Speaking with deliberate obscurity and ridiculous analogies does not prove intelligence or superiority, it actually displays rudeness. Instead of a clear conversation people are left wondering what is actually being said. Probably the majority of users of this forum (and the game) do not speak English as their native language. Could you therefore please make statements short simple and avoid obfuscation. If you feel I am also falling into this trap, trust me it is deliberate, to prove that you are not the only person capable of words with 3 or more syllables.
Now if you want to play an RCE then you have to accept the trading practices of real life, real trade, and sadly speculation and manipulation are always going to be there. Outright market manipulation is already against the EULA and should be reported. Re-selling is not generally market manipulation it is simply a player trying to take a fast buck. If they over-price their items, they will not sell, they will lose their fee, and the fee therefore works to help discourage the more extreme attempts to speculate.
You're wrong about my posts, I'm not trying to stand out with intellect at all, I'm just answering the nonsense properly. If I had written go fuck, a moderator would clean the message before it was read. On the contrary, read his comment again. I just don't care about this handful of people who seem to be thinking about something more.
In most of the topics, people speak half-heartedly, half out of self-interest, and the other half out of ambiguity. After all, it is a game that we are constantly studying. And on this topic, no matter how many suggestions are given as an example, they will not be vetoed by the game owner. Maybe that's why my comments seem similar to you... I'm just dissatisfied with all this and this is my personal position.
An auction is a commercial bidding tool, but when there is more than one item, this tool loses its meaning, because no one bids for a particular item when it is repeated 100 times, you will rather choose the cheapest one, right? Therefore, it is meaningless for most items. It would even be much more logical if the rare items that are repeated are on a waiting list - without knowing how many more there are or if there are. And there is no place for items like skins and oils.
Even store owners determine the price of an item according to the Auction trends, so you have more options, such as changing the prices according to the current trend without fees or commissions. But you also fall under this dependence, because no one will buy an item if your prices are higher than the market and even more so when it is much more convenient to buy quickly and easily from the Auction .. you would even lose a regular customer if he sees that your current price is 2% higher.
And what is my option as a new player who sees no point in buying a shop at the end of Calypso, where there will be 2 visitors a year.. chat channels?
Even if we assume that all this is within comprehensibility and everyone uses it for its intended purpose, in fact the Auction is used to buy items at 100% to be resold in a chat channel, shops or again in the auction at the lowest price. I don't like the last, because it undermines the mark-up for which I play twice. This directly affects my trading, which goes through the Auction and I pay fees for each item.
The game currently launches resellers the most, and mostly those with secondary family accounts benefit, who sweat or refreshing the AH button in the auction for 100% prices all day and spam the trade chat while the same person plays with their main account. Here only MA can tell their number by comparing it by IP address, but they are handcuffed, because those players can immediately give the data to their wife, husband, children, father... this not only reflects on the market at the moment, but again, it directly affects my trading and discriminates me against the basic rule of one account.
Not to mention how many people are used to this trade to the extent that they have 'professional webs' for sell/buy list in Wix or on a simple list of excel in google and this is normal? No, it's not. In civilization, taxes and fees are paid, and just to avoid such unfair practices, before you become a legitimate trader you are bound by a bunch of legal frameworks. So in order to have a store in Sweden, I have to have status there, and if I buy goods from China but sell them in Sweden behind commercial law, there will probably be severe penalties against me, right? Here the opposite happens, those who bypass the rules take advantage of the weakness of the game the most. Many things can be improved in the game, it is an ongoing process, but the trade must be considered and restructured.
Even if I had all the teleports and the shops were right next to them, it would still take me hours to find what I needed. And this is also not normal for a planet like Calypso. Even in Monria, a tower takes more than an hour... and as I mentioned in the previous post, there are only 6 new shops for the whole planet, it looks like a joke in the picture of 10k players.
All trade in the EU does not work as intended, rather the negative sides are much more than the idea that the MA has built, and if this works for you then you are from the minority with deep pockets that do not mind waiting 2 months or more about selling an item.
With rough bills, on average for a profit of 200 ped, I pay fees in the auction around 1000 or more. So we are not talking about the fee of 50 pecs, but from the final fee that is taken even if the item is not sold. Because the majority has adapted to family accounts for spam and recommend this adaptation in any such topic. This trade is not normal and needs to change to be more competitive with resellers. The least they can do is refund the fees, but that's not enough at all.
I understand well the points you have ticked, but the reality at the moment is that trade is stifled by interests and shrunk by choice... this is not a free market, but a primitive analogue of trade.
