah, ok … so it may have been an error.

Sometimes it happens in error.

Say someone is offering to buy 20 ogre toenails at 99c each. Someone has 40 ogre toenails and clicks “sell to highest, sell maximum”.

The first 20 are sold at 99c to the highest bidder; but he’s still trying to sell 20 more; so the game automaticlly lists the remaining at 99c – the next highest buyer is typically only 1c below, so the next highest is 98c, leading to a situation where you have someone offering 98c and someone selling at 99c, your 1c spread

Or, if you click to sell to the highest buy order, and between the time you load your screen and click submit, someone else does the same thing. The buy order is filled out from under the would be seller, and his goods are put up as sell orders.

I wish it wouldn’t do this however, as it messes both with people listing at (or 1c less) than the lowest sell order, and causes the would be seller to instead have to wait for his goods to move instead of them being instantly sold as he/she likely intended.