Quote Originally Posted by NathanZ View Post
In the marketplace, you have to buy the full stack of whatever item someone is selling. If you just want 1 of a particular item but the only person selling it put 40 of them up, you have to buy all 40.
That isn't necessary. The technology to take/buy a custom number of items away from a stack already exists in the game. Why isn't it applied to buying at the marketplace?
Please fix this.

Thank you.
If you only need one of a particular item, and if it is something that isn’t particularly difficult to get, there is always the option of you going out and getting it yourself. For example, you need 1 Birch Log for something, but all the MB listings only have them in stacks of 10, 25, 50, 75, or 99. Well, you can always have your gatherers leveled to go and gather the item yourself. Maybe this isn’t a good example, because this is just the way I think about things (meaning, if I want something and it’s not available via the MB, I just go out and get it myself), but it certainly is an option that you already have at your disposal.

Another option is you could ask around in your FC or any LS that you may be in to see if someone in there is a gatherer, and tell them that you will pay them for their time to gather the 1 Birch Log that you want. If you’re asking for just 1, they may even have a spare and just give it to you free of charge. Especially if they have gatherers/crafters leveled and keep a stock of certain mats. If they choose to charge, however, you get what you pay for: you get your 1 Birch Log, nothing more and nothing less.

A third option is to just buy the stack of 10 Birch Logs, and sell the remaining ones you do not need. Maybe you can even list them in stacks of 1 or 3 to try and appeal to buyers that only need a few of the item rather than a larger stack. You can also benefit from this option in that people will generally pay more for less on the MB, so you could maybe rake in a profit from your investment of those 9 unneeded Birch Logs.

Maybe I’m just not understanding the big deal if you only need 1 of something unless it’s something tricky to get? What are the things that you typically want that you do not want to buy in bulk, but just 1 of? Are they just things that can be gathered relatively easy, or something else? If you come back to the thread, some clarification on the types of items you seek may help me understand your position.