Why don't we have the ability to make specific number purchases from the market?

[Felis]

A player can place a buy order that a potential seller can use to "sell now", if they want (can be used by buyers to try and get things a bit cheaper - seller gets guaranteed money right away).

Hmm, yes
A buy request would be nice in the MB. 1.0 had it too.

[Moonleg]

This is something I particularly enjoy about the Commodities Exchange in WildStar.

My experience with WildStar's system back at launch was this:

I want a full stack of, say, Titanium. Titanium is currently listed at 50 Credits a piece.

Buy 99. "That many aren't available at this price."
Buy 50. "That many aren't available at this price."
Gah, buy 5! "Bought."
Buy 5. "That many aren't available at this price."

WildStar's attempt at making sellers anonymous was TERRIBLE, because buyers ended up sitting there trying desperately to figure out how much was actually for sale at the shown price, with NO IDEA what the next price jump would be. Had someone listed at 51? 60? 500? Would you be able to buy as many as you actually needed?

I would much rather scroll through the Market Board here and look for a listing with a number of items close to what I'm after.

[Naunet]

WildStar's attempt at making sellers anonymous was TERRIBLE, because buyers ended up sitting there trying desperately to figure out how much was actually for sale at the shown price, with NO IDEA what the next price jump would be. Had someone listed at 51? 60? 500? Would you be able to buy as many as you actually needed?

That is one tiny problem easily solved by either fulfilling as much of your order as possible at the price you requested, or simply telling you exactly how many there are in the error message ("There are only XXX available at this price.").

[BreathlessTao]

Indeed, I really would like to have the option to buy just as many as I want, not however many the seller put up. If I need just 3 something, I'm not gonna buy a stack of 99 or 50 or 20 or even 10 of it and massively overpay - because that's what that boils down to, huge prices for too big amount of things one doesn't need. And if someone does go ahead with buying the stack, they are gonna relist the leftover, usually not for more than they purchased it for, so even if not actual undercutting, it's more competition there (and THAT certainly brings faster undercutting).

Consider it this way too though: when do you have more money? If you shift maybe a fewer number of things than you wanted to, not for the money your whole supply would have made - or if you sit on your whole supply only hoping for the sale which never happens? I'd say the first option wins. And it doesn't even make more competition by making the buyers immediately relist the amount they don't need. Heck, I wouldn't even mind if there were separate prices for single item vs whole stack (something that'd probably get shot down by "ps3/hardware/network limitations", but still), but yeah, the market has definitely been missing this option since ARR launched.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

In general, it probably relates to RMT and SE trying to cut down on their taking advantage of things to produce their gil.

[Ashkendor]

I like it this way. I make a fortune selling things in small stacks at a slight markup. :3

[Sylve]

I vote against being able to buy part of a stack.

Lots of people only need 1 or 2 of any given item. Others need large stacks. Some only need small stacks for s specific task.
When making a purchase, i choose the one that is closest to my needs, not necessarily the cheapest option for a single purchase.

If i could just buy one item out of the 99 stack, I'd only ever choose the cheapest possible option, which would just drive the price down harshly for that item for ANY seller.
Right now, I can carve a niche in the market by selling small stacks in the same way others can have a niche by selling massive stacks.

Its a good system and believe it or not, it promotes a healthy economy.

[Waeksyn]

So, everyone that wants this must be able to walk into their local grocery and buy one bun out of the package of 12, open the box and get a cup of corn flakes, etc.

The seller decides what he is selling. The buyer can choose to buy or not.

At least you can buy a stack and then resell what you don't use. Try that with the rest of the box of corn flakes!