Standard Tuning Crystals via Trading Post

Standard Tuning Crystals via Trading Post

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Posted by: Brigg.3961

Brigg.3961

I’m not sure if it’s just me or not, but I cannot purchase standard tuning crystals from the trading post. The ones that are listed are below 20c and I get a message saying that 20c is the minimum amount for purchase…?

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Posted by: Illconceived Was Na.9781

Illconceived Was Na.9781

Standard Tuning Crystals have a vendor value of 18 copper. They cannot be sold on the TP for less than 20c because that’s the minimum price that allows the seller a profit after deducing fees.

Prior to the ‘floor’ being added to the selling process, people were able to list buy orders for any price. Thus, there continue to be existing orders for less than the minimum.

While ANet could theoretically remove all those offers, it would be a support nightmare. It’s easy to write a decent script that would do this, but it’s very time-intensive to thoroughly test it to make sure it doesn’t remove any offers it shouldn’t. If it makes any mistakes, it would cause massive confusion among people trying to sort out what happened to their offers (“I didn’t get all my money back” e.g.).

In the end, it’s just easier to let those unfulfillable offers stand and let folks remove them manually.

tl;dr not a bug

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Posted by: nottsgman.8206

nottsgman.8206

if you put in 20c in the max price box, you can still click through to buy, and it will only cost you the listed lowest amount of 18c.
I did this yesterday with apprentice tuning crystals (I use them while leveling alts), and works with all other items that have a lower listed price than they ‘should’ have.

hope that helps

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