Specific amount of items available anytime soon?

I'm sick and tired of the MB players buying an entire listings for specific products and then lobbing it all back twice as expensive AND in 99-stacks. Imagine choosing desired quantity and paying only for items you want ....

People suggest this fairly often but it's not that simple. Buying in any quantity heavily favors buyers while hurting sellers. A random person selling a random item they got from a quick venture may not be affected, but the actual material suppliers sell things in specific quantities for a reason, and they don't want to be stuck with extra items any more than you do.

Just look at the real world. If I walk into a store I can buy a single candy bar, or a big bag of 30 candy bars, but I can't say "well I only want 10" and rip open the bag to take only what I want. I'll get kicked out of the store if I do that. The store and the candy company clearly wanted to sell things in those specific quantities. You may not like it, but that's not the store's problem.

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

If I walk into a store I can buy a single candy bar, or a big bag of 30 candy bars

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except you can't because they only have 99-candybar packs!!! Which is my problem exactly. I'd happily buy 10 of them individually :P

Consider it an opportunity for profit by going out, gathering the item yourself then selling off what you don't need to other players who also only want the small stacks.

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Originally Posted by HuaTuo

Imagine choosing desired quantity and paying only for items you want ....

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It'd be fantastic if the market system was only ten years out of date instead of twenty, yeah. Adding both the ability to buy partial stacks and the ability to create buy orders would be a humongous step forward- no more specifically tailoring stacks of stuff I'm selling using 15 retainer slots, can just put stacks of 99 up and let people pick off what they need.

But... Who's going to buy my 6x dye stacks? :S

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Originally Posted by Aurida

It'd be fantastic if the market system was only ten years out of date instead of twenty, yeah. Adding both the ability to buy partial stacks and the ability to create buy orders would be a humongous step forward- no more specifically tailoring stacks of stuff I'm selling using 15 retainer slots, can just put stacks of 99 up and let people pick off what they need.

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1.0 allowed buying partial amounts!
This was a deliberate change they did for ARR.

Also SE bring back my personal bazaar! ;-;

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Originally Posted by Canadane

1.0 allowed buying partial amounts!

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It also allowed repairing other peoples' gear, and those are about the only two things worth going back and retrieving. But also they should add buy orders.

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Originally Posted by Aurida

But also they should add buy orders.

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honestly this would be such a quality of life improvement.. Like I feel genuinely sorry for new people sometimes, the amounts of Gil for items can often seem staggering, if you need just this one Vitriol vial, and what you see is 99 of them for a quarter of a mil.. Some1 should put an advice for people to not bother leveling a crafter before gatherers xD

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Originally Posted by HuaTuo

Some1 should put an advice for people to not bother leveling a crafter before gatherers xD

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Better yet, level them all at the same time. It takes longer, but it's easier in the grand scheme of things.