Guild Wars 2

Set a custom price for a common dye at 60 silver, fee was 3 silver, profit was reduced to 54 silver , down from the 57 expected.

set a custom price at 19 gold, fee was 95 silver, profit was reduced to 17 gold.
How long has this been going on ….. sent 2 in game bug reports with screen shots.

suggestions ?

There is a 5% Listing Fee and a 10% Sales Fee.
The Projected Profit does not include the 5% listing fee in its calculation.
Due to this, one can actually lose coin on the sale despite the Projected Profit showing…well, a profit.

To find out your actual Profit, you must manually subtract the Listing Fee from the Projected Profit to see how much profit you are actually making on selling the item.

Yeah, it’s pretty silly and illogical that Projected Profit does not also take the Listing Fee into account when displaying your Projected Profit. It isn’t actually showing your Projected Profit for the entire transaction.

• 10c – Item Vendor Value
• 11c – Buy order for item
  Sell item to Buy Order
• 1c – Listing Fee
• 1c – Sales Fee
• 10c – Displayed Projected Profit (does not include listing fee)
• 9c – Actual coin gained from selling the item

Result: 1c loss on the sale over just vending the item for 10c.

Again, Projected Profit does not include the Listing Fee, only Sell price minus 10% Sales Fee. In the above example you are actually paying 1c to get rid of the item instead of vending it.

Scale these values higher and the loss is even greater.

• 99c – Item Vendor Value
• 1s – Buy order for item
  Sell item to Buy Order
• 5c – Listing Fee
• 10c – Sales Fee
• 90c – Displayed Projected Profit (does not include listing fee)
• 85c – Actual coin gained from selling the item

Result: 14c loss on the sale over just vending the item for 99c.

Before listing an item, be sure to manually subtract the Listing Fee from the Projected Profit to find out the real amount of coin you’ll get from the entire transaction.

• Sell If:
  Projected Profit – Listing Fee = Higher than Vendor Value

• Vend If:
  Projected Profit – Listing Fee = At or below Vendor Value
  This is if you have no interest in salvaging blue/green items for Luck or Materials.