So this has been on my mind for a few days and have no decided to bring it to the forums. Something needs to change if crafting is to continue as a viable method of making money. I don’t want to spend my time farming or playing the TP in order to get money so please listen in.
I never really gave the listing fee much thought when I posted things on the TP, but yesterday i suddenly realized that it actually cuts my profit from my jewelry in half? What does that leave me with? A profit of roughly 5% of the price I listed the items for. In the retail world that would be considered a full loss where you aim for a profit of 20%+ and tell you what; when you use 2g+ on mats for ONE item it is rather risky to go for a profit of 10 to 15 silver.
So what can be done? The obvious problem is that people don’t realize how little money they make as I expect the minority of crafters to actually have spreadsheets to plot their profit, so a method that makes it clear to people how little they actually make. Either that or take away the taxes on craftings or at least lower the 10% sell-fee to something more reasonable.
I don’t want to play a risky game of chess when I spend over 2 gold of money only to see a puny profit of 10 silver yet risk that some uninformed and careless player lists the items lower and draws down the buy-line to a place where you lose money and where I to follow and list the item once more I would already be in negative income due to listing fee.
So please do something about this ANet.