Guild Wars 2

What the bug is, is the trading post is charging 20% sales tax. In the case of me buying dyes at 5 silver and ten copper and turning them around at 6 silver and about 20 copper I was losing. My estimation of money made was 17 copper each. I found this by multiplying 6.2 by .15. So in reality the sale tax was .93. Which means I’m making 17 copper for a 1.1 silver increase. Although, I was calculating my gold loss out of this process. On every transaction I was losing 14 copper. Now I was dumbfounded and thought it was double listing but infact was being charge 20%. From the difference between 6.2 and 5.1 with a 20% sales tax is a tax of 1 silver and 24 copper. So every sale is shorted 14 copper which makes it unprofitable. It actually makes selling anything on the trading post unprofitable unless you find it. Which is pretty lame. Though this may be A-nets intention to prevent merhanting, it is also them being dishonest about it being 15%. I do trust them though because they have never shown a reason to not trust them whic is why it is a bug.

I was attempting to make more gold off of merchanting items off the exhange and sell them at higher prices. What I thought to have found was that Arenanet was preventing users from doing this by charging a sale fee. I kept doing it to find that there is actually a bug. When you list a mass quantity of items, for me it was unidentified dyes, at anything over 20 copper listing fee it will double charge you for the total listing fee. I know I was selling 3 gold worth of dye for a 1 and a half gold profit and actually was goiong negative half a gold. I could not figure it out for the life of me until I realized it.

Can anyone tell me exactly what all the fees are though so I can do it mathematically. Otherwise, I am sure it is double charging if not triple charging the listing fee. I do believe there is a sales fee also.