IMPORTANT MARKETS!! GMs

[Cattibrie]

Again, I think you are misunderstanding.

I buyer still needs to have discretion in the purchase. You cannot do auto-purchase, it is unfair to the buyer and does not suite the buyers needs.

You instruct the market board to look for a certain item, max stack size and the max purchase price. An item meets your set criteria, a notice for the purchase pops up to confirm with your set criteria. You confirm the purchase and the item is bought at your specified criteria.

e.g. 4 listing of an item are on sale on the board.
Prices are 1000 (Uldah), 1005 (Gridania), 1020 (Limsa), 1025 (Ishgard).
I the buyer am currently in Ishgard. Which item should I purchase?
The smart buyer will purchase the item listed in Ishgard, your system will purchase the one from Uldah, and cost me the buyer additional Gil do to sales tax.

The purchase is based on your search criteria of the market board, which would include item wanted, max quantity wanted and max total price willing to pay for the item wanted.

e.g. 4 listing of an item are on sale on the board.
Same prices as before, then consider stack sizes. The Uldah stack is 90, Gridania is 30, Limsa is 99, Ishgard is 6. I the buyer needs 10, I would be purchasing the Gridania stack but your system would once again cost me extra Gil by buying wrong stack size.

Same situation as stated above.

Also, the system removes the buyers ability to say to him/herself, "I do not want to pay 20k per item, I'll go farm it myself."

There would be a confirmation with your market board search criteria, no actual purchase information except for the criteria you set. Item wanted, max quantity wanted and max purchase price. With this method, it would hopefully reduce or even prevent price fishing.

It also makes purchasing a hassle and guess work for the buyers.

How does it make purchasing a hassle. You set an item wanted, how many of the item and the max total price willing to spend and finds it for you and confirms purchase if found.

I put in a value equal to the sales history and nothing is listed below that number. I get told nothing is available at that price. Why is not explained, as you have stated the prices are hidden. Is the board sold out? Has price risen? I just do not know.

You can still see the items on the market board, just the item prices would be hidden. If no items meets your search criteria, that would mean the price is higher than you wanted to pay.

I wont deny that this would add steps to both the seller and buyer potentially, depending on how this was setup. The only people that would be truly inconvenienced would be those that try to undercut and destroy the markets stability by unnecessarily lowering item prices. With any market, prices will increase or decrease with supply and demand. But should not be sabotaged by people in a hurry or doesn't care about the stability of the market.