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the /auction channel

Corebreach

By Corebreach,
Posted on: 2009-08-20 12:18 in The Market and Inventions

 

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Have any of you successfully used the /auction channel to buy or sell any in-game items?

 

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There's an /auction channel?

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I've bought some stuff off TheMarket channel, didn't know there even was an Auction channel.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
didn't know there even was an Auction channel.
This.

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Originally Posted by Corebreach View Post
Have any of you successfully used the /auction channel to buy or sell any in-game items?
Isn't the "Auction" channel actually called the "Request" channel? The built in trading channel that has been there since release.

I think I sold one thing there pre-I9. The problem is that it is only a broadcast channel in zone, it is not a global channel.

I've seen the request channel misused as a lft channel, but mostly it is silent.

Global channel TheMarket is superior in every way. We only keep the Request channel around to give the illusion of competition so we can avoid scrutiny.

 

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Originally Posted by COTCaveHater View Post
Isn't the "Auction" channel actually called the "Request" channel? The built in trading channel that has been there since release.
Yes, that's the one.

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I've seen the request channel misused as a lft channel, but mostly it is silent.
Well, since it's presented to players as "the Request channel", and LFT/LFM messages are, in fact, requests, it seems pedantic to me to insist such messages are a misuse despite the fact that they are. (Yes, I see the current in-game help panel declares, "This is a channel reserved for trading, buying and selling," but that panel hasn't been there forever, and really, who reads it?)

 

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Originally Posted by Corebreach View Post
Yes, that's the one.


Well, since it's presented to players as "the Request channel", and LFT/LFM messages are, in fact, requests, it seems pedantic to me to insist such messages are a misuse despite the fact that they are. (Yes, I see the current in-game help panel declares, "This is a channel reserved for trading, buying and selling," but that panel hasn't been there forever, and really, who reads it?)
Well, if they offer me inf to join their team, THAT would be within the rules of the channel...