Yeah so there’s a thing where they just sit there and the bot or player lists something, lets say luredrop - Most listings are above 34 gold for me for a rank 1 right now. What they will do is, list one of them (just one) at, say, 19gold. And they get an influx of people who are just quickly clicking their items and selling, not realizing someone is quite literally scamming them.
Simple fix: available items create average price as the default listing buyout price.
34 gold 23 silver has 29 items available,
34 gold 24 silver has 14,781 available,
34 gold 25 silver has 14,605 available,
34 gold 26 silver has 191 available.
It would be very easy to say, 34 gold 24 silver is the lowest price people are willing to sell luredrops for.
But currently - one guy lists a luredrop for 19 gold 53 silver, and suddenly the default buyout is now 40% lower than the majority of listings.
Nobody should be able to single handedly lower the default listing price for an item and imo it’s predatory, only a specific type of person would do this to take gold from unsuspecting players.
Call me whatever but most people might not even realize how much gold they’ve lost from this.
Bear in mind I’m not saying you shouldnt be able to sell items cheap or expensive, i’m just saying, the DEFAULT listing price should NOT be the lowest price if there’s more listings that are higher
That said, if the default listing price would shift to “average highest” or just “highest” players would then wonder why their stuff won’t get sold no?
Simple fix is to pay attention when posting.
AH was always free market, prices where always set by players freely.
Or do you want someone to buy all that Luredrop at 34g and repost at 1000g? Noone could lower the price to normal
An interesting idea. I have some knee-jerk questions:
Who says that the higher prices are justified?
How is a lower price any less legitimate?
I can see your argument that it’s an attempt to lure sales at low prices, just to buy them up and relist at the higher price. However, how is this distinguished from a seller that wants a quick sale, so they sell low for a fast sale while loosing some potential revenue.
Also, in the strictest sense, it’s not someone’s fault that you didn’t check the price you were listing things for. I’m not against the heart of what you’re saying, that predatory gaming of the AH with the use of bots is both pathetic and sad, but I think what you’re proposing obfuscates useful information for buyers and sellers: i.e., the current lowest market price.
We should just write an addon that does these calculations you’re proposing
