Smitch_59 wrote: »

Of the guilds to which you currently belong, how many require payment of mandatory dues?

I was kicked from the only one that asked for gold weekly. I was expected to pay 40k in sales or a 5k donation. I recently joined a PvP guild though and I had no time to go round Craglorn harvesting mats to try and sell. I then stopped altogether when I heard that the leadership where selling the gold that we made for the guild.

None of my guilds require dues or fees. Only two try for traders, though.

My trading guild now requires a one-time $5k for permanent access to the guild bank (to discourage bank theft). If you are active with the guild, though, this fee may be waived. This was something its leadership argued over for quite awhile, but decided was necessary. Everyone can sell on the guild trader, though, regardless of their bank access status, and is actually requested to sell whatever they can (but no minimums required).

The other requests donations for the guild trader. If you don't donate, you're still welcome in the guild and won't be kicked! They're debating requiring donations of $1k per week for bank access. To be honest, I don't care either way, I haven't even looked in the guild bank to see what they have. I am only in it for the active dungeon groups.

Its only 5 k a week on sales or donations which i make in the blink of an eye.

I run a trading guild with no dues, but I do request that people buy raffle tickets if they want to have a good kiosk. If we don't have enough in the bank, we won't get a good kiosk, it's that simple. Sales taxes do not pay for a kiosk.

I don't know whether people who complain about dues/raffles are just expecting a free ride whilst GMs stump up their own cash for a kiosk or what, but basically if you want your trading guild to have a good trader that costs several hundred thousand or even several million a week to hire, then you need to contribute financially towards that. Or make do with an 'out in the sticks' trader and not moan about it.

I belong to 2 other trading guilds that have dues, and am more than happy to contribute - perhaps because I know firsthand what is involved in getting and keeping a kiosk.

I'm in 2 trading guilds, one pvp guild and 2 other guilds that are more community based more than anything else.

As much as I'm too poor to sub to a guild I can understand why certain ones charge. I'm lucky enough that the 2 trading guilds I'm are are established enough on the server to be able to survive mainly off of their members sales

None.

I look for the ones who offer the services I want with the level of commitment I am willing to give.

I said none but to be honest there is ome where I pay indirectly by the sales I have since it is a trading guild. I have no problem with the 7-8% from my sales to go to the guild since we have to hire the guild trader wich is very expensive, but also I sell everything under a day. To be in the guild you need to have sales of 50k/week, but there are weeks when I didn't do any sale and weeks when I did sales of 1-2millions and I still have a good rank in the guilds. Also there is the option to donate for the trader but this isn't mandatory.

In my opinion, it is simple, you don't have enough sales to sustain the trader, it means that you don't really need to be in that guild. In this guild that I am there are players with lower sales than 50k/week but they are kicked only if they are inactive or they never had good sales.

All in one I never paid directly and I will never pay since there are no guild upgrades lile in other games are (guild halls in guild wars for example)

I'm a member of three Trade Guilds, and they all require weekly "dues".

However; I'm ok with it.

I move quite a bit of product through them, buy almost exclusively from within those same three Guild Stores, and net around 20k every day or so because of it. SO "donating" 2-5k to them to help them keep their Trader Stalls is really not an issue when they allow me to build my wealth with such relative ease.

Mettaricana wrote: »

Seriously what are people selling 500k a week?

If one has been collecting for example gold tempers from release on its easy to sell 500k a week just by selling small part of that;)