Guild Wars 2

Sale Items

So I’ve been checking the trading post and I have around 200 items that are up for sale. Some items are new, most older than 2 weeks.

The items that are older than 2 weeks are priced lowest market value, but due to 1000k+ of them for sale likely won’t be sold anytime soon.

A solution for this is to have items that have been on the trade-post for lets say 2 weeks or more automatically enter into sale mode where they are discounted for 10-15% off.

This will make them cheaper and more likely to be sold.

Trade Post Flippers

More and more often I see Trade Post flipper request hundreds of the item for 2-10cs trying to get a cheap supply, not knowing that people can’t trade-in those items because the game locks people from selling items that are undervalued. Either decrease the prices players can put up when trying to sell an item, or increase the low end amount players can enter when requesting items.

Sale items: I don’t see that there’s a problem having items up for two weeks or longer. I’ve listed some stuff that I don’t expect to be worth much until October; I’m content to wait.

But there’s a bigger issue with automatically setting prices: this has unexpected impacts on the economy and can be manipulated by shrewd traders: anyone can hope to get lesser prices by simply listing an item repeatedly at a discount rate; those who are wealthy will gain from this and those who have less will not.

Instead, ANet could make it easier to relist an item at a lower price. Currently, you have to remove the listing and repost; they could add an “edit” button instead (same listing fee though).

Trade Flipping: you already cannot post an offer for less than 1c above vendor value; most of those listings are there because they were entered before that feature was added. Perhaps they could be removed by ANet.

However, there are a lot of people selling items for more than vendor value, e.g. selling Grand Master Training manuals for 2.5-3g (although they are available in every city for 2g). I think this is people trying to take advantage of other people’s ignorance, but I don’t think ANet needs to act to prevent it. People need to learn to check the wiki and the TP before listing a buy or sell offer.