Guild Wars 2

Hey there! I’ve seen this for a very long time now but haven’t made any threads or anything by now.. I’m completely frustrated by the TP’s Listing Fee calculations.
So, for example, I’m selling a sword for 2 silver. It says the listing fee is 15 copper. And the projected profit is 1 silver 70 copper. It gets double the listing fee for the item, and it’s not just visual..
Is this intended, anything I don’t understand? Or it’s just a bug that’s been there for almost a year (or maybe since launch) and no one did anything about it?
Thanks in advance!

P.S. The picture is just an example, I get this with every item..

The total “tax” is 15%. 5% is shown as the listing fee, not reflected in the projected profit. The projected profit shows the sale price – 10% sale fee.

This is how it’s always been, and seems intentional. It could use clarification though, no argument there.

Thank you very much, it’s clear for me now. Totally agree that it needs a clarification.

Yes, the calculations are wrong. Somehow ANET thinks that the listing fee doesn’t need to be included in ‘projected profit’. Which makes me wonder what definition of the word profit ANET operates under.

ExTribble.7108:

This is how it’s always been

Actually, that’s not how it’s always been. It used to be worse. Back during early beta it just displayed the total listing price. No mention of the 10% sales tax at all, you just received less coin than you were expecting.

I see a lot of items for sale at a price where the projected profit would show a value only just above the vendor price. But when you subtract the listing fee from projected profit, you get a value below vendor price. I wonder how many of those people do this because they haven’t been paying close attention to what they are selling and thus haven’t noticed how the TP interface is lying to them.

Yes, someone will be quick to point out that selling that low can be a good idea if your bags are full as it’s better than trashing the item. But how often does that really happen ?
ANET is the only one with the data. If someone is selling an item at a price where projected profit is above vendor price, but projected profit minus listing fee is below it, it should be easy to tell why:
– If they only list a few items and their bags are full, it’s to empty bag space.
– If they list in that price range at any other time, it’s because they aren’t aware of the listing fee.

So, ANET, could you tell us what percentage of listings in that price range are obvious bag clearing, and what percentage are those fooled by the TP lying to them ?