I hope they don't repeat the same stupid useless feature of World of Warcraft's auction house: stacks.
Why stacks are completely pointless: - People list dozens if not hundreds of 1-item listings in order to bury others who sell by stacks. - Sorting by price means you're sorting by stack price, which is pointless. Sorting by price should be based on the price per unit. - Selling items should never "stack". You have 56 items for sale, that's all there is to it. - If I want to only buy 8 units and you've got the l
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @02:13PM (#39574351)
This is the complaint of a man who can't fix his own problems.
There are auction addons that sort by per-unit price; these addons are permitted by the ToS. None of them use more than a few MB of memory. Problem solved.//Whoever thought using stacks in the auction house was a good idea never actually used it.//
I buy and sell stacks all the time.//If I want to only buy 8 units and you've got the lowest price per unit, then I buy 8 of those 56 units that you have for sale.//
This is similar to a Dutch auction, and a seller can accomplish this feat by... wait for it... choosing not to use stacks. The seller chooses how/whether he is willing to part with his items; if you don't like his 10-unit stack then buy someone else's items.
Anyway, this reads as a "QQ, EVERYTHING MUST BE MY WAY" rant. Get over yourself.
Auction House (Score:3)
I hope they don't repeat the same stupid useless feature of World of Warcraft's auction house: stacks.
Why stacks are completely pointless:
- People list dozens if not hundreds of 1-item listings in order to bury others who sell by stacks.
- Sorting by price means you're sorting by stack price, which is pointless. Sorting by price should be based on the price per unit.
- Selling items should never "stack". You have 56 items for sale, that's all there is to it.
- If I want to only buy 8 units and you've got the l
Re:Auction House (Score:0)
This is the complaint of a man who can't fix his own problems.
There are auction addons that sort by per-unit price; these addons are permitted by the ToS. None of them use more than a few MB of memory. Problem solved. //Whoever thought using stacks in the auction house was a good idea never actually used it.//
I buy and sell stacks all the time. //If I want to only buy 8 units and you've got the lowest price per unit, then I buy 8 of those 56 units that you have for sale.//
This is similar to a Dutch auction, and a seller can accomplish this feat by... wait for it... choosing not to use stacks. The seller chooses how/whether he is willing to part with his items; if you don't like his 10-unit stack then buy someone else's items.
Anyway, this reads as a "QQ, EVERYTHING MUST BE MY WAY" rant. Get over yourself.