Buying, selling, trading

robertlabrie · March 8

The guild traders announce all 3 but for 10 years all they do is sell. It'd be pretty cool if I had an additional 30 slots for "willing to buy" where I could choose an item, put my gold up for a desired purchase price, and have it out there for somone to tell to me via the trader. Might be a way to get rare items and don't get listed often.

As an aside, every time a trader says "Only the finest wares here" I'm reminded of an old Renegade BBS from the 90s. Thumbs up if you got that reference.

SilverBride · March 8

I don't see how that would work. As a trader I would not spend my time looking at multiple players' lists to find something to sell them. If they want anything I list they need to just buy it at my listed price.

CaiWenji · March 8

I miss personal stalls from games like Perfect World and Silkroad Online. I had a conversation about this with a cool person in the West Weald a week or so ago and they had a great idea: A housing NPC merchant where you can place and then through them list items for sale.

It sort of reminds me of Mabinogi. It will bring more people to visit houses and if it's a house NPC and not a chest or something it can even be monetized through the crownstore via different NPC styles and models that can sell our loot for us. I for one would love to check all my friends houses and see what they are selling in their house.

robertlabrie · March 8

SilverBride wrote: »

I don't see how that would work. As a trader I would not spend my time looking at multiple players' lists to find something to sell them. If they want anything I list they need to just buy it at my listed price.

As a trader, I would not spend my time looking at multiple players' lists to find something to buy. I guess such a feature wouldn't be for you. TY for feedback though!

SilverBride · March 8

robertlabrie wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

I don't see how that would work. As a trader I would not spend my time looking at multiple players' lists to find something to sell them. If they want anything I list they need to just buy it at my listed price.

As a trader, I would not spend my time looking at multiple players' lists to find something to buy. I guess such a feature wouldn't be for you. TY for feedback though!

I wouldn't either. If I am looking for something specific I check the Tamriel Trade Center website to see where it's for sale then go purchase it.

Jhava · March 8

Buy Orders would be interesting. It would drive weekly rent in the major hubs thru the roof. They would have the highest sell prices and the lowest buy prices. The flippers could margin trade easier, and the outlier locations would have to offer higher buy prices to draw people to them, along with the lower sell prices they have now.

rothan117 · March 9

Other MMOs with central Auction Houses have had "Want to buy listings". New World I know did, for example, you could put up a listing wanting to buy so much of a certain crafting mat at a set unit price. You put up the gold to fund the buys and other players could fill your order, when the number you want was filled, the listing went away.

bmnoble · March 9

I think it would only really work for crafting materials, consumables and crafted gear, maybe some overland gear, everything else is pure RNG whether you get your hands on it or not.

Problem with that is you just have to shop around on guild traders and you can buy those things at a relatively good price.

For stuff that relies on RNG, only thing such orders would work with are low demand low price items that people normally discard or set aside, instead of wasting a listing slot.

The really rare stuff however people are either going to sell it in zone chat to avoid the sales tax or just list it on a guild trader.

Then you have the issue of:

You list request for item X in X quantity for X price.

Someone else comes along and offers a tiny bit more gold than you.

Someone else comes along and offers a tiny bit more gold than them and on and on it goes until it is the same price tag as the ones listed for sale.

Of course someone could offer a high price to start with but even then you could still get someone who decides to offer more.

Would need to make sure the gold is deposited so there is no backing out of the deal to mitigate that.

cyclonus11 · March 9

SilverBride wrote: »

robertlabrie wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

I don't see how that would work. As a trader I would not spend my time looking at multiple players' lists to find something to sell them. If they want anything I list they need to just buy it at my listed price.

As a trader, I would not spend my time looking at multiple players' lists to find something to buy. I guess such a feature wouldn't be for you. TY for feedback though!

I wouldn't either. If I am looking for something specific I check the Tamriel Trade Center website to see where it's for sale then go purchase it.

Then TTC could update to include buyer listings as well.

Something I'd like to see is a bulletin board in towns (crafting areas?) where players could post requests for craftable items, choosing all of the traits, etc. that they need, all of the items that they need (including furnishings), uploading items and gold as rewards (items can include crafting materials) and creating a listing. Other players could then pull those "requests" down, which then become custom crafting quests. Turn-in could take place at the daily crafting job turn-in area, and the original player would receive the requested item in the mail. If the second player cancels the quest, it posts back on the board.