Partial Buy for Marketplace

[kcj]

Partial Buy: By that I mean the ability to buy some rather than all of a stack. It's frustrating from the perspective of a relatively new player to need 1 and have to buy 99....assuming I can even afford it!.

As many other games have already implemented this feature, I'm wondering why this one hasn't.

[Thurmnmurmn]

Partial Buy: By that I mean the ability to buy some rather than all of a stack. It's frustrating from the perspective of a relatively new player to need 1 and have to buy 99....assuming I can even afford it!.

As many other games have already implemented this feature, I'm wondering why this one hasn't.

On the opposite end (using osrs as an example), it's just as frustrating to see only 1 thing sold out of a stack of 99.

As someone who frequently buys small amounts of mats. I sure as heck don't want this.

[Avoidy]

I wish it would happen too. In another game I played that does this, you could just list, say, 257 of an item, and people would buy it from that stack as they needed it. It's really stupid to have hundreds of a material and you've gotta basically waste 10 slots listing the same item in groups of 20 or less. I feel like there's probably either a technical limitation stopping them from implementing it (game is famously held together with prayers), or a financial incentive pushing them to keep the system bad on purpose (less efficient marketboard listings = wasted retainer space = maybe people will buy more retainers).

Anyway, this place being what it is, I'm sure we'll hear from people who think it's a good thing to have to tediously list 10 stacks of 10 of the same kind of item and force people to buy all 10 when they only want 3.

[Bun_Vivant]

No. Because letting the seller control the quantity allows sellers to offer "bulk discounts." That's the only way sellers can differentiate themselves other than by price.

Now there is a problem on some worlds with people cornering markets in some items and then offering only large stacks at high prices. World travel --very easy to do within a data center, just go to one of the Original City aetherytes -- sometimes allows a buyer to get around such tactics.

[Eastwall]

Oh boy, this needs to be implemented. I am too lazy to break down my stacks. I just throw 99 foods on there

[Rongway]

You could just buy the stack and resell what you don't need in smaller stacks at a significant markup.

[PercibelTheren]

Yes, please. I would also really like if they implemented something RIFT has. People can list that they want to buy something and you can fill that order and automatically be mailed the money. Even if you only fill it partially. It's really convenient.

[Jojoya]

You're going to find people very divided on this. Some want it, some don't.

Personally, I'm in favor of it as long as there continues to be a restrictive limit on how many active marketboard listings a character can have. If there were no limit, there wouldn't be as much need for it since players could break down their stacks as many times as they want and still list all of what they have.

So far, SE hasn't shown any interest in improving the marketboard beyond merging world marketboards into data center marketboards if they can overcome some technical issues. I imagine that would happen before they would consider implementing partial stack sales.

[Haru304]

This would make selling on the market board extremely tedious. I offer bulk discounts to make a tidy profit. If you want something in a specific amount, ask around. People know people who know people. If people can just choose to buy a % of something I put up there, then it entirely ruins pricing strategies.

[kcj]

You could just buy the stack and resell what you don't need in smaller stacks at a significant markup.

You're assuming....
1. That I actually have the money to do that repeatedly. As a new player, I'm at about 150k in gil.
2. That I have plenty of slots for selling stuff. I've only got the 2 retainers that the game gives me, so that's ... 40 slots?