50 Item auction house limit=high unemployment

By the gods, this needs implemented, indeed.

No, Im sorry, Im really not missing the point. You are adding 2 and 2 and getting 50.


You are complaining that there is nothing on the market.

You are complaining that most of the things you put on dont sell

you are equating this to being because there is a maximum of 50 items allowed.


Which is untrue.


There is nothing on the market for two reasons. Reason 1 being that the market isnt exactly user friendly. Reason 2 being that the game is new and comparing it to WOW is simply silly as that market has been going for a long long time.

As for blaming the lack of market slots for the reason that nothing sells, well again thats a ridiculous connection. Nothing that you put up sells for two reasons. 1 - because not many people use the market because its not user friendly. Reason 2 - because no one wants crappy green items.

Put up decent stuff, some blues and purples, and it WILL sell. I can categorically prove this as it is exactly what I do, and it works.

Then WOW should have an anti-monopoly committee.
Did we not learn this lesson many years ago in the US where most of the awesome inventions of the world come from because we have stared freedom of speech and human rights and free trade in the face and dealt with it in a fair way with at least an honest effort of politics.
Letting people abuse capitalism is creating a game where most people lose.

lol very true...

In that case the dev's were well aware of what we were doing so it wasn't quite so bad and did result in trade limits being added which pretty quickly normalised the markets again and made it impossible for others to do the same thing.
The cash advantage we had really didn't amount to much, it meant we were pretty much guaranteed to be able to afford new skills and equipment as it became available, but beyond that it didn't do much for us except save us some of the cash grind, and as the game in question died a few months after that, the lasting effects of two well off players meant nothing.

The problem isn't the limit the problem is what you are posting on the GTN.


On average I see about 7-10% of my auctions fail however I am not posting random crap.


You need to understand the market if you want to make money in it. As I posted in another thread:

The majority of purchases of Gear/Gear Mods in any MMO are done by level capped characters for alts.

If you are posting random BoE items or item modifications you are going to see horrible sales, PERIOD. There is no market for those items right now. Most players are focusing on leveling and the storyline and could care less about a +2 item upgrade.

If you want to sell item mods sell the level 50 mods and you will see a drastic increase in the volume of sales since THIS IS WHERE THE MARKET IS.

If you want to sell things to players not at level cap or if you want to appeal to a high percentage of the market then you need to be selling:

Raw Materials
Consumables
Missions
Schematics

Those 4 things are what people use when they are leveling. People do not spend credits on minor gear upgrades that will be replaced by easy quests or flashpoints.


Keep posting 50 auctions of crap a day and keep thinking that it's the size limit that's holding you back.

I'll keep posting my 50 relevant auctions at a time then reposting 50 more when they've all sold an hour later.

I have to disagree with you here. I cant make purple might hilts (grade 3,5,7 and 9) fast enough. Even when selling them way above where I can sell the individual materials. and they are for characters between levels 15 and 21

I also wanted to add that SWG > WoW. Running out to a house was annoying but traders homes are usually 10000% more fun to look at then Ironforge. Also because the distribution of item vendors was across dozens of planets, I'm sure cornering a market was possible, but man if that wouldn't be a full time job, running out to dozens of vendors buying all their stock, get back to the auction to find out that one of the vendors has restocked and undercut your own vendor.

*sigh*

Just skimming your post it is obvious that you are trying to sell worthless trash on the market. The majority of items should just be sold to a NPC vendor and move on. Only certain rare and high quality items as well as various crafting related material are going to sell. Fact of life, nothing strange or unusual about that. Just because you are provided with a "suggested" price does not mean a 30% reduction will guarantee a sale.

After i play a whole day i have way more then 50 things to sell, bags are full, my mail is loaded with old auctions that havent sold, and i have 50 active autions.

I have to vendor quite alot of things i think i could have sold at the gtn.

"I have way more then 50 things to sell"

"my mail is loaded with old auctions that haven't sold."



Just because you CAN put something on the GTN doesn't mean you SHOULD.