Guild Wars 2

I find that the global economy is nice to have, although it coupled with people selling items for 1c more than vendor price and the hidden 10% tax are really messing with prices. (People sell items as if they can make money because it will sell for 3c more than they bought it for but they really loose money to hidden fees.)

How have people not noticed that the entire mechanic is specifically designed for players to want to spend money buying gold? The Trading Post has hidden and prohibitive costs, traveling is incredibly expensive, repairs cost more than your gear did, items do not scale in sell price, and switching between tradeskills costs ~40s at lv. 400, far more than you can possibly make when you swap over to it.

The entire game is focused around needed to spend the money obtained through trading Gems for Gold. Suprise!

Drintar.1246:

souldonkey.9534:

Blighton.6425:

I put it up blindly, if somebody can use it, good for them. I will continue to do so.

Also its better then wasting the time hunting down a vendor when you in the middle of nowhere

This is really stupid because you’re breaking the market. If people like you keep doing this no one can ever make a profit because no one can ever put the same item up on the TP for a higher price. Is it really that difficult to up the price of what your selling a little?

Hell, you don’t even have to do math. If you list something that vendors for 50c and the listing fee says it’s 3c then just ballpark that the 10% fee is 10c. It’s obviously high and that’s fine. so now you’re at 13c in fees (it would actually be 8c) so round that up to 15c. List the item for 65c. Someone will still buy it but now you’ll actually make a profit on it and people that want to list the same item can match your price and also make a profit.

As it stands now, I have to either match your price and lose money or list it at a higher price than yours and never sell it. Listing items at 1c above vendor is lazy, wasteful, and it breaks the economy.

Or you know you could BUY his low priced stuff and relist it at a higher price….just sayin

The issue here is that at this time, a gold is an incredible effort to make on the Trading Post. Tradeskills do not allow for money to be made from them because the items that they create a overflowing the market.

Also, in case you didn’t know, while relisting items may work well on a smaller auction, here the Trading Post is WORLD wide. This means that he would need to buy and re-list ~900 Pillaging Staffs before he could acually sell them. While he is trying to sell, there would be ~100 more listed b/c the market started moving. On a server wide TP this cannot happen and the market becomes profitable.

Sadly ANet enjoys this because it keeps players buying gold because its nearly impossible to make decent money on the Trading Post without a large amount of time/effort.

I too am reciving this error and it is really delaying my progress through the game and crafting having to find my own mats because I cannot sell items to get money. I can however buy items.