Suggestion: Help Sellers and Buyers with 1 simple tweak.

[Maeka]

How many times has this happened to you?

You go to do a Grand Company Supply/Provisioning quest, or a quest for the guildmaster, and you find yourself short one single item that can only be gotten in one specific place of the world (namely, somewhere miles from where you currently are)?

So you go to the Market Board, and you search and you find a few listings for the item you need, and...

They are all in stacks of 40-99.

You don't need 40. You need one.

Please consider allowing buyers to specify how many items out of a stack they wish to buy. This would help buyers a ton.

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[Maeka]

How would this help sellers?

If I'm a seller and I go to sell, I don't know, Yew Branches on the Market then I have to sit there going "Hmm, how big of a stack size should I sell?"

I obviously don't want to sell anything higher than 10 -- nobody needs more than 10 yew branches for anything unless they're grinding craft XP on a recipe that takes them.

I could list singles, but that'd be time-consuming.

With this tweak, I could just throw all of them up and let the buyers buy as many as they want until they're gone.

The one-and-only con to this idea is that a seller might put a stack of 99 Iron Ore up and someone might buy 42 of them and they've got 57 left and maybe some buyers might actually want 99. But I don't really see this being all that big of a problem; and if they don't, he can always refill the stack and stick it back up.

I'd rather sell a partial stack than sell none at all because nobody needed the amount I listed.

[Mandudez]

Leave it up to each seller to have the option to either sell the entire stack as a whole or open it up to buyers to buy bits and pieces or the whole thing at once. Win/win/win I'd say.

[Jinko]

Agree being able to buy from a stack would be great but there are a lot of people on here with a stick up their ass which oppose such thinking.

FWIW 1.0 had this feature and SE removed it and IMO its made the MW worse because of it.

[Gelesto]

I don't mind how the MB works atm, I treat much like everyday supermarkets i can buy a low quantity of items at higher price or i can bulk buy for cheaper individual prices.
scenario: I need 10 Fleece for my craft i can either buy the 10-20 stacks at a higher price or i can buy a stack of 99 for lower individual cost per item but higher overall cost.
Makes the market seem more like shopping after all everyone likes a bargain, but if everything was the same price for the quantity you wanted its takes the fun from the nice bargains you can sometimes get

[Maeka]

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In my experiences, it usually works the opposite.

Scenario: Steel Scalemail is the GC Turn-in.

So I check the Market. No Steel Rings up. That's OK, I got Bomb Ash. I can make my own; just need 6 Iron Ore for 3 Steel Bars.

I see several stacks of 99 Iron Ore for 200gil per Ore, which is 19,800 gil for the whole stack. But yet... I don't want 99 ore. I only want 6.

I scroll down and I see 800 gil per ore, for a stack of ten is the next-best deal I can find. That's 8,000 gil. Almost half the price for a tenth of the ore. Uh... no.

[ImDingDing]

In my experiences, it usually works the opposite.

Scenario: Steel Scalemail is the GC Turn-in.

So I check the Market. No Steel Rings up. That's OK, I got Bomb Ash. I can make my own; just need 6 Iron Ore for 3 Steel Bars.

I see several stacks of 99 Iron Ore for 200gil per Ore, which is 19,800 gil for the whole stack. But yet... I don't want 99 ore. I only want 6.

I scroll down and I see 800 gil per ore, for a stack of ten is the next-best deal I can find. That's 8,000 gil. Almost half the price for a tenth of the ore. Uh... no.

So what did u do finally? bought the 99 or 10 set or none of them?

[JeniLinsky]

So what did u do finally? bought the 99 or 10 set or none of them?

Trot my happy butt out to Horizon, equip my miner suit, and mine my own.

[M60-Maniac]

what i would have done is teleported to limsa and gone to bsm/arm guild supplier and brought them for 18 gil a piece.....

[Gelesto]

what i would have done is teleported to limsa and gone to bsm/arm guild supplier and brought them for 18 gil a piece.....

^ this man right here, know your market before you buy or sell