Market Board Tax Changes

[Michiko]

the small gil sink is about 5% of your purchase price. if my math adds up. I bought an item for 2mil yesterday, I had to pay 100k gil on top of the item. I was rather put off myself. Can I afford it? Clearly.

Does it surprise me no..seeing how much abuse world visits have done to market boards. Just seems another attempt by the dev team to fix the problem they created by punishing everyone instead of just putting a stop to world visitors liquidating complete market boards to resell elsewhere.

[LalaRu]

Look at the bright side: you no longer put your retainer on the "wrong" city!

[Cithaerias_pyropina]

Look at the bright side: you no longer put your retainer on the "wrong" city!

That's not what changed with this tax change. The change was buying things from the marketboard, not selling them. Ishgard markets on Cactuar is still 2% reduced.

[Fynlar]

That's not what changed with this tax change. The change was buying things from the marketboard, not selling them. Ishgard markets on Cactuar is still 2% reduced.

The whole point is that if you're trying to sell lower level blacksmithing products in Ul'dah, you might not see as many sales as you would if they were being sold in Limsa instead because that's where the BSM/ARM guilds are. Some people prefer Limsa as a selling location regardless of the product because it's just that convenient of a hub location compared to the other two starting cities.

Now though, it apparently won't matter where you sell from, because if buyers are getting taxed no matter where they are, the buyer's location won't encourage/discourage sales.

Hence why I'm looking for an answer to my earlier question -- does it not even matter anymore where the retainer is based from? Because it's kind of a deprecated "feature" now, if so.

[Lolli282]

Now though, it apparently won't matter where you sell from, because if buyers are getting taxed no matter where they are, the buyer's location won't encourage/discourage sales.

Hence why I'm looking for an answer to my earlier question -- does it not even matter anymore where the retainer is based from? Because it's kind of a deprecated "feature" now, if so.

No not really, I used to have a retainer in Limsa, Gridania and Uldah bc to me they are the larger markets now I have them in Gridania (my house location), Ishgard and Crystarium (because I like them).

[deadman1204]

This actually hits the rich WAY more than the poor. All those 1million+ purchases result in alot of gil going away. I think its a great move.

For those whining that "its SE's fault for not dealing with it" - guess what? They ARE dealing with it.

[ElazulHP]

This actually hits the rich WAY more than the poor. All those 1million+ purchases result in alot of gil going away. I think its a great move.

For those whining that "its SE's fault for not dealing with it" - guess what? They ARE dealing with it.

Most rich people have ways to acquiring gil fast so it really doesn't matter to us. I'll make millions upon millions a day if i'm actively crafting. Though what it will impact is overall prices on the MB. You're going to see prices go up from omnicrafters buying mats and then passing the tax onto you guys in the final sale.

[LalaRu]

At this point, next step is make the market board datacenter-wide. Huge QOL because today we all jump multiple servers for checking it but restricted to ours when selling.

[MaiSuu]

I know this has kind of passed by now but, I thought it'd be worth to give a visual I've just encountered.

If you're on a budget, there's no way this is new change is going to help you save. 33 extra in tax, regardless of where I am, infact it only goes up as prices increase.

Who was this supposed to help exactly? At the very least, put the actual tax into the base price, so it's not a surprise when i click on it to purchase.
Can we get it changed back, I'm already poor as is, this is NOT helping.

Hopefully the image works, still first time trying this kind of inserting image thing!
(INCASE it doesnt show the image, the imgur link is below)

https://imgur.com/a/80VDMsz

[LalafellDown]

It’s probably to help pay for the servers.