Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

could someone explain me how this loongbow can be at 119 gold? actually, it cost more than 200 gold to craft and there are more than 10 lower than that. I just bought one at 105.

How come? The requested materials’ prices haven’t decreased.

I simply don’t understand.

Maybe because people haven’t bought the materials, but they’ve farmed them…had then just laying around. Some people have huge amounts of material they don’t pay for, so when someone puts one up, they can easily undersell because they didn’t pay for mats.

ok, but it doesn’t make sense that someone would undercut an offer at 470gold with another one at 220 and that the same day, 20 others of this very same item appear on the tp with a price always lower.
Don’t tell me 20 guys farmed something, crafted it and sold it 2 times less than its cost. That’s too much insanity.

Maybe so. I don’t know for sure. What other explanation is there? Gold sellers?

It now drops from Maw and Jormag’s chests, and ever since people have been farming the hell out of them due to the rares, quite a bit of it has been dropping.

if i had an explanation, be sure i wouldn’t ask for it here

Ursan.7846:

It now drops from Maw and Jormag’s chests, and ever since people have been farming the hell out of them due to the rares, quite a bit of it has been dropping.

that would explain it, ty

I’m really glad I read this.

That’s on my list of bows I’m considering getting and if I hadn’t seen this topic I would have assumed crafting it was the cheapest way and wasted a lot of time and money.

ovan.5947:

Hi everyone,

could someone explain me how this loongbow can be at 119 gold? actually, it cost more than 200 gold to craft and there are more than 10 lower than that. I just bought one at 105.

How come? The requested materials’ prices haven’t decreased.

I simply don’t understand.

People are dumb.

A lot of items are offered on the TP for 1c above vendor price. It costs 15% of the selling price to sell things on the TP. This is almost always more than 1c. Therefore people are paying the game to sell things for them.

“I can make 1 silver if I sell this to a vendor, or 86 copper if I sell it on the TP. Ok, TP it is!”

People are dumb.

tolunart.2095:

People are dumb.

A lot of items are offered on the TP for 1c above vendor price. It costs 15% of the selling price to sell things on the TP. This is almost always more than 1c. Therefore people are paying the game to sell things for them.

“I can make 1 silver if I sell this to a vendor, or 86 copper if I sell it on the TP. Ok, TP it is!”

People are dumb.

Not always. Using the TP in that fashion can be an On-The-Go form of vendor. It occasionally has uses, such as when you forget/too lazy to empty your bags before a set of group quest or dungeon runs. You don’t lose any money unless the item doesn’t sell.

EgonVenkman.1907:

tolunart.2095:

People are dumb.

A lot of items are offered on the TP for 1c above vendor price. It costs 15% of the selling price to sell things on the TP. This is almost always more than 1c. Therefore people are paying the game to sell things for them.

“I can make 1 silver if I sell this to a vendor, or 86 copper if I sell it on the TP. Ok, TP it is!”

People are dumb.

Not always. Using the TP in that fashion can be an On-The-Go form of vendor. It occasionally has uses, such as when you forget/too lazy to empty your bags before a set of group quest or dungeon runs. You don’t lose any money unless the item doesn’t sell.

The smart player lists the item at vendor price + 15% or more, if the item sells you at least break even, if it doesn’t sell you can retrieve the item later for a 5% upfront storage fee. If it sells at min price you always lose.

It takes ten seconds with a calculator to figure out how to price things properly, there’s no excuse for deliberately throwing money away, especially when it forces people actually trying to make a few silver to undersell items and lose money or keep things off the TP and out of other players’ hands.

Vendor Price x 1.16 = Minimum Auction Price.