Trading Post Question

When going to sell from your inventory, this screen pops up. What is the price column on the right? Some have prices listed, some grayed out. It never matches a price when I click to actually sell it (buyer/seller columns) or hover over it (for vendor value). It's boggled me for awhile now, but can't figure it out. I know when you h

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The trading post is not like an NPC merchant, it's actual players buying and selling to each other. If there is a greyed-out 'suggested price,' that means that there are no other players currently with offers to buy that item. You can still list things for sale by setting your own prices, but you will not get the money unless/until someone else decides to buy what you are offering.

The prices may change because new offers are being posted, or items at the lowest price were bought before you got to actually buying them, so you have to pay the next price. And don't forget that an additional trading fee is subtracted from each transaction! So that item you sold for 20 gold? You do not get 20 gold from it. >:O

It's an important thing to realize when you are new, that when you sell something, you don;t always need to take the immediate highest offer as a sell price. If, for example, there are no Maguuma Lilies for sale on the trading post, and you have one to sell, and the highest offer is 5 gold, you can list that puppy at 15 gold and see if anyone is willing to pay that for it. (Of course, the higher you list an item, the higher listing fee you pay.)

The trading post, when attempting to sell items, will often tell you if there's buyers that have bids available for the items you are attempting to sell. If it's anything but 0c, then there's at least one buyer, and the price shown is the highest offer for that item.

Do note that some have bids that reflect older trading post regulations, and the TP will kindly inform you of the absolute minimum required in order to post the item.

If an item is seen as 0c, that means nobody has made a buy offer. You can either make a sell offer, or do something else with it.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trading_Post

The trading Post is where all player to player trading happens.

If you sell an item you will be given 2 options:

A. Left side shows all current buy orders from other players, thus they have put money up and are waiting for someone to sell them the item. If you sell to them you will incur a 15% trade tax on the money you gained (the tax always amounts to 15%, just in this case it gets taken immediately).

B. The right side will show all current sell orders on this item from other players, thus they have put up the item (and a 5% Listing Fee, non refundable) and are waiting for someone to buy the item from the trading post at which point the remaining 10% Exchange Fee will be subtracted resulting again in a total of 15% trade tax.