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

[Geobryn]

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I get your point but problem is, the UI is not ready for that. You can not easily manage what you are selling and edit it
for example lets say i have 500 iron ore and want it to sell it one by one, there is no room for 500 orders at retainer!
and even if there was, just setting up those 500 orders would kill me, not talking about changing price at them :P
heck even the 40 is painful

adding "bulk only" checkbox would fix that aspect and made it manageable, because i could change the price for 99 sell orders at once, there could be even limit to how many of one material you can put on auciton, like 1 30x stack or something, that way it would prevent "flooding", because i cant seem to find "pages" at auction, its 100 things listed the END. If 3 ppl put up 120 sell orders of 1's for 10 gill you wont be able to even see stacks of 99 if they will cost more, and clicking to buy 100 items like that is also kind of .... or did i missed some button ?

also adding buy orders to the game could clear the market a bit, because whats wrong with saying i buy 10 iron for 5 gil each, if someone wants fast money they will throw it at me -> win win situation

[Jinko]

I get your point but problem is, the UI is not ready for that. You can not easily manage what you are selling and edit it
for example lets say i have 500 iron ore and want it to sell it one by one, there is no room for 500 orders at retainer!
and even if there was, just setting up those 500 orders would kill me, not talking about changing price at them :P
heck even the 40 is painful

Agree a UI were you could put in X amount of X at X each and click ok and the system sort the bundles out and post them to your retainer atomically would be awesome.

Problem is SE never think of anything intuitive, even when they do it turns out cumbersome and convoluted, so I am not even sure I would want them to try this.

I'd sooner wait for add-ons and someone with slight common sense to design something instead.

Also agree with you about having selling limits, for example. iron ore:-

(BASICALLY A MAXIMUM OF 99 ITEMS OF ONE SORT PER RETAINER)
20 x single (ore of the same sort) per retainer - maximum (because we only have 20 slots)
4 stacks of 24 (of the same sort) per retainer
3 stacks of 33 (of the same sort) per retainer
2 stacks of 49 (of the same sort) per retainer
1 stack of 99 (of the same sort) per retainer

or any variation of selling 99 items in multiple stacks.

This would stop one single person (RMT) from flooding the market, it would also make people more likely to gather multiples of different items instead of non stop levelling off of one resource and crashing prices.

Buy orders :-

The above suggestion would also make buy orders more fair as once someone's stack of 99 sold, the next person in line would be up for grabs, buy orders suffers the same undercutting problems as buying singles from a stack, because the system is automated to buy the cheapest price a buyer specifies, so if 1 person puts up 40 stacks of 50 of 1 item for cheap they have basically screwed everyone else over.

Buy orders are pretty useless when it comes to small stacks, for the time it takes for the order to be filled you may as well have gone out and mined it yourself.