ReturnOfReckoning wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:13 pm [Auction House]
- Auction House fees have been adjusted. On Live the fees were 20% of the vendor price of the item and this amount would be taken when the item was listed. On Return of Reckoning the UI would reflect the functionality on live, but would take out 10% of the buy it now price when the item is sold. The fees will now flucuate depending on the Rating of the City. The higher the rating the lower fees. Fees will now also be taken when listing an item instead of when it is sold and its based on the buy it now price you put. The fee structure is as follows:
- 1 * => 10%
- 2 * => 8%
- 3 * => 6%
- 4 * => 4%
- 5 * => 2%
This is subject to change.
- Results returned from searches has been tweaked to order by lowest price and then by most recently listed. Meaning you do not need to undercut someone to have your item sell first. Previously items were shown in order they were listed in the auction house. *
"Subject to change", then I'd like to try and make an argument for it.
As it stands, just the act of putting an auction up can be quite punishing, depending on city stars (and living in the age of city pushes meaning cities are most likely at 1-3 stars max) it can lead to some pretty high taxes (40g - 150g for example) JUST for placing an item up without a sale being guaranteed ofc.
Taxing fees also do not show up in chat so one kind of has to guess why one's 50g poorer when one didn't buy anything that day, for example.
A little chat message mentioning how much you were taxed would be nice if nothing else is changed at least.
No taxes are always preferred both ingame and irl but that's daydreaming unless we're living in Bermuda or other magical places!
Undercutting (even with the listing change that was implemented) is a snowball that once it starts rolling it can take weeks/months to dissipate and even then, some items don't recover, meaning that even if you're the first and only person to put an item up, one single person can start an undercutting snowball and you're never really going to sell the item you first put up AND if you decide to join the undercutting snowball to try and sell your item by cancelling and reposting, you will still be down the taxing fee from your first post and now from your second one, as you join the snowball.
The current auction house taxing fee system does not seem to encourage one to be active once an auction is posted, instead it seems to encourage staleness, consequently creating an auction house that is riddled with auctions that have been up for ages but no one taking them down because they invested (taxing fee) in putting them up for sale and decide to "ride it out" in the hope it sells.
I don't think it is too crazy or even crazy at all to ask for the return of the taxing fee IF the person CANCELS their own auction.
Nothing sold, nothing taxed, simple.
A different option would be to go back to being taxed upon a sale being completed, seems reasonable as well.
I do believe any of these two options would create a more active and less punishing auction house where people are not afraid of not getting a guaranteed sale thus creating an auction house that is fresher and not clogged with old auctions.
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