Suggestion: Create market board listings to purchase an item - to help fix economy

[MahouShoujo]

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The important detail is that you deposit the payment when you make the request. If the buyer cancels the request then they get their money back. The details are not that important. For example, there could be a restriction for a minimum listing time. Perhaps there's a penalty for canceling the request early.

If two crafters make the requested item then one of them will end up listing their item for sale just like they do today. At first this may seem like a problem created by allowing purchase requests, but it is actually not. Before this system is implemented, both of them are just making complete guesses about what to craft and hoping somebody will buy it for the price they set. The only difference is that with a system in place to buy items, they would know what somebody was willing to pay.

[Nicobo]

The important detail is that you deposit the payment when you make the request. If the buyer cancels the request then they get their money back....

Then there will be many crafters compliain, after collecting the mats and crafting the requested item, the request was "early pulled" by someone...^^;

Another situation is, if you request something rare with lower price than what I am listing,
I can buy all the mat. off and make you even harder to get this item.
It is not hard to be done in a small server.

Then when someone set the request price wrongly, like giving all his gils, can he contact support desk and seek for assistance?

How does it fix the economy and what is the problem needs to be fixed?
This function only enforce bottom price to item, also allowing rich ppl or RMT purchase all item wihtout camping the MB. The casual players willl never be able to buy a really hot item. Bcoz everyone will counter offer everyone for really hit item.

[MahouShoujo]

Then there will be many crafters compliain

Let them complain

If you request something rare with lower price than what I am listing, I can buy all the mat.

I don't think this is a relevant issue.

Then when someone set the request price wrongly...can he contact support desk and seek for assistance?

Nope. Can you do the same for selling items today?

How does it fix the economy and what is the problem needs to be fixed?

Reread the topic post.

The casual players willl never be able to buy a really hot item. Bcoz everyone will counter offer everyone for really hit item.

The casual player is free to buy a for sale item for the listed price which may be slightly more than the market price.

[Dzian]

The important detail is that you deposit the payment when you make the request. If the buyer cancels the request then they get their money back. The details are not that important. For example, there could be a restriction for a minimum listing time. Perhaps there's a penalty for canceling the request early.

If two crafters make the requested item then one of them will end up listing their item for sale just like they do today. At first this may seem like a problem created by allowing purchase requests, but it is actually not. Before this system is implemented, both of them are just making complete guesses about what to craft and hoping somebody will buy it for the price they set. The only difference is that with a system in place to buy items, they would know what somebody was willing to pay.

could be as easy as requiring the cash to be on your retainers and having the purchase orders be set up through them. so if someone fills the order the funds are taken directly out of my retainers cash flow...

it kinda worked like that even in 1.0 you could tell you're retainers you wanted to buy an item and how much you wanted to pay for it and then anyone who had one for sale could either sell it to your retainer for that price or list it themselves for whatever price they wanted.

there's items i'd like to buy but are either incredibly rare or incredibly overpriced that they never sell to anyone