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Market Promotion Extended (September) page
Ok, I have a question, which may seem a bit weird...
(A) If an item has no current listings on the marketplace, but it is a craftable item for which I have already learned the recipe (and so could easily craft one myself), is it reasonable to enter the price I would list it for if I crafted and sold one?
(B) If (A) is not acceptable, what if I *do* craft and list one--can I then enter the price I listed it for, as someone else would?
And the mind-bender: (C) If I do (B) and then immediately cancel the listing, the end result to an outside observer would be indistinguishable from if I did (A).
The only actual difference would be that I would now have at least one copy of the item cluttering my inventory, but I would also have entered a price for it and thus removed it from the "list of items that have gone the longest without an update" used by the queue. The latter is a benefit to anyone using the queue, which I think is a point in its favour.
Of course, all of this only works if the price I enter here is really what I would list the item for--which I would generally determine by looking at the prices of other similar items, the cost of the crafting materials (and market prices of those materials), and the price history shown here on Trovesaurus.
So, what are your thoughts on this type of situation? If you insist that I use method (B), I may still do it--at least until I run out of inventory space!