Guild Wars 2

Total Money 20 silver split between 2 players

Buyer
1000 starting money
100 buys item
900 money left

Seller
1000 starting money
100 price=1 silver
5 paid by player
995 money after post
90 copper collected
1085 Money left

End Money 19 Silver 85 Copper

A deficit of 15 copper per 1 silver trade. This falls in line with the 5% listing fee + 10% tax on item sold, but the Projected profit would say 90c. You may get 90c upon collecting, but doing the math the profit would be 85c.

Your profit is the listed projected profit minus the listing fee.

I noticed this too, and I made a post about it awhile ago. I remember discussing this with my guildies as well, but nothing was ever done or said about it.

Galtrix.7369:

I noticed this too, and I made a post about it awhile ago. I remember discussing this with my guildies as well, but nothing was ever done or said about it.

Makes me feel better that other people can do math.

“Projected Profit” is actually “Sell Price” minus “10% Sell Fee” and does not also subtract the “%5 Listing Fee” when displaying “Projected Profit”?

So a player’s “Actual Profit” is really “Displayed Projected Profit” minus “Listing Fee” that must be manually calculated to determine?

I vaguely remember something about this being mentioned in a thread in the BLTC sub-forum regarding TP Taxes a long time ago. I hadn’t given it much thought since then, but now I’m a little interested in if this really is accurate to what is going on with Projected Profit.

LOL
This again.
There is no bug here. This is a bug subforum.
Also, there’s a subforum specifically for TP, and you can find this discussion over and over there, yet the TP is as it is for good reason.
You may take your offer out because you got undercut, and reprice it. You would be paying 5% + 5% of fees. Should the game do that math for you too, and cut the projected profit by 20% for you, so you see how much you’re going to be earning after the second offer? How many reoffers should it remember? For how long?
All this is talking for the pleasure of trolling. The moment you place your offer, that 5% is gone from your pocket, and there’s no good reason to make the game reflect that somehow. We all know that 5% is there. Knowing how much you’re going to collect is the relevant data, since the game is not really going to follow what’s the REAL PROFIT you’re going to make out of the market. It has no manner of knowing how you got the item, or how many times you have offered at what prices.
IF you want to play the market and get more accurate info, fee cut included, pick up a calculator. Leave the TP as it is.

Edit: Love those red circles…
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AeroJavi.1687:

LOL This again.

With this statement, none of the rest of what you type should be taken seriously, but I digress and shall entertain your words.

AeroJavi.1687:

There is no bug here. This is a bug subforum.
Also, there’s a subforum specifically for TP, and you can find this discussion over and over there, yet the TP is as it is for good reason.

This would either be a bug from a programmer’s stand point, a mathematical error, or they added the 5% listing fee after the projected profit was already programmed and then forgot to include it.

AeroJavi.1687:

You may take your offer out because you got undercut, and reprice it. You would be paying 5% + 5% of fees. Should the game do that math for you too, and cut the projected profit by 20% for you, so you see how much you’re going to be earning after the second offer? How many reoffers should it remember? For how long?
All this is talking for the pleasure of trolling.

This scenario is completely ludicrous. We are not asking for any thing like what you are describing here, and obviously that math does not equal 20% anyways.
Posted item for 1 gold, 5 silver down, removed, reposted at 80 silver, 4 silver down, item sold, another 8 silver gone, 5+4+8=17/80=21.25% and not your miscalculated 20%.

AeroJavi.1687:

The moment you place your offer, that 5% is gone from your pocket, and there’s no good reason to make the game reflect that somehow. We all know that 5% is there. Knowing how much you’re going to collect is the relevant data, since the game is not really going to follow what’s the REAL PROFIT you’re going to make out of the market. It has no manner of knowing how you got the item, or how many times you have offered at what prices.
IF you want to play the market and get more accurate info, fee cut included, pick up a calculator. Leave the TP as it is.

This is more statements that have no bearing on anything. The true profit is in the math, it can be calculated and never disputed. This isn’t about our laziness to do the math. I clearly show that I can do the math. The point here is that the people controlling an economy should know how to do the math, and realize that what they are giving us is wrong information. If you were in a business setting and your constant projection of profit was off by 1/17 more than what it should be, you would fired and the business would be in major trouble.