Undercutting

[Ayche]

One thing about the GW2 Trading Post that is the same as here, is that people will undercut by 1 currency just to have priority on selling.
It is the buy order part of the system that never made sense to me. Why would I ever make a buy order that is higher than a sell order? Surely everyone would just buy everything at the current lowest price, always.

[kaynide]

One thing about the GW2 Trading Post that is the same as here, is that people will undercut by 1 currency just to have priority on selling.
It is the buy order part of the system that never made sense to me. Why would I ever make a buy order that is higher than a sell order? Surely everyone would just buy everything at the current lowest price, always.

The thing there is, the buy orders are more like “I want this thing and here is the max I’m willing to pay for it”. The standing sell orders are too expensive for this person, or more likely they put in a buy order of like 1,000 things with plans to resell it for profit.

Your average player doesn’t check carefully and just buys or sells at the current order value. The guy making bank is flipping 1,000s of units.