Website Update

[Kip]

There is obviously a different tax for different items. I don't know exactly how it is done,
but I listed an example above to illustrate it.

The tax is a fixed percent of the total value of your listing.

Apart from that it is the amount of time it
costs to update a certain post again and again to maintain your representation on this
market with a certain amount of a resource in respect to the availability and scarcity of it.
To be more precise: It is in many cases an advantage to be able to offer a bigger amount
of something. In some cases it is less significant.

It should only take extra time if the seller insists on maintaining an exact quantity - no more, no less.  Arguably, though, if you are getting more work out of it, that means you are selling more.

[quote author=Kip link=topic=27251.msg181646#msg181646 date=1402019632]We do not want to force the buyer into fixed amounts such as 5, 10, 20, etc.  That was one of the main points of the update.

Instead, now the seller is forced to sell unit per unit. I cannot quite imagine how that should
be more positive in terms of motivating a seller and thereby guarantee the availability of goods
on the market.
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"The customer is always right!"  It is an often-overlooked sentiment in modern marketing but I believe it holds true here.

[quote author=Kip link=topic=27251.msg181646#msg181646 date=1402019632]As for bulk discounts, that is something that would best be arranged on the forum.

And how many new threads would that mean, selling 10 Rough Cloth, Basic Wood or whatever
instead of one? I think that is pretty urealistic to be honest.
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I believe a player shop would handle it quite nicely without too much added clutter.