100053-fix-the-cx-and-buying-in-bulk

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Seriously... this is beyond annoying. I went to buy a paltry 50 titanium to finish up my tier of crafting. Instead of selling me the 50 cheapest titanium on the market (which, you know, makes sense) it tells me it cannot sell me because someone else bought it! I had to buy 5 at a time, then 1 at a time, until it let me do it again in bigger increments. What the heck is up with that? The CX is supposed to make things EASIER. I wanted to buy 50 titanium NOW, not with a buy order and wait for cheap prices, not 50 at the lowest price showing, I wanted the 50 cheapest titanium!
 
This is just silly. Please fix this to behave in a logical manner!	
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Because not everyone with a sell order out had theirs at the cheapest price, sounds like there were only 6 units at the cheapest price and then more at a higher price.
 
Mark up by about 2-5% above the cheapest price and then buy your 50, you will buy 50 of everything at or BELOW the price you list.  Simple as that.
 
Cheapest price only lists the cheapest price someone is selling at, even if it is only one person selling one unit. If everyone else is selling for a higher price, you can't buy 49 of something for a price lower than what those people are selling at.
 
To wit: You need to specify to the CX the maximum price you are willing to pay per unit for something, and then the CX will send you all units it can below or at your purchase price.  If you are only willing to pay the cheapest price, you will only be able to purchase the number of units listed at that exact price.	
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			Don't use Buy Now. Just create a Buy Order for the price you want to pay. It will get filled, if it's round about the Buy Now price. Much easier than trying to do multiple Buy Nows.	
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Don't use Buy Now. Just create a Buy Order for the price you want to pay. It will get filled, if it's round about the Buy Now price. Much easier than trying to do multiple Buy Nows.
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To wit: You need to specify to the CX the maximum price you are willing to pay per unit for something, and then the CX will send you all units it can below or at your purchase price.  If you are only willing to pay the cheapest price, you will only be able to purchase the number of units listed at that exact price.
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Then this needs to be explained better.
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Also note that if you buy now 100 units @ 10s, but theres 50 units at 9s and 50 units at 10s you will only be charged 9s per unit for the first 50.
 
The orders set the price (not the buy now/sell now).	
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I agree, it's very annoying right now.
 
It would be much easier if, when you entered a number of an item to buy, the CX would simply do the total calculations for you, accounting for the variable prices. "You want to buy 100 gizmos? The total price for the 100 cheapest gizmos on sale is x gold."	
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I think they are hesitant to give us too much information, simply because savvy traders will use it.
 
Ideally for you, SleepyK, you would be told what the exact price of the 200th unit of any item is and you can just enter that price and clear all your 200 units (though that still wont tell you the total amount, but f*** it you still get your items and it will always be less than or equal to 200th unit price times 200).
 
However ME knowing what the 200th items price is gives me an exact data point for the supply curve (and likewise on the demand side for sell now). This knowledge potentially, depending on how it is displayed of course, makes manipulating and controlling the market far easier.
 
I mean I have invested very little time into making plat, just enough to pay my monthly sub, but already I have spotted some more obvious market movements that would cut down my profits and have moved to cut them off via minor manipulations.	
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			I feel like I am a contestant on the Price is Right.	
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			I feel like I am a contestant on the Price is Right.	
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I agree, it's very annoying right now.
 
It would be much easier if, when you entered a number of an item to buy, the CX would simply do the total calculations for you, accounting for the variable prices. "You want to buy 100 gizmos? The total price for the 100 cheapest gizmos on sale is x gold."
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			This irritates the hell out of me, It should at least tell you how many are available at that price.	
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			Sounds like this needs an add on whose sole purpose it is to "buy up to X amount" from the lowest value up to your desired amount that then tells you how much you spent in total.  It would be a hell of a lot faster and you know that the bulk amount you buy will cost the same as or less than the most expensive listing.  If you're ok with that then saving yourself a few minutes manually spam buying garbage is quite beneficial.	
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This is EXACTLY how it currently works. By default, the top 50 price is filled in, all you have to do is enter the amount you want and the CX will buy up orders for you at the cheapest possible price.
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Except it doesn't.  Everything except Top 1 seems to be an average.  I've often had to exceed the Top 50 price by a fair margin to even get it to cough up 20 items.
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Pics or it didn't happen. I only have this problem if I want to buy 200 units of something, which is to be expected.
 
 
Dude, if you don't care how much you have to pay, just type in the number of units you want and insert 99999999999999999999999 into the price (to exaggerate a little :rolleyes: ). The mail with the items tells you how much you have payed. The CX automatically sends you the cheapest up to your chosen price.
 
The system is good as it is now.
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This is EXACTLY how it currently works. By default, the top 50 price is filled in, all you have to do is enter the amount you want and the CX will buy up orders for you at the cheapest possible price.
That's what those average prices are for: "what unit price will I pay on average if I were to buy 10 ores? Or what about 50?"
 
 
Rather than complaining, please try to learn how it actually works. If you are dead set on buying every unit at exactly the same price and not a copper more, you should create buy orders.
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Except it doesn't.  Everything except Top 1 seems to be an average.  I've often had to exceed the Top 50 price by a fair margin to even get it to cough up 20 items.
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This this so much this. They already talked about how the system was incomplete but why do we not even have word on when it will be completed. This is a core feature and should be finished before new BGS and other content. Even Diablos garbage AH was fixed already and the Commodities exchange there was amazing with normalized prices. Do not understand why we needed CX in it's current form. It has only created a vendor most items market as most players price things just above vendor price. Can we just get a normal AH.
 
The system should allow me to set buy as many items as are available and show me how much I will be paying by adding up all of the cheapest peoples items. This should have been ready by launch or at the very least the first content drop, yet we still have no confirmation.
 
I also am running into item probably already purchased item when buying one item and have to constantly reload to fix it. Shouldn't the AH/CX be a priority?	
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No, because by knowing the 10th price you have no idea how much you'll end up paying, you only know the price of the item in the 10th spot. Average is much more informative.
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