I’m confused. How does this affect OCD players? Is it because the numbers aren’t multiples of 5 or some even number? Is it because the window has more of the same item but with differing costs?
Sometimes I will undercut my own listings by one silver, three silver, two more silver, and then 17 more silver. Something like that. Always by some prime number of silver and sometimes gold if it’s not significant. And then the number of items is usually one-five away from a perfect stack, so the auction house will show uneven amounts at uneven prices (even though it is all arbitrary and we use a base 10 number system which is a boring composite number).
I imagine that it is not at all effective, but I like to imagine that there are lots of competing prices on my somewhat underpopulated server. Wild is a very bored agent of chaos.
I thought if there is 3 items for 10 silver, 2 items for 11 silver, and you try buying 5, it will automatically charge you 52 silver.
That is correct.
To borrow a phrase from PVP, capitalism happened in a capitalistic (virtual) economy.
I don’t own or sell anything related to Shadowlands, but I will undercut others’ listings without hesitation if I think it will make the items I list sell the first time around. I hate having unsold items mailed back to me and having to relist them again and again. The new AH is pretty much perfect as-is as far as I’m concerned.
How about no.
That’s precisely what buy orders can help to fix. Today the only way to really sell items on the auction house is to undercut the lowest auciton and prices will only and always go down. With Buy Orders, not only you can set a “market cap” for how low an item can sell, but they will also enable another way for lazy auctions to sell directly to buyers, making it easier on people who still want to put a lower bid.
It’s basically a win-win situation.
Let the market be controlled by the players. No caps.
That cap is actually set by players through Buy Orders.
Caps are for commies.
Capitalism is the best way.
This is basically the foundation of Stock Market dude. (A pretty basic interpretation, btw)
Easy solution to not be undercut : Stop overpricing your stuff.
I undercut by min 50% only because when I put on the AH it’s because I want it to sell. I don’t care about ‘market value’ , if I overprice like most people I end up just getting my items back instead of getting them sold.
Again , simple solution to stop undercutters : stop overpricing your stuff.
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Stop trying to bring communism to wow. Communism doesn’t work.
Lol i was actually thinking about the wow economy…
What it needs is some Quantitative easing. ROFL
It needs inflation… Lots and lots more inflation…
Actually it needs the opposite, the prices have to balance out to actually reasonable prices not the overpriced garbage that it is currently.
Can’t wait for one of the most popular EVE scamming vectors to make it to WoW.
So much news headline drama potential…
So much ignorance in one post.
Even outside of the real world examples, there is EvE, probably the most capitalistic MMO ever created, and it has had buy orders as part of it’s market structure forever.
They’re called AH bots, friend.
The main problem is that WOW is not a commodity based economy.
Sure there are some things like enchants and flasks, but not at the level where a buy order system would actually make a difference