Guild Wars 2

When selling high valued items (anything usually over 1 gold) the listing fee says that it will deduct, say, 23 silver. The projected profit, however, is 46 silver under what you listed the item for. Is anyone else having this issue?

There is a 5% listing fee that you pay up front when posting an item, and a 10% sale fee when the item is actually sold. They don’t show this very readily, and it causes players to come to the forums and complain about bugs that are really just poor communication between the game and players. It’s not a bug, but it is something they should change, since clearly (this being approximately the 7,649th thread about this) it is the source of a lot of confusion.

Da Sonic.6521:

It’s not a bug, but it is something they should change, since clearly (…) it is the source of a lot of confusion.

Don’t forget the incapability of many people to do even the simplest search for “TP” in the wiki, or ask anyone with more than 2 days in the game about the matter

AeroJavi.1687:

Da Sonic.6521:

It’s not a bug, but it is something they should change, since clearly (…) it is the source of a lot of confusion.

Don’t forget the incapability of many people to do even the simplest search for “TP” in the wiki, or ask anyone with more than 2 days in the game about the matter

Yes, it’s readily available with sources not directly tied to the game, but the format they show it with is confusing when you look at it the first time. It tells you there will be a cost to post it, and then tells you the projected profit, which are two separate things displayed like they are the same thing.

It would be like (this does not happen, to clarify) if your armor cost 2 silver a piece to repair, and when you went to repair 4 pieces of armor, it told you the cost was 2 silver, then took 8 silver when you repaired. Anyone can let you know that’s the cost for each piece, but the way it was displayed was clearly subpar because it is not immediately apparent.

The wiki isn’t tied directly to the game?

/wiki <search term>

It’s not in the game, yes, but it is tied directly to the game.

Rajani Isa.6294:

The wiki isn’t tied directly to the game?

/wiki <search term>

It’s not in the game, yes, but it is tied directly to the game.

I get that, the point is there are ways to display this information while on the trading post itself that would not require having to /wiki (a simple sale fee indicator, and taking the listing and sales fees into account for the expected profit would alleviate all of these questions).

You can always /wiki pretty much everything in the game, but that doesn’t mean you should expect that to be the standard for telling the players information.

The way it is now came out of thunderous complaints that the original system said NADA about taxes and listing fees. It’s still, in my far from humble opinion, slimey, but since I know it’s a lie, I work around it and accept this as an advantage I have over the poor souls who don’t.

I’m not saying it should stay that way, but.. Well…