Guild Wars 2

I think a lot of people are using the TP as a personal Bank/Merchant. They send everything that they get in their bags to the TP @1c over vendor, if it sells then its not really much loss, they can just keep sending stuff to the TP over and over and never have to deal with checking though anything or learning the value of items.
There is really nothing to discourage this as a few copper loss is acceptable to them as they never need to worry about it…just tra la la…oh my bags are full….one sec….okies everything is fine, sent it all to my personal merchant, he can deal with it for me.

Well if a time limit is imposed on all auctions, say a fluctuating list fee based on how many days you want to list items….3 , 5 , and 7 days listings. If it doesn’t sell after the time limit you have picked, the item will be sent back to your inbox, and after 10days if you do not take the items from the mail then they will be permanently deleted.

Suggestions, comments, additions ….discuss!

I like the idea of the auction time. I loved the 3rd party website auction house associated with the GW1 community where you can auction on the site and players can bid and whatnot, then receive items in game.

The time on auctions are nice and I would love that, but the major problem: players who actually use the TP for its intended use will sell rare and exotics for 2G+ which really takes a toll on their current income (due to 15% list fee). If the item is not sold, the money from the tax would be lost and they would have to reauction their item, paying an additional tax. Either ANet returns the tax money or this would not be a favored change.

Aside from this, an additional 10% of your sale gets taken upon successfully selling your item with no consent that it has been taken at all. These taxes frustrates sellers and makes outauctioning (resell at lower price) others almost a devastating blow at your current income because more and more money will be taken from you so aggressively that you will end up trying to sell your precious exotic just to regain that lost tax money back.

All in all, this system would destroy the economy by the taxes being placed on listed items and after sales. If the taxes are not lifted then time in auctioning items would ruin the trading post.

The listing would have to be changed to reflect, that some items would need to be re-listed. But they would have to be a reason for people NOT to just keep re-listing for free, so I have to disagree with a free listing if the auction fails. They do need to reconsider the final tax as I do agree the sales tax is killer to sales.

I think I also need to extend the idea further to also add a time limit on Buy Orders. People posting Buy Orders for less than a vendor, in hopes that someone clicks it by mistake. If the BO go away after a certain time will defeat the purpose for them, then that makes the scammer have to work for the gold instead, if they have to make BO every so often.

in favor of a time limit on running selling orders