As title, the prices to list basic goods like anchor weed and other herbs on the auction house are TOO DAMN HIGH. I’m having to pay 475g to list 200 anchor weed. Unacceptable, especially considering I’m going to be undercut within 30s and have to repost my auctions again and again and again and again and again, losing my initial deposit each time.
Whoever tuned these prices never used the auction house for one second. But then that’s a theme for this expansion, isn’t it? Design interns and other incompetents who’ve never played the game doing all the tuning.
Filler text.
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It also hasn’t fixed the problem of people posting singular items…
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Don’t sell the herbs, make it into other things and sell them.
You can get it all for free.
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Why don’t you post the stack of 200 instead of 200 stacks of 1?
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Sell it in trade chat, or quitcha whining.
You want to sell 20,000+g worth of herbs, but you’re upset about the 400g loss?
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Well if you get undercut to the point you don’t sell at all, means your asking price is too high.
Deposit is refunded if it sells, so find the correct price range for your server, and the hot buying times.
Or you could resort to trade chat, skipping the auction house cut too.
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I OP is upset that if you want to sell optimally you will repost items, and thus losing the initial deposits. Do that enough and it hurts you. Of course, Anchor Weed has become more in demand so maybe keeping the auction going isnt so bad.
Did you even read what the op posted?
Stop posting stacks of 1 and it will greatly reduce the amount you pay to post.
I hate the stacks of 1. It’s unnecessary clutter.
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I have always hated this, where people list items one at a time (gatherables), and you have to clicked through page after page looking for amounts of 20-100 at a time. I wish that WoW would change the way the AH works with regard to this. I don’t know, I remember another game Tera online when it first came out and they had a really cool way of doing their AH. Maybe WoW should look toward something like that.
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If your materials aren’t being purchased promptly, your prices are too high.
Try undercutting the lowest price available by more than the standard addon amount, or a few copper. Cut it by a few gold per item and they will go instantly.
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Player housing with personal vendors would also be a way to help with his. 20 years later and SWG still had the most complex and robust gathering and crafting system ever. If you gathered extensively or crafted superior gear the server would come from far and wide to your little house on whatever far flung planet you put it on - just to buy your stuff.
With player housing in wow, if you had your personal AH and were religious in your gathering and supply replenish folks would find you and your anchor weed / herbalism stacks.
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The only thing I don’t like it that herbs are more expensive than potions/flasks.
Yeah they need to reverse this auction house listing fee on mats because it is way too much. If the mats don’t sell you can only list them a few times before you would end up losing money on them even if they do sell so it isn’t worth bothering to list them at all.
I started a new toon on a server where I had no others and the best way to start getting gold is to list mats on the auction house, but I couldn’t because I had to have hundreds of gold just to list them! I deleted the toon.
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I don’t have this problem. and this has nothing to do with Devs, this is players. Sorry, but your complaints should be towards the player not the game.
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Or we can just fix the system instead of telling him to not post what he wants.
Have items price be dictated by a 1 of said item, and you put up to a stack of 200 each. BUT let players break said stack into how much they actually need.
Let the seller set a price increase for breaking the stack up and a discounted price for buying the entire stack out.
I remember a time in guild wars (one of the best economies imo) where I would sell ectos at 4.2 plat each but would have 1000s due to underworld farming. It is a stack at 250, so people could buy 100 and they would spend 420 plat, or they could buy 250 and I’d give it to them at 3.8 per instead of 4.2.
WoW has lost any real sense of trading and now the AH is dictated by over inflaters on dead servers and bots/undercurrents on large servers.
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The listing price is a percentGe of the buy out isn’t it? What are you listing you stack of anchor weed for?
Just buyout whoever undercut you and relist it at your higher price.
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Depending on how much they undercut you by this is a horrible move. If they undercut you by a huge amount it could work. But if you are getting UC by a couple gold or less it’s a huge risk buying it out.
I did this with umbra shards and barely made a profit, if they didn’t sell I was in a huge loss.
Now on the other hand, if you figure out there snipe price just list for 1 copper under that and sell all your stuff fast (if it’s not too low of a sale price)