Guild Wars 2

15% is too much when u sell item with high price, and we don’t have a trade (player to player) option.

The essence of trading implies a person to person exchange in my personal opinion. Another MMO I used to play allowed for this. You could preview and approve the exchange and bam! you were done. It was an official game feature apart from the market. Anets philosophy contradicts this method sadly so we may never see this implemented. 15% sure seems like highway robbery sometimes when your posting expensive kitten for sale so I gotta agree with you buddy.

An excellent gold sink working as intended.

Jrunyon.3012:

An excellent gold sink working as intended.

I see I was two hours late to say that.

Yes, it is just you. The 5% listing fee and 10% sales tax are just fine. They function as highly effective gold sinks, as noted above, (combating inflation) and serve as a deterrent to using the trading post as a surrogate bank. Also, 15% is always 15%, regardless of how expensive the item you’re selling is…

The biggest benefit of not having direct player-to-player trading is A) not having to listen to god awful WTB/WTS spam in map chat and B) never having to listen to people complain about being scammed through their own obliviousness.

If you truly want to avoid the taxes, you are more than welcome to mail items/gold to another player, but there is no-one to enforce those trades and you partake in them at your own risk. Anet provides a 100% scam-free alternative, because despite having player-to-player trading with confirmations and notifications when offers changed, people still managed to get themselves scammed in Guild Wars. With the Trading Post, this cannot happen. Please do not advocate for a return to an inferior method of trading.

5% & 10% is A way to do it. it helps with inflation. not the only way, but it works pretty well. stop thinking you need to undercut everyone who undercuts you, and list your things for what they are worth, not what the current sell prices are, and you won’t have to relist at all.

Would be nice if they allowed the 15% to be relocated to the end of the sale.
Example:
I put “The Lover” on the Trading Post
I am charged 0% tax
Once the item is sold or withdrawn you are charged with a 15% tax of the value listed.

Not many people can afford 60-70 gold to list an item… there is nothing breaking the market. Gnashblade still gets his 15% irregardless if the item sells or not. All you are doing is relocating the fee from the front end to the back end.

Wolfey.3407:

Would be nice if they allowed the 15% to be relocated to the end of the sale.
Example:
I put “The Lover” on the Trading Post
I am charged 0% tax
Once the item is sold or withdrawn you are charged with a 15% tax of the value listed.

Not many people can afford 60-70 gold to list an item… there is nothing breaking the market. Gnashblade still gets his 15% irregardless if the item sells or not. All you are doing is relocating the fee from the front end to the back end.

If there was no consequence to listing something outrageously then prices would be kittened up

If prices get kittened up, then they will have to eat the 15% fee of their greed to take that item back off the market to try to re-sell it at a competitive price.

Wolfey.3407:

If prices get kittened up, then they will have to eat the 15% fee of their greed to take that item back off the market to try to re-sell it at a competitive price.

^ What he said. Realistically speaking, very few people are going to buy a Tiny Totem for 1g, given current income values. Eventually, people who decide to overprice will have to lower their prices, as they realize thakitten ’s more profitable not to wait years for a single item to be sold, and instead sell at a price that buyers can afford.

The 5% upfront is there to keep players from using the TP as a surrogate bank. Without the upfront fee, you could store anything you wanted indefinitely on the TP as long as you set a ridiculous buyout.

The 10% on the sell side never kicks in if you don’t actually sell the item.