50 Item auction house limit=high unemployment

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.

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

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.

How many of you agree with the 50 item auction house limit?

How many of you agree with the 50 item auction house limit?
I'm level 31 and I just received 20 "no sale" reject mails and I'm getting sick of dealing with this.

1) I am not over pricing or even medium pricing, in fact whatever price pops up when I plug my item into the auction house I choose a figure at least 30% less than it - AT LEAST.
And I have a diversity of products - armoring, mods, random loots and grenades.

2) The 50 item limit is leaving me very little buffer room of the last 8 items I picked up questing with all the reject sales emails

3) How do you expect me to continue to advance cybertech skill when I have an arseload of wait time to just get rid of all the things in my cargo bay plus sell off all the stuff I pick up questing?

4) At some point another 5 items auction house increase limit should be allowed maybe at level 32

5) Until I navigated my way through your lack of "ooopsy crew skills selection should have been included in class selection" I did not know that you would be sticking a diaper on my face.
I had to google scavenging+cybertech plus a bunch of other things to find out that it is what I should have been doing the whole time. In the meantime I've been wasting my time on treasure hunting so I just switched to scavenging.

6) Your game is in-efficient at selling and buying at this time
I only researched how to create armoring and mods because there was so little things on the auction house for me to buy.

7) There is a very unacceptable low amount of items selling on the auction house - too little.
On my earlier levels I had a very hard time finding anything I needed, even over priced.
I decided to start crafting things and putting them on the auction house because of this but your stupid 50 item limit is screwing up the economy of your game.

Look for yourself. Pick a random class and spec and try to search for something selling that will help you - it's not there. The trade rules should be laxed in the beginning on limits and gradually tightened as the economy grows not strangled from the starting line.

Like it or not, when you create an economy in a massive multiplayer online game you have officially taken a step into politics so deal with it.

In order for an economy to grow you must lax the rules at first and gradually strengthen them and adapt them as the economy grows and more people try to take advantage of the system.

This just further reinforces my point about knowing your market.


You have a market for those hilts but I'm assuming you don't waste time making and posting the green quality hilts?

If it sells then there is a market for it but if you keep posting the same crap and it keeps not selling the problem isn't the GTN it's the fact that the poster doesn't understand.

I don't care if the math makes sense ok?
When I started playing after so many levels I learned you can't find crap on the auction house (GTN) so when I figured out how to craft things now I want to put as much stuff as I can on the auction house so new players can HAVE SOMETHING/SEE SOMETHING when they come to the auction house.

If I get 30 mails 18 will be rejects, 6 will be earpieces sold, the other 6 will be mods/armoring or loots I picked up.

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.