Raise, or remove, the minimum price on TP
This is a growing problem, people want items for 1 Copper. When people can’t sell them since they can’t be sold under “Normal” value..
So that item is now stuck, and the Buyer have to remove it to fix it..
This is a growing problem, people want items for 1 Copper. When people can’t sell them since they can’t be sold under “Normal” value..
So that item is now stuck, and the Buyer have to remove it to fix it..
That’s a different issue. Last I checked you could no longer create those low buy orders. But you used to be able to, and ANET hasn’t found a way to purge them yet.
Chances are some of the people who placed those orders have stopped playing, so the orders will never be manually removed. Or they forgot that they have placed the order.
Giving orders a maximum duration, say 30 days, would fix that. But it would still cause problems if ANET raises the minimum price, as there would be sell orders below the new minimum that can’t be filled because buy orders that low are blocked. So I’d suggest that the new limit is first applied to sell orders only. Wait until enough time has passed for all sell orders made before the limit change to expire. Then limit buy orders.
If they would remove the minimum sale price on all items. It would start moving the economy again. If someone puts up an item for lower then vendor then someone else can buy and sell to vendor, seller gets money they asked for, buyer gets money from resale, item gets moved off Trading Post. This change added with a more in your face telling of the Trading Post Tax would help to get people to price items better for selling. Would allow a more player driven economy, if I wanted to sell my car for less then its worth to get it out of my yard I should be allowed to even if I take a loss.
If this change was implimented the Trading Post would probably go haywire for a few days, but I believe it would work itself out for the better of all invoolved. The only problem I see is the hundreds of thousands of items already listed for 1copper over vendor price, which has already choked the Trading Post and nothing is moving. Maybe someway to purge all items sold at 1 copper over vendor back to their sellers and then if we keep the silly minimum price alerting people to the fact that selling for 1 copper over they have lost money already with a warning window inside the Trading post.
whats the point of doing so i mean why should i sell something in TP and get less
plus the wait till it is buyed when i can sell in vendor for better profit ?
whats the point of doing so i mean why should i sell something in TP and get less
plus the wait till it is buyed when i can sell in vendor for better profit ?
Some players will have lowbie gear or items they don’t want, but don’t want to vender them. They want their “hand me downs” to go to a good home with a player who needs them.
Sure, some players will buy them and vender them; but selling that item might give the seller some satisfaction.
Orders for items must be higher than vendor value.
Those orders are there from before.
They should simply remove them, as people can’t sell at those prices anyways and they only add confusion to the trading post.
They should also have a couple of links to display the entire list of current offers and orders when you put to sell or buy, instead just showing the current highest order and lowest offer.
And you should stop using ‘carebear’ for systems that prevent unfair exploitation of others.
“Carebear” should be used for things that are overprotective, with no risk at all, corny, tacky and too colorful.
When something is fair and logical, it’s not ‘carebear’ its proper.
Orders for items must be higher than vendor value.
Read my OP again. The limit being merely greater than vendor value is a nonsensical position. Raising it so that all sales earn the seller more than vendor price makes sense. Removing the limit makes sense.
Having a minimum price limit that allows setting a price where you earn less than vendor price does not.
And you should stop using ‘carebear’ for systems that prevent unfair exploitation of others.
Carebear is a very subjective term. After playing lots of Eve Online, I’m used to having enough tool that when I get scammed, I know it’s because I trusted someone that I shouldn’t, or wasn’t paying attention to all the information available to me. I also know that the GMs will take no action against the scammer.
I also needed a name for each option. Carebear was the first to come to mind.
“Carebear” should be used for things that are overprotective, with no risk at all, corny, tacky and too colorful.
A minimum price limit is overprotective, as all the information is available to everyone. So if someone gets less than vendor price after fees, it’s their fault for not paying attention. A minimum price means they don’t have to pay attention. My proposed increase to the minimum price is even more carebear.
For risk, the increased minimum price will stop people risking an item sells when they can get more from vendoring.
When something is fair and logical, it’s not ‘carebear’ its proper.
So I take it you would prefer the increased minimum price to removal of the price limits ?
whats the point of doing so i mean why should i sell something in TP and get less
plus the wait till it is buyed when i can sell in vendor for better profit ?
If your bags are full, with nothing worth sticking on the TP, you have a choice between trashing the item for nothing, or sticking it on the TP and getting something back. If you are in that situation, TPing for less than vendor price is rational.
Though I haven’t been in that situation. I’ve only ever had a full inventory once, and I had plenty of things I could TP for well above vendor price at the time. And that full inventory was on a character with a full set of 10 slot bags, no extra slots. With 15 slot bags I’ve never even come close to a full inventory.