Auction house needs to be fixed

[MaiyaBeaumont]

i think certain nubs... probably from ps3 but not pointing any fingers, are selling items on AH as exact price you can sell them to a NPC..-

Your statement that "I think certain nubs...probably from ps3" is HILARIOUS. <.<.....

I'm a legacy player, who played on PC, now moved to the PS3. I am VERY frustrated at the people selling things at the NPC selling price. Ever think that those people are just new to the game in general?

[Emyle]

I'm surprised so many people are agreeing with step 1. As a seller, I think it'd be a huge annoyance to list a full stack of x item and have people pick out individual items from it (meaning I'd no longer have a full stack listed).

It would also destroy any chance of selling a stack at a time for a bulk discount. If you want only a few of an item, you're probably gonna have to pay more per item for the convenience than if you bought a large amount. At least that's what I've always seen happen in both game economies and the real world.

[Aramis604]

If I want to sell a stack of something, I want to sell it as a stack. Period.

A thousand times this!

There are a multitude of reasons I may choose to put a stack of items up instead of selling as singles. Often times it simply does not make economic sense to sell certain items as singles; normally crafting materials, etc. The amount of time and effort it takes me to harvest ore, or make ingots, or leather, or growth potions, etc, cannot be recovered by selling the singles unless I jack up the price.... at which point no one is going to buy the material for totally understandable reasons.

Buyers always have the option of farming a material they need for themselves too.

[Emyle]

^ I think Aramis above me may have said it better than I did.

But if people can buy singles you will sell that faster than an entire stack, even if people are only buying a few at a time. Assuming you have the lowest price ofc.

That's not necessarily true. If someone buys 15 items from my stack of 99, I now have an incomplete stack of 84 items. So I either need someone to buy my incomplete stack (my personal experience is that this will only happen if I undercut significantly or I'm the closest to having a complete stack), or I need to sell all 84 remaining items individually, as opposed to a complete stack, which only requires a single sale. If you're selling an in-demand item in a complete stack, and pricing appropriately, which means you're undercutting the people selling singles, stacks tend to move much more quickly than if I tried to sell 99 singles.

Obviously, not every item is best sold in stacks, but that should be up to the seller to decide how best to move their merchandise.

I guess I should ask, since I don't know, do we have the option to break up our stacks and sell individual items currently?

[Aramis604]

I guess I should ask, since I don't know, do we have the option to break up our stacks and sell individual items currently?

Yes, when you place the item up for sale if it's currently in a stack one of the options to select is how many of the stack you're selling.

You can also split the stack in your inventory and select to sell the split item as opposed to your stack from inventory.

[Avengedangel]

Because they would be the only ones that... uhh, are not experienced with MMO's and probably think that the "Sells for" value on the item description mean how much you sell it for on the markets... lol... I always occassionally find things that would be worth 300-400 gil each being rarely put up as 1 gil.. I would assume its these people because PC players have generally played a MMO before. Seriously, go look up the allagan pieces... why are people selling them on auction... i really dont get it..


as for things selling more to the npc than market selling, i do, i constantly check out if there are any being sold below price. And vendor them, even though its helping me i would really like to see people kick the habit of doing this though.. For their sake.

Ever consider that some people that play MMOs on the PC might just decide to play the PS3 version as well (or instead)?

[DarkWalkJRB]

I think a simple fix would be to remove the default price when you want to list something up on the Market Board. If no price is set by the system then the seller will need to enter a price and that'll get the newer players to actually look at what they're doing instead of them just spamming their buttons to get their stuff listed. Otherwise I think the Market Board system is working just fine.

[Lghikas]

I don't like the giving the buyer the option of just automatically being able to buy singles from stacks I put. Now I'm not opposed to allowing sellers to say check a box that allows the buyers to buy singles or a limited number from said stack.

As for the default prices, I'm all for either getting rid of them on the auction or upping them. I would prefer a big overhaul of changes of default prices. Some of the other problems people are having is just selling stuff to the merchants is just not an option with almost everything sell for so little.

[Sousoulsu]

What?
Why are you not Okay with buyers buying singles?
if anything,your stack will sell faster.

[Drako]

In 1.0 the seller could choose if they want to sell the stack as a whole, or allow singles to be bought. They just need to implement that in 2.0. That would make everyone happy. The peeps that want to sell a stack for X amount can, while the others that want to sell singles out of there stack can.