It should be required that sellers list an asking price in their original post.

[OneLastStand]

It should be required that sellers list an asking price in their original post.

Hi there, I'm relatively new to EpicNPC but not new to the e-trading game. I've noticed that many sellers do not list an asking price, meaning they are waiting for offers from potential buyers. To me, this more often than not, becomes a huge waste of everyone's time because the buyer ends up lowballing the seller, the seller gets offended, etc.

Not only is it common business practice to list a price for what you're selling (i.e. you don't ever go into a store and have to make offers on items, the items already have pricetags on them.) And depending on the type of store (whether it's a commercial store or a private owned Mom and Pop store) you can then decide whether it's appropriate to barter on the item.

But all in all, I do think for the efficiency of buying/selling items here on EpicNPC, it would be a huge step forward to make it mandatory for sellers to list an asking price in their "for sale" threads.

Thanks for your time and consideration!

 

[EpicNPC]

In general we do require a price to be included. The issue becomes with users that are relatively new to selling virtual items or accounts and don't know the value of their item. Many of them ask for offers as a sort of price check and generally we don't penalize them for doing it.

Requiring prices for all in a very strict manner would be something we would have to think about and discuss so that new users aren't negatively impacted. Thank you for bringing up this issue. It'll be something we'll consider.


https://www.epicnpc.com/infocenter/forumrules.html

Include item description, price, payment method and contact method in your thread.