Hey, I'm the owner of PEA and I'd be more than happy to update PEA if buyout prices are ever released.
Bottom line is that the ingame market screen is convenient but totally insufficient when buying medium/big items. You need to have the actual transaction data to determine what auctions matter and what ones don't when determining the price. For example:
1: Auctions that were bought out have a very good chance of being priced too low. If it's priced too low then it's bought out right away but is that a fair representation of the actual value of the item? Hell no!
2: I would need to see the number of bids (and biddERS) on the auction. If there are many people bidding then I KNOW that this is the correct price. If not then It's not a representative price.
3: Unsold auctions also give a ton of info on the price. It says that this item sat in auction for a week at this price and not a single person bid. It means that this price is too high. In the ingame market screen this data is entirely lost.
Also, without full data available, how will I be able to figure out of there's someone trying to game the price!!?? This has been done (successfully) in the past and will again in the future if there's no way for a person to tell the difference. How do I trust the aggregate prices spoon-fed to me by MA? What have they done to discard the fraudulent auctions??
These are huge problems in the current implementation. If there was a stock market that made you guesstimate the sale prices NOBODY WOULD INVEST.
Travis
Thx to join this discussion (already many have kicked my ass!!!!)
In this case i m point the attention about the tier stuff.
A korss 400 (L) tier 10 it will be more expensive than a Korss 400 (L) tier 0, ofc. How damn we axtrapolate those data??????? The auction screen don t show the tier, than for the 2 guns you will obtain a medium price that , ofc, will be not indicative , es
korss 400 (L) tier 0= 100 %
korss 400 (L) tier 10= 300 %
but at that point cause we cannot discriminate our price for korss 400 (L) will be around 200%.... so wrong for both the case.
I know that many are not interested about PEauction, but this service for each trader is essential!!!!!!
Moreover are numbering the websites that use the peauction calculation for many tools..... how it s supposed to get good information from those tools if the data orgin are incorrect?????
Like i said i don t think MA/FPC are working against, i m just thinking that they didn t consider this, cause they are busy with CE2, updates etcetc.
I think there is nothing wrong to let them know that will be nice have their attention about this issue.