Market: Purchasing multiple singles or partial stacks

I've been trying to level up a crafting job and have been faced with a problem. I need to buy many bat wings or imp wings as crafting ingredients and over 200 players are selling them one at a time in the markets. This makes buying them a chore as each time I have to reopen the window for the next purchase of another single wing; Sometimes the window won't show anything to purchase because there's a minimum time I have to wait between each time I pull it up.

Please allow players to buy from multiple sellers simultaneously by keeping the window open after a purchase is made instead of forcing players to refresh.

Yes. This and the option to keep the HQ filter on permanently.

Agreed, the Market Board could definitely use a few tweaks here and there.

Fourthed.

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Ditto. The item list window needs to remain open and simply remove the item that was just purchased. If the list cannot be updated on the fly, then just leave the window open with the same listings and force close the window if an attempt to purchase an item results in an error due to the item being unavailable. Then at least we can go down the list manually and buy items without having to re-query the server for the most current listings.

Exactly:

1. Keep the window open after purchase
2. Allow multiply purchase of the same item - via tickboxes for example

I more often have the opposite problem... that I need one, or five, of something, and everyone's only selling stacks of 99. Le Argh.

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Originally Posted by JeniLinsky

I more often have the opposite problem... that I need one, or five, of something, and everyone's only selling stacks of 99. Le Argh.

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Is it not the case that you can sell multiples of the same item via the same retainer? Perhaps players need to start splitting up the items their selling or SE could make it so it could happen if it can't as it is?

With there being a tax on the items you sell via the market, I can see a reason why there'd be a minimum amount I'd like to sell at a time.

I like this feature and I wanted this feature to be implemented as I had similar problems that the OP stated. However, I see some problems that might occur if implemented. The list of items available in market is refreshed every time the item is clicked on the search results list. So if somebody listed something (or somebody bought something), it will not show up unless the list is refreshed. The time it may take to select the items you want to buy might be too long and another player might've already bought one the item you selected. Therefore, an error would occur and you wont be able to buy the unlisted item. Frequent refresh of the list might also not be a good idea as it might overload the servers.

The issue with needing the list refreshed exists anyway. Normally, someone will bring the list up, look at it for a moment, decide if it's worth buying something there, and then select an item and buy it. That's already enough time for someone else to have bought some of those items, or for something to have been un-listed. If you try to buy something, but it's no longer there, an error box pops up saying it's unavailable. It's relatively rare, but I've seen it happen before.

Since that issue both already exists and already has measures in place for handling when it happens, I don't see how this request would make it any worse.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

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Since that issue both already exists and already has measures in place for handling when it happens, I don't see how this request would make it any worse.

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I've never really managed to have that happen, but should it happen with multiple items selected (should the feature be implemented) I'd hope it'd just give be the total for what is still available within the selection and let the player buy it right there. Should be just as fast as before, given that the time for a player to find the deals they want varies.

I am not so much to allow a player to clean the market by quickly select everything in a certain price range.

As for the stacks, it's sellers choice to decide amounts. People can decide sell small stacks or huge stacks :) . Otherwise everything would be sold at the lowest price possible

Maybe add an option to let seller decide if he allows partial or not. but even then I still fear the bots

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Originally Posted by Thaliss

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Maybe add an option to let seller decide if he allows partial or not. but even then I still fear the bots

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I'd totally get behind that. I like the idea of being able to sell partials as well as set stacks depending on how I want to sell my items.

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Originally Posted by Niwashi

The issue with needing the list refreshed exists anyway. Normally, someone will bring the list up, look at it for a moment, decide if it's worth buying something there, and then select an item and buy it. That's already enough time for someone else to have bought some of those items, or for something to have been un-listed. If you try to buy something, but it's no longer there, an error box pops up saying it's unavailable. It's relatively rare, but I've seen it happen before.

Since that issue both already exists and already has measures in place for handling when it happens, I don't see how this request would make it any worse.

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This^ !!!
Cuz if you were taking ur time checking off the boxes, comparing prices, deciding whether to buy nq or hq. Someone else could have bought some of the items u were going to buy.
Since the list updates everytime u exit it and re click it .