Guild Wars 2

Dishconnected.8360:

Trevien.9236:

The 15% is not the problem. The minimum amount is the issues. It should be raised to 20% above vendor value instead of 1 C above vendor value.

The waypoint cost could also be lowered.

Raising the minimum amount will cause people to “profit” and then it will cause the price of EVERYTHING to raise in a correlation that is impossible to compute but it’s generally known as inflation.

It may give you warm fuzzies but then you’ll be asking for 30% while having solved nothing overall, unfortunately.

Actually the only thing I am looking for is for the TP to be useful and not be used as a garbage bin for people too lazy or too busy to locate a vendor. Right now it is useless for selling crafted items or random drops. When more money is made vendoring these items than actually trying to sell them on the TP, this makes crafting worthless.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/10g6m6/do_people_completely_ignore_the_tp_listing_fee/

We can see there that people use it to just empty bags

Maxster.4521:

Trevien.9236:

The 15% is not the problem. The minimum amount is the issues. It should be raised to 20% above vendor value instead of 1 C above vendor value.
…

And how exactly it will solve problem of oversupply?

I do not believe that I was talking about any issue other than the minimum listing amount needs to be raised to account for the 15% cut that will go to the trading post. Over supply on the AH is another issue entirely and one that I do not really care about. As it stands more profit is made from vendoring items instead of posting them on the trading post do to the fact that people do no pay attention to the cost that items are put up for. Raising the minimum post amount to 20% above vendor value will allow people to actually make money when posting items. As it stands right now I would rather vendor them.

Other options would be to limit the number of items people can have on the AH (not an idea I like but would prevent people from using the TP as a 2nd bank as I have heard is done). Or taking a larger cut when unsold items are pulled off the market, like 30% of list value (again, not an option I like, but targets the same group of people). Personally, I think raising the minimum amount is the best option… it will not fix the real issue with this specific concern, again, I do not care about what people consider oversupply, which is that people just blindly put things up for minimum amount as a form of storage while out doing other things.

I agree with this, I actually laugh when I see requests for items below vendor sell value, or even items that cannot be bought on the TP like lemons (which are of course account bound).

I also think that the minimum sell value should be raised to 20% above vendor value. Right now with the posting fee, the transaction fee and the fact that everyone and their grandmother is posting things 1C above vendor value means to actually use the TP you will lose 15% of potential profit. Granted this is mainly do to people just not paying attention to what they are doing.

The 15% is not the problem. The minimum amount is the issues. It should be raised to 20% above vendor value instead of 1 C above vendor value.

The waypoint cost could also be lowered.