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Trading Company and the minimum price bug
A lot of us would like to see these too-low-to-fulfill offers removed. However, I am not sure it’s a good idea for ANet to spend the time or energy to make it happen.
First, it’s not a “bug” — all those offers are legit, as they were made before the current minimum price rules went into effect.
Second, it’s not at all straightforward how those offers should be treated.
- ANet would need to write and QA a script to ensure that only these offers are canceled, and it does not accidentally affect other offers.
- ANet would need to train their Customer Service team to address the inevitable deluge of questions about coin that people suddenly found in their pick up windows. This would slow down their ability to help people with other issues.
- Some people would claim that they got too little coin and would be frustrated that they had no easy way to show this.
- It’s possible that the script would take a lot of time to run and thus create various levels of confusion, since there would be a period of time in which some offers would be removed but not others.
- Plus, over time, as people notice these offers, they remove them on their own. There are fewer and fewer too-low bids in the system each day.
In short, it’s probably more trouble than it’s worth, since the current situation is merely annoying at the very worst.
As an alternative, ANet could make it easier for people to see if they have any such offers. Perhaps highlight them in red or orange or put an exclamation point next to them. This allows the community to manage their own queue while increasing the rate at which too-low offers get removed.
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Not related but I wanted to take advantage of the pic to bring attention to a little bug with Buy orders list: the highlighted (first usually) item shows “available” instead “ordered”.