Guild Wars 2

Now, this has gone on for a long time but just wanted to bring this to peoples attention because it seems to have become more and more prevalent. When you are going to sell an item please, carefully look at the buy and sell prices – mass buyers like to manipulate the market by (depending on the value of the item) posting 1 to a few hundred of an item 1 copper above what they are willing to pay in order to trick lazy buyers into using the “sell instantly.” Please, sellers, look to see what the current sell offers are before using the easy way out.

As an example, ToT bags this am – top buy offer was 1000 ToT bags at 4s34c. Best sell offer was 4s35c. Ok, except there were ~ 40 bags…the NEXT sell offer was 5s19c and went up from there. I’ve seen this MANY times on the Glob of Ecto market but that one is a bit harder to control – usually the buyer just posts 1 at 1 copper above what they have a buy order in for 100’s or 1000’s of them – usually well below the market.

Sure, sometimes this is not a buyer trying to manipulate the market and it happens to be someone who feels better posting for 1c above the buy offer instead of feeling like they are getting less…but yeah, smart buyers do try to maniuplate so people need to be smart sellers.

Nope, this is not a conspiracy theory – this is a result of a bug-feature introduced with the new TP. If you sell 100 ectos instantly for the 250 buy orders, but 150 buy orders are already filled by the moment you press the button, you will get a partial sell error and have 50 ectos listed as a sell offer. Which is very annoying.

Agree with Lishtenbird .

What bother me much is those who don’t look at the price and just list items .