Request Board

Would it be feasible to get a off shoot of the market board that alows orders to be filled?

Say I want an item that is not currently listed as avaible on the Market Board. I could list my reward and someone who finds/crafts/gathers the item for me could collect it for the reward listed.

In my opinion (cause its my idea) it would be great way to foster trading in community without having people drum down prices on the Market Board.


TL;DR

A request for certain items for a specified reward. Much like a levequest.

So basically, you want proper Buy Orders.

To which I say, "yes please, and while we're at it can I buy less than the full stack from a sell order". Economically though, buy orders are extremely useful to set price floors for what the market will bear, instead of undercutting into oblivion, and as such are sorely needed. Frankly, buy/sell orders are the bare minimum a market should provide, and I would also like things like graphical buy history and...well, just give me EVE Online's market tools. That would be nice.

While I'm not sure that the game needs the ability to buy partial stacks from the boards, I would absolutely LOVE to see retainers able to both buy and sell. Its one ability that has been missing in the game that it really needs.

You're mistaken if you think that will set a floor on board prices though. I've seen people selling stuff for 1 gil on the boards, when simply selling it to their retainer would have netted them 35. Granted, in this day and age that difference, 34 gil, is pretty much meaningless, you would think that the "dump on vendor" price would be the floor on the boards, not 1 gil. I really don't see a buyer section on the board bringing the floor up.

A trade channel for chat/advertising would be nice too

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Originally Posted by Roth_Trailfinder

You're mistaken if you think that will set a floor on board prices though. I've seen people selling stuff for 1 gil on the boards.

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I said "extremely useful", not "will absolutely", but point taken, people can always be idiots.
That said, if sell orders are auto-matched with buy orders (as a proper commodities market should), then it does become a floor, at least until all buy orders are filled. By auto-matched, I mean if a sell order is posted for x/each, and there exists a buy order at y/each, if y >= x, the buy order is fulfilled directly from the sell order. A proper market should make this process automatic and transparent.