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Nov 2003

A  Cole

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Mel 624 said :
If they keep the tax even between both sides of the transactions, it'll keep people from raising prices with +5% in response to it since everyone is losing the same amount either way. Removing the GE tax from bonds would be necessary for similar reasons seeing as they already get taxed to convert them to tradable.

The fact of the matter is that inflated or not, people don't like being the ones to lose out on profits for items selling at a given price. They were going to get some players upset no matter what but dealing with the actual alching problem through alching/alch item drops would've at least been specific to the people generating new gp instead of hitting everyone who sells items to other players to benefit PvM yet again. Yet if buyers are not willing to hit that +5%, the sellers will ultimately have to drop their prices anyway.

This is no different to how the GE operated pre-update. The natural price variations, and the +5% and +20% buttons far outweigh any damage that the convenience fee will do.


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24-Jan-2023 23:27:55

Dec 2021

Mel 624

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Just because prices vary naturally doesn't mean that all price variations are natural. Placing the entire tax on one side is an unnecessary factor in influencing those price variations and it favours raising prices. Address that and there's less pressure towards price increase even if other factors will cause the price to go up and down. This is about removing an unnecessary artificial factor in those variations. How to block a forum user

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