A Question about the Trading Post

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Posted by: Velarian.6290

Velarian.6290

I’m sure this came up quite a few times, but can’t find any Topic relating to this.

So, my understanding regarding the trading post was that when i instantly sell an item to the highest bid i pay 10% taxes flat and when i list an item i pay 5% listing fee and after selling it the 10% flat tax.

but today i noticed that when i sell an item to the highest bid instantly i pay 5% “sell tax” out of my wallt and flat 10% tax from the amount i get into my inbox.

example: i sold an item for 1 s 11 c to the highest bid instantly, got 1s in my inbox and lost 6c from my wallet.

as far as my understanding goes this 5% that is substracted from my wallet isnt stated anywhere.

i know i’m a bit late on this but i only started to pay attention when i started to trade items worth more than 100g in total.

anyone wanna make a comment on that?

Sincereley

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Posted by: Thaddeus.4891

Thaddeus.4891

When you sell something you gonna only receive 85% of the price the guy paid for.

You have the listing fee (5% of the total selling price) that amount will be took from your wallet and is nonrefundable if you decide to not sell the item later.

And you also have a exchange or selling fee (10% of the total selling price) that amount is taken from the amount of gold you gonna receive from the sell.

Both the listing and exchange fee are written when you sell an item. But only the exchange fee is taken into account on the big number in the middle of the screen because that’s the amount of gold you gonna receive and the listing fee have nothing to do with that.

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Posted by: mtpelion.4562

mtpelion.4562

You pay the listing fee whenever you list something for sale, even if you are listing it for sale at a price someone has already agreed to pay (i.e. selling it to a buy order).

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Posted by: Velarian.6290

Velarian.6290

ah ok my bad. i still think its a bit unclear in the in game description.

i thought that the 5% listing fee was for the possibility to make a bigger profit and that u safe that for the quick buck

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Posted by: Velarian.6290

Velarian.6290

you know the “list” option and the “listing fee” opposed to “sell instantly” and “exchange fee”

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Posted by: Thaddeus.4891

Thaddeus.4891

No those are different. The difference in price from list and sell instantly is about what people are ready to offer. People can make a buy order that’s gonna cost less gold and those offer are filled by people that want to sell immediately for less. Or you can make a sell offer that is higher but you gonna need to wait for someone ready to pay that price to have the item right away.

So patient seller sell to impatient buyer and impatient seller sell to patient buyer

Thaddeauz [xQCx]- QC GUILD

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Posted by: Velarian.6290

Velarian.6290

yes sure i get that, my point is that i think it is unclear in the interface. i asked in my guild an everyone thought it was 10% for insta sells, 15% in total for listing. sure, if u pay attention it is easy to see but not instantenously obvious by looking at the interface.