144586-stack-posting-on-the-auction

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Hi there,
 
This has been an issue of concern with many, many of the playerbase, going way back to launch— when you post something on the auction house, it takes the entire stack. So say I have 10 Dominion Cages in my inventory and click to sell one, the auction house will instead post all 10 of them. This forces us to split stacks every time we want to do some selling, putting excess items in our bank or mailing them to alts. As you can imagine it is quite annoying! :P
 
And it's twice as frustrating when something goes wrong and you end up selling multiple items for the price of one, which may have happened to me recently. I'm working with support right now to figure out what happened, but until then I thought it would be prudent to bring this to the forums.
 
So devs or ops, whoever handles these things, I beg of you... is this a bug? Please tell me this isn't intended. More importantly, I'd really like to know when this is going to be fixed/changed. I mean, I hate the auction house in this game, but I can live with it. This problem of stack posting is something else entirely though.
 
Hoping to get some feedback from anyone with a CRB tag if possible. And if we're lucky, and have been really really good this year, I'm praying you folks update your auction house in a few ways with the next drop around the holiday season... ;)
 
Thanks for reading and great job on all of the recent updates!
			
				
	Edited October 21, 2015 by EsperXIV	
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			Almost everything about the AH/CX design is terrible. This is definitely one of the things. >_<	
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Almost everything about the AH/CX design is terrible. This is definitely one of the things. >_<
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I don't think the stack posting thing is a bug, more an intended "feature". Intended as in couldn't be bothered to do it properly. It is staggering that in 2015 it is necessary to manually split stacks of items to sell the desired amount on an AH instead of being able to do this within the UI of the AH itself, like any other MMO.
 
The search feature has been broken forever too. It can show the "too many results" even when there is only one of an item on the AH. It seems to be to do with the search string used, not any kind of genuine too many items overload.
 
Other irritations with the AH are the confirmation box which takes time to fade out after posting an item. You can't do anything until this fades, so it slows down the process when trying to submit a number of auctions back to back. No doubt whoever thought this little animations was "cool" never used the AH more than once or twice.
 
And then there's the truly bizarre method of currency input. I've gotten used to it now, but it's still cupcaking crazy.
 
For me, bringing the AH and CX up to scratch should have been one of the priorities for the F2P revamp. It was never properly polished from the original launch, and yet we launched into F2P with no improvements to it. Perplexing given how many players use this feature on a daily basis.	
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			It would have definitely been nice to see, Cern. I'm going to hope we get some feedback from someone at the C-R-B about this topic— not expecting dates or anything, but an acknowledgement of the issues, maybe a statemet that they agree there's an issue and the auction house needs improvement, these would be a good start. :P	
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We've complained about the AH since launch.
 
It is, arguably, one of the worst auction houses to appear in a game. 
 
It doesn't need changing, it needs burning down to the ground and an entirely new one building. 
 
It's that bad that some people would rather vendor stuff for much lower profit than use the auction house. I'm one of them. 	
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Is true, I would love to see a redesign that included:
 
1. No more 'too many results'— if a search is overloading the system, simply have the system generate cheapest results only. This should be intuitive, as nobody wants to pay top prices on an item. xD
 
2. Page search— not only do the arrows suck, they're also available only by scrolling to the bottom of the page!  It's be great if we could just type in a page number and go there.
 
3. Page persistence— when I buy something while doing a casual search to see what's out there, why reset the entire search? Keep players right where they are. If I've clicked through 30 pages, chances are I want to continue from the point I'm at. :P
 
4. Obviously remove stack posting, as requested here; either let us choose how many we want to post, or just post one. The auction house isn't really the type of place where you post a ton of one kind of item anyway.
 
That's about all I can think of. I like that you show us what's currently posted when we sell, and that I can preview items before buying them. We just need some QOL tweaks like the aforementioned and everything will be dandy!
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Adding:
 
--Tab to move between price inputs (like everything else on a computer anywhere in the world)
--Filter by usable in AH
--Sort by usable level in AH
--Filter by available in CX, make that default behavior
--Search for partial matches, not matches only at the start of a string
--Show the my listings on the sell page, not the buy page (or both)
--Fix the my listings button so it doesn't always say 0 (zero)
--Show the seller's name
--Preview and mouse-over anything anywhere, instead of bizarre mishmash
--Some overhaul to remove the bottomfeeding scumbags from the CX, why the guesswork?	
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