Guild Wars 2

I stumbled across this combination here:
https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/item_details.json?item_id=46507

Just to be clear: does the “NoSell” flag always mean that you can’t sell this item to a merchant and no value is shown in the items tooltip? Or are there any special cases where vendor_value is required? Wouldn’t it be better to just unset vendor_value if “NoSell” is set?

So far I have not found a single item with the “NoSell” flag were the vendor_value is used for something.

There are more than 5000 items with this combination, see here for a complete list:
http://quaggan.de/en/items.html?filter[vendor_value][min]=1&filter[flags][]=NoSell&filter[flags][set]=1
(you have to copy the url by hand, the gw2 forum is a bit buggy …)

I guess some of them were intended to be sellable (Dyes?) and others were just given a value because they fit in a specific “category” (i.e. fine light armor with level 50)

I know of these other items (currently ~5303). Another guess was that vendor_value is used as minimum price in the AH, but this doesn’t make any sense in combination with the “AccountBound” flag either.

The NoSell flag hides items from both the Trading Post and vendor lists. It’s likely that the vendor_value gets set at a different stage of development, and whoever sets the NoSell flag just doesn’t bother to zero-out the vendor_value.

Nope, items with NoSell flag are tradable via the trading post (unless they are account or soulbound)

You’re right, I forgot about food. There must be a separate NoAuctionHouse flag that isn’t currently being exposed through the API. The rest of my point stands.

Afaik it has nothing like an NoAuctionHouse flag, thats indicated by the items beeing account or soulbound.
(An additional flag would just be redundant.)