Not being able to buy single items from a stack on the marketward.

[Felix7007]

This is working as intended.

It is specifically designed so that one player cannot monopolize the market by listing all of their items individually and preventing others from seeing the higher priced items.

This is an idiotic comment and is not well thought out.

Right now people who DO sell single items for the convenience of the buyer, take up more listings than someone selling a stack. Also, items are not listed by total price so your comment is absolutely false and the people who like it are blind for doing so.

[kimoi]

It's up to the sellers. If you feel there's a deficiency in the market because nobody is selling small stacks, then go sell small stacks. You just might make some money.

[Felix7007]

Let's say I am a miner and I am selling silver ore in the Markets, a popular leveling recipe requires 2 silver ore at a time, therefore it is optimal for me to sell in 2 item stacks.

Now we are hit with multiple limitations:

1. The max amount of items we can sell at once across both retainers is 40, therefore I cannot sell my entire stack of 99 in this optimal buying/selling quantity.
2. I cannot sell anything else as all my retainer space is consumed by these smaller stacks, any other items I may want to sell cannot be sold yet, meaning my retainer / inventory space is constantly filling up.
3. Our retainers only allow us to sell 20 item stacks each, meaning that I have to sell 20 on one retainer, 20 on another.

If you are adamant about not changing how items are sold in the market wards, remove the limit of items sell able on our retainer's.

Or... rethink your original plans and allow people to buy as much as they want from a stack.

THIS RIGHT HERE EXPLAINS THE PROBLEM. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS PROBLEM, DO NOT COMMENT.

[inrainbows]

Just give sellers a toggle to allow items to be sold individually and put an icon next to those stacks that can only be bought as a stack.

Simple.

[Felix7007]

Actually forget it. If everyone wants to spend more gil for less items, that's fine by me. It will cut my farming time by at least 99% because now I know I will get the same amount of gil for 1 item as opposed to selling 99.

[DnK]

You also don't go to the store and buy 2 slices of bread to make a sandwich.

If I go to the store and want 10 apples, but the minimum purchasable quantity is 1, I don't go get 1, go to the cash register, pay for it, and repeat this process. I'll buy 10 apples at the same time.

If I'm a store and I'm selling a total of 10 bushels of apples in quantities of 1, I don't put individual prices on all of them and force the customer to only bring 1 to the register at a time, pay for it, and then go back for more.

If I want to sell 20 Mickey Mantle cards on Ebay, I can sell them individually, but still have them contained under 1 listing. I don't have to make 20 separate postings cluttering up everything.

[ssppiikkeeyy]

i agree i dont wanna be buying 99 when i only need 1 item

[Mishaela]

This is an idiotic comment and is not well thought out.

Right now people who DO sell single items for the convenience of the buyer, take up more listings than someone selling a stack. Also, items are not listed by price so your comment is absolutely false and the people who like it are blind for doing so.

I am very curious what market system you have been using since the one I have been using all week lists things cheapest to most expensive.

THIS RIGHT HERE EXPLAINS THE PROBLEM. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS PROBLEM, DO NOT COMMENT.

I know this whole concept is super complicated and hard to grasp, but how about just, like, not trying to list so much at once? Problem solved!

[Jinko]

If I go to the store and want 10 apples, but the minimum purchasable quantity is 1, I don't go get 1, go to the cash register, pay for it, and repeat this process. I'll buy 10 apples at the same time.

If I'm a store and I'm selling a total of 10 bushels of apples in quantities of 1, I don't put individual prices on all of them and force the customer to only bring 1 to the register at a time, pay for it, and then go back for more.

If I want to sell 20 Mickey Mantle cards on Ebay, I can sell them individually, but still have them contained under 1 listing. I don't have to make 20 separate postings cluttering up everything.

This right here !!

People need to stop comparing this to a shop or supermarket, its a frikkin market, most markets sell by weight or quantity. (they don't force you to buy their whole stall)

[Nushidorei]

I know this whole concept is super complicated and hard to grasp, but how about just, like, not trying to list so much at once? Problem solved!

That isn't solving the problem at all, some people are leveling multiple gathering / crafting classes at once or changing the items which they are gathering / crafting frequently. At the moment, there is a massive amount of people leveling up, and therefore the competition is high. Being forced into splitting our stacks further to sell for optimal qualities is abysmal when we only have forty slots as an whole.

I am currently only playing this game for about 4 hours a day; even so the items I am getting are quickly clogging my inventory and my retainer, the limit to the amount of items I can sell at once is forcing me to regularly delete or vendor items which could be useful for the community.