Guild Wars 2

I ordered 250 of a certain weapon for salvage. I bid 1 silver, 6 copper per item. My order was accepted. I looked up the item within 60 seconds of placing the order and there was my order listed as the highest bid. However, when I looked under “my transactions”, it wasn’t there.

I tried exiting the TP and then coming back. I tried zoning out and back in. I tried leaving the game entirely (not just logging out) and then restarting. It still doesn’t show under my transactions. Once before when this happened, exiting the game completely and coming back fixed it, but not this time.

I then tried just ordering 1 of the items at the same price because it occurred to me that perhaps there was a cap on how many transactions can be seen in “My Transactions”. This one showed up immediately under “My Transactions”, so if there is a cap, I did not hit it.

I don’t know if it took my money or not. I do many transactions a day like this, often doing about 1 every 30 to 60 seconds over a period of several minutes and I don’t stop after each transaction to check and see if it gets documented under “My Transactions”. If it takes my money, but it doesn’t show up in my transactions, I could have losing bids that never cancel, never get filled, but take my money into a limbo from which it cannot be recovered. What happens when the price goes up to 1 silver 20 copper? Normally I would cancel my losing bid of 1 silver and 6 copper and get my money back but with this bug I cannot. I’m a small time TP user compared to some people. If this bug affects big time TP users, they could have 100’s of gold floating around the TP that they can’t get back because they can’t see their order to cancel it.

I made a new discovery. I did an experiment. I bid for 250 of the item at 1 silver, 7 copper (new highest bid on the item), bought one instantly, and then sold it to myself. I got the item just fine. Then, I cancelled my bid for 1 silver, 7 copper each, making the 1 silver 6 copper bid the max bid. This time when I sold the item I did not get it even though the only bids for that amount were made by me. Just so we are clear, there were only 250 bids at 1 silver 6 copper, which were the bids made by me. That means it did not go to another player.

Also, I’ve noticed that this particular item moved very fast before this issue. That is, if I bid for 250 of them then I might have 20 or 30 of them by the next day if I did not get outbid. Since this issue arose, even when I bid 1 silver, 7 copper, I only got the item when I sold one to myself. It makes me wonder if this is connected to the item. Perhaps the item no longer drops and some tag on it has changed. It might be that the original version no longer drops, but a basically identical item with a different name drops in its place. If removing it from the loot tables also removes it from some other table, that might explain the problem. Of course it would not explain why the problem occurred with one bid, but not the next.