113830-commodity-broker-cheaper-than-vendor

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I don't know if this is just my server (Evindra) But every time I go to flog my hard earned loot at the AH, I come across a persisting problem. The sell prices at the Commodity Broker are insultingly low.
Now, don't take this as just me whining that I want more money, no. There is a single, objective fact here that the prices are too low. THEY ARE LOWER THAN THE VENDOR PRICE.
 
And that's just absurd. At this price, people may as well just vendor it rather than putting it into the economy. The only possible reason I can think of that this is the case is that players are unaware that they can vendor commodities, and so are just selling it to the highest bidder.
I'm not entirely sure where I'd post suggestions, but assuming this affects more people than just me; might I suggest setting a minimum auction price of the vendor value. If, say, Sapphires have a vendor price of 6s 18c, the minimum they can be auctioned for should be 6s 19c, and that doesn't even take into account the 12% fee the AH takes.
 
Two reasons this should work: Firstly, people who are unaware you can vendor commodities will be made aware of it by the little error message, and secondly...it just strikes me as common sense that taking the effort to auction an item and transfer it back into the economy should yield better results than clicking a button and sending it into the void.	
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The problem is there are too many impatient people. In order to sell as fast as possible, they undercut the competition with a vengeance. Unfortunately, they are too busy trying to "screw the other guy" to realize they are taking a loss versus vendoring instead. RMT's started this trend, and it's now out of control. This is why I just vendor 75% of the mats I aquire.
 
A warning might help for some, but there will always be some people who just don't care. Those people will keep the prices low regardless.	
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			The NPC vendors should just instantly buy out anything listed on the AH for the (vendor price + 12%) or less.	
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It's not just your server.  Just get the vendor buff in your capital city and vendor your stuff.  This has been a problem since day 1.  Most people don't even sell stuff on the broker for vendor +12% and end up losing money vs the broker too.
 
Alternatively, it keeps the market from being flooded by 10x more stuff nobody will ever buy.	
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Two reasons this should work: Firstly, people who are unaware you can vendor commodities will be made aware of it by the little error message, and secondly...it just strikes me as common sense that taking the effort to auction an item and transfer it back into the economy should yield better results than clicking a button and sending it into the void.
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The problem is there are too many impatient people. In order to sell as fast as possible, they undercut the competition with a vengeance. Unfortunately, they are too busy trying to "screw the other guy" to realize they are taking a loss versus vendoring instead. RMT's started this trend, and it's now out of control. This is why I just vendor 75% of the mats I aquire.
 
A warning might help for some, but there will always be some people who just don't care. Those people will keep the prices low regardless.
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It's not just your server.  Just get the vendor buff in your capital city and vendor your stuff.  This has been a problem since day 1.  Most people don't even sell stuff on the broker for vendor +12% and end up losing money vs the broker too.
 
Alternatively, it keeps the market from being flooded by 10x more stuff nobody will ever buy.
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			Not just your server. It is really annoying. Could have made so much more money if I didn't have to vend everything. 	
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Not just your server. It is really annoying. Could have made so much more money if I didn't have to vend everything. 
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			It's even better when people fill buy order for items at cheaper than vendor price. >_> not that I would ever take advantage of people like that.....	
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It's even better when people fill buy order for items at cheaper than vendor price. >_> not that I would ever take advantage of people like that.....
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I have unknown amounts of plat sitting on the CX waiting for people to set a price, to fill my order.
I've made so much money this way lol.
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			And why should any1 care, if some1 is stupid enough to sell below vendor price? That is his/her business to check it and keep an eye on it and it isn't even anywhere near hard, as you even don't need to go near vendor to check price - it's right in front of you when u r putting anything on CX.	
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I was a outstanding citizen and did my best to clean it up. I'd search CX & AH daily for stuff I could buy and vendor for profit. 
 
But yes, CX has stagnated at the 'vendor for more cause of AH cut'.	
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			You'll come to love this about the CX should you start crafting for profits but I agree with the comments above. The server should have an infinite buy order on all the things, maybe like 5% less then vendor value so people can still bank roll buying things up and sellers could still work with that 12% cut. Something along those lines because Vending goods and materials is demoralizing and I think is a contributor to the dead server symptom.	
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The NPC vendors should just instantly buy out anything listed on the AH for the (vendor price + 12%) or less.
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