Dear SE, please apply a sales tax to adjusting prices in markets

Dear SE,

yes please. It would save most of your customers a lot of nerves, and thus probably help strengthening your subscription base as well, if the handling of the market and economy would be a bit more less alienating to serious players.

Please help by getting rid of 1 gil undercutting (and most likely also some RMT-driven activites) by applying the 5% market tax not just to initially listing an item, but also to adjusting the prices of already listed items.

People would just resort to direct selling to skip the taxes completely. You already have a tax to sell items in the first place, so pushing a tax to readjust prices would just make undercutting more or less stay the same; if I am selling an item for the first time on the market, I can choose to just sell my item 25% less than the current cheapest seller and either force that player to eat a tax to readjust prices while also losing out from lower price plus the sales tax or said player can just remove the item from the market, wait a bit, then reenter the item at a lower price.

We already have people using the party finder as a way to advertise goods and skipping the tax, so your idea would just make people do that even more.

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Originally Posted by SolArisa

...applying the 5% market tax not just to initially listing an item, but also to adjusting the prices of already listed items.

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So simply you want "listing fee", I don't agree any listing fee as it will only make casual players harder to sell their item. ^^;

IMO If the reason was 1G under cutting, why not just suggest not allow relisting?
The seller need to buy the item back when he wants to withdraw(only charge the tax),
then it is same result (-5% relisting) but also create a record on the history. ^^;

Seriously, I believe everyone will undercut more if more restrction is added on selling.

No, just no.

If anything, they should remove the tax that already exists that does NOT benefit neither buyer nor seller.

I'd still undercut you by 1 gil, wouldn't change anything.

So you want a tax to prevent the free market economy from functioning properly. The cheapest item always sells first. Just because everyone lists their item for 10k doesn't mean you have to as well. I'd list and buy the one priced 9,999 everytime. Just like I'd shop at a 99 cent store before a $1.00 store every single time.

Oh god, not this crap again - this has been discussed here a GAZILLION times and so far NOBODY yet proved / argued sucessfully benefits of relisting tax.

You have no time or will to re-check and change your prices all the time? Well - BOOHOO!! Why should be those who can limited because of you?? Simply - no. It's fine as it is and market is so large that you can always find an area which you can "dominate" (at least for a while). Your sugestion is similar to imposing fee on running high level dungeons so other people will not run it all day because you have time to run it only once or twice a day - silly ...

Why didn't you put your price point at a more attractive level than I could match? You know what that 1 gil pays for? Advertising essentially, I'm at the top of the list.

This is how it works, adding on MORE fees will just damage the market and make people not want to use it. Think on your prices more, don't just throw them up there for whatever.

You already have retards selling items on the market at a loss to them. Add in more variables and they just might implode.

Here my protip. If you don't wanna to buy with taxes on it, but it in same city-state. If you see the Flames sign, buy it in Ul'dah; Twin Adder sign, buy it in Girdiana; or Maelstorm sign, buy it in Limsa Lominsa. But yes people will still get taxed when they sold it to other person. So in basics that person still lost the profit of selling it while other person get their tax-free items.