I made a huge blunder with a guild store listing, but everything worked out

Left4Daud

This is just a story about a careless mistake that made me feel awful. However it ultimately turned out postively, and I feel so relieved that I had to come here and post about it.

Yesterday I got invited to a trading guild after trying unsuccessfully to sell my wares all day in zone chat. It's been a while since I've been in a trading guild, as I took a few months break from the game. Obviously I came back to find I had been kicked from my old guilds for inactivity. It was no biggie I thought, I'll just try to move a few wares through zone chat to build up my savings and finish where I left off buying home storage.

Well, selling in zone chat can be kinda rough some times. I ported from zone to zone to zone multiple times a day, listing my wares in chat and being met with mostly dead silence. I got a few whispers, but mostly those people didn't want to commit to a sale. I wasn't being outrageous with my prices I don't think, it's just the people whispering me were mad at me for following market trends. For example, one player was getting on me for listing an Exemplary Harmony Ring for 50K when he felt it should only be worth 500 gold (the in game tooltip listing). Another player scoffed at me for trying to sell the full Hollowjack Motif gold book for 100k, saying that it was only worth 10k. Things like that.

I had enough with sitting in loading screens porting all over Tamriel and not making any sales, so I started to look for a trading guild. To my surprise I got invited to a guild in one of the more popular spots on PC NA, and was eager to port there and start listing my wares.

A little too eager.

In my haste and ignorance I ended up listing a stack of gold items for the price of just one. Oof. I didn't realize it at the time either, I just went about my business for the next couple of hours. I got some chores done, and came back online to do some riding training when I was pleasantly surprised some of my items sold. I was like, well, let me get to the bank and pull some more of the gold mats to sell. And that's when I couldn't find the mats. So I checked my characters, home storage containers, and bank a few times before the realization hit me.

Don't tell me I listed that whole stack of gold items when I only meant to list one...

Yeah that's exactly what I did. The PC NA calculations (using TTC) totaled the items at being worth over 500k gold, if I would have sold then individually. I promptly felt so foolish and bummed out. How could I be so careless? I searched through 60 pages of trades on the guild sales history listings and managed to find the player that bought my items. Thinking I had nothing to lose, I sent them a mail explaining the situation and I didn't know what to expect. I honestly thought they would just ignore me, or tell me that it's too bad that's just how it goes sometimes.

But, that noble player actually agreed to let me off the hook. They sent me a COD with my stack of items attached in return for the gold they originally paid. I was so relieved! I left a few details and descriptions vague just to keep the story about the general experience but if that player happens to come across this and see it, I just wanted to say thank you again. They didn't have to be so kind, especially since the entire situation was the result of my carelessness. I am thankful that things turned out in a positive light, but I still did learn a lesson from this event. Take your time listing at those bloody guild traders! Also it never hurts to reach out to a fellow player and appeal to their humanity, I didn't have any faith it would work and I was pleasantly surprised.

So that's my story, have you ever made an expensive trading mistake in the game and how did things work out for you? Thanks for reading.

tl;dr - Accidentally listed a stack of gold items worth over 500k in guild store for the price of one item. Reached out to the buyer and they returned my items in exchange for their original fee.

MuchShock

Never happened, eso community is only toxic, rude, and never tries to do the right thing!!!!

I like hearing these stories of decent human behavior.

Left4Daud

MuchShock wrote: »

Never happened, eso community is only toxic, rude, and never tries to do the right thing!!!!

I like hearing these stories of decent human behavior.

I agree! We hear about the toxicity so much that, at least for me, it had an effect on my expectations of other players. Or what another player would be likely to do, or not do in this situation. It's refreshing to be reminded of the other side, like you said.

Shezzarrine

I did something similar, I posted an attunable jewelry crafting station for 27.4k instead of my intended price of 274k. It sold immediately and I found the guy is in the guild I listed it in and sent him a message asking if I could pay him 60k for it back (it said he had been offline for 4 days so he obviously isn't a very social player). He never even messaged me back or anything, but I understand that it was my fault for that blunder anyway.

Glad yours at least worked out haha

Left4Daud

Shezzarrine wrote: »

I did something similar, I posted an attunable jewelry crafting station for 27.4k instead of my intended price of 274k. It sold immediately and I found the guy is in the guild I listed it in and sent him a message asking if I could pay him 60k for it back (it said he had been offline for 4 days so he obviously isn't a very social player). He never even messaged me back or anything, but I understand that it was my fault for that blunder anyway.

Glad yours at least worked out haha

Thanks for sharing, that is unfortunate and I hope you weren't too hard on yourself. I do realize that I did get way luckier than I could have, or even should have in this situation.

VaranisArano

Some players are pretty great! Kudos to that player.

I owe my fortune in ESO to the guildmate who bought my columbine, mailed it back, and kindly informed me that it sells for more than 20 gold a piece and maybe I should try using Master Merchant?