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Originally Posted by Anonymous

Maybe the marketplace could have a max price set on items? Like you could only ask up to X amount of money for a particular item?
Or maybe all items could be bid only? No auto-buy option?
Or perhaps staff gets together and determines a set price for certain items and makes an frequently updated price guide?

The first and last ones become difficult to balance. We try to let the free market determine what items are actually worth, and for the most part it works.

The problem with bid-only is that it doesn't stop someone from buying low and selling high -- it just slows it down. Also, when people want items, they usually want them right away, so not allowing buy-now would frustrate users. It would also not work very well for negotiating item trades instead of aurum-based purchases.

I think the system as it stands right now actually does do a pretty good job of managing prices. It just suffers from an extreme lack of discoverability. A tool that would let someone put items up for sale, and then negotiate prices in a thread or in PM, would solve the problem we're having.