Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this has been suggested/brought up, but I thought it would be a convenient way to eliminate any kind of player to player transaction scam via mail. Simply it’s a COD system in which if you are selling an item to a player, you can affix a value to an item you are sending and that the receiving party may acquire it only if they can pay the price on the item. If however they do not have the money within an allotted amount of time, the item will be then returned to the sender.

If this has been brought up sorry and you may close the post xD but thanks for reading.

this has only been brought up 20 million times but i digress . The only way this happens is if they work in the transaction taxes that are already on the TP and we both know the only reason your doing player to player trading is to avoid said tax .

There should be no tax, level 80 blue items are worth 75 copper, level 10 blue items are worth 49 copper. Point being, the level 80 blue should be worth a few silver to the merchant. These ridiculous low values for level 80 items is a tax in-of-itself.

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There should be no tax, level 80 blue items are worth 75 copper, level 10 blue items are worth 49 copper. Point being, the level 80 blue should be worth a few silver to the merchant. These ridiculous low values for level 80 items is a tax in-of-itself.

Obligatory economic gold-sink argument.

Thus, there should be tax.

This won’t happen. ANET deliberately chose not to include a trade window in GW2. Every single reason I’ve seen about why a trade window is a bad idea applies equally to COD mail. Even if the reason is wrong.

You say COD mail is to reduce the mail scam happening at the moment. True, COD mail would end that scam. However I’ve seen ANET staff claim that a trade window would open up the way for many other scams which would happen in far greater numbers. I’m not sure about the number of scams, but teaching people to avoid the single mail scam is much eaiser than teaching them to avoid all the scams that happened in GW1.

I’m an ex-Eve Online player. I don’t care about scams. But I still think a trade window/COD mail is a bad idea because I don’t want to see the trade spam that comes with it. To put it simply, GW2 has far less trade spam than any other MMO I’ve played, and the only explanation I can see is that with no trade window, there is no payoff to spamming. With no payoff, people don’t spam.

This won’t happen. ANET deliberately chose not to include a trade window in GW2. Every single reason I’ve seen about why a trade window is a bad idea applies equally to COD mail. Even if the reason is wrong.

You say COD mail is to reduce the mail scam happening at the moment. True, COD mail would end that scam. However I’ve seen ANET staff claim that a trade window would open up the way for many other scams which would happen in far greater numbers. I’m not sure about the number of scams, but teaching people to avoid the single mail scam is much eaiser than teaching them to avoid all the scams that happened in GW1.

I’m an ex-Eve Online player. I don’t care about scams. But I still think a trade window/COD mail is a bad idea because I don’t want to see the trade spam that comes with it. To put it simply, GW2 has far less trade spam than any other MMO I’ve played, and the only explanation I can see is that with no trade window, there is no payoff to spamming. With no payoff, people don’t spam.

1:1 trading hurts the economy; it only benefits a small fraction of the player base, at the expense of the majority. Among other reasons:

1. The TP is completely global, so the “invisible hand” adjust prices quickly, since everyone sells to everyone else. 1:1 trading removes people from this global economy.
2. The TP reduces the amount of profit someone can make by inequalities in information sharing, whereas 1:1 trading magnifies the benefits to those who know just a little bit more than others.
3. The TP prevents almost every type of trade scam: substitutions, misleading sales pitches, and so on. CoD only resolves one type of scam (not delivering what was promised).

I thought I would miss the bartering that goes on in other games (since I met nearly all of my closest gaming friends that way), but GW2 offers many other opportunities to meet people, even those who share an interesting in power trading.