Concept and mechanics of a "Buy-Order" side of an AH

[Wulfies]

So there have been several threads posted that wanted to setup "Buy-Orders." So Lets create a thread for this rather than try to mix it in with other threads. I was guilty of this, so I will make my own thread. The following is my 2 gil on concept and mechanics:

The way I would tackle this would be to allow you to put in an order, example "I want 20 Iron Ores and I will pay 1 gil for each. so the order will look at 20 @ 1gil. Now once this is posted people can look in the "Buy-Order" section and see if there is anything they want to sell at the current prices.

Let me preempt some of your counters with this:

1) Yes, there will be idiots wanting to buy a pair of Vanya Pants for 1 gil. At-least you can point and laugh and move on down the buyers.

2) Yes, I do want people to be able to fill partial orders, so John can fill 7 of my 20 Iron Ore and Jane can fill 3, Fred can fill 2, Tom can fill 1, etc, etc, etc.

3) There should be a tax, make it payable at the end, as each partial/full order is completed and paid buy the person who put the order in.

4) When the "buy-order" is placed, pull the money from the buyers gil at the time the order is placed plus the tax

5) No, I do not know what a good "tax" rate should be for these types of transactions

6) No, I have not made up my mind if there should be a time limit on the buy-orders as they have as auction sales



Comments/Suggestions?