Building a Better Bug Report

I'm trying to come up with a reproducible set of circumstances where the market sells something you were trying to store, at a previously set price.

I want to be clear- I know this bug exists. It's happened to me. It's happened to other people in this forum. What I'm trying to come up with is a set of steps to reproduce the bug. Ideally, a set of steps that reproduces the bug EVERY time, but if it only happens sometimes... so it goes.

EXAMPLE :

"I logged in from desktop, went straight to the market, bought a Steel for 100,000. Relisted it for 50,000. Picked a stack of 10 Kinetic Weapons from my Salvage, put them on the market, it asked me how many I wanted to sell, when I entered 10 it immediately sold them for 50,000 each." (Note: this is an example of format. It didn't actually trigger the bug.)

Let's give the Devs something to work with, here.

Got it to happen! (note: 90% of this is irrelevant, I'm sure, but I don't know what are the important steps.)

1. Logged in in Ouroboros. Zoned to Talos. Went to Market.
2. Stored a crafted Thunderstrike Dam/End/Rech, level 50.
3. Listed it for 2,100,908 .
4. Stored another crafted Thunderstrike Dam/End/Rech, level 50.
5. Listed it for same price, not touching the listed price.
6. Brought up Salvage, dragged a Kin Weapon into storage [had 11].
7. It asked me how many I wanted, I put "10"
8. "Posting at this price will result in a large posting fee [1,000,whatever]. Are you sure?"

The two differences between the LAST time I tried this, which did not attempt to autolist:
a) I was in Ouroboros, and had to zone
b) Last time, my Kin Weapons were actually needed for a recipe I had.

EDIT:

Attempt #2: Logged into wents, listed only one T-strike before the kinetics, did not get bug. But that was also a relogin.

#3: Logged into Ouro from desktop, listed two T-strikes, got bug.
#4: Logged into Wents from desktop, listed two T-strikes then kinetics, got bug.
#5: Relogged into Wents, listed two T-strikes then kinetics, did NOT get bug. It also filled in the number of kinetics as "10" instead of showing an empty field.

If anyone else can describe a different path to the bug, that would probably be a huge help to the devs.

This isn't a reappearance of the old mouse-over bug is it, where moving the mouse over the post button while clicking and dragging triggers the button-down event?

I haven't really been logging in much lately, especially not to the market, so apologies if that's a totally dumb idea.

Fulmens: I don't believe this will be a reproducible bug. Based on the multiple times it has happened to me, and comments made during my petition exchanges relating to those incidents, it appears to be simply an issue with lag in the interface.

An item is dragged from inventory and dropped into the market. The interface shows it is there, and allows you to enter a price for it and hit the Post button, but as far as the server is concerned, the item isn't really there yet, so your interaction with the market transfers over to another item.

Earlier today I had dropped a Glad Strike recipe into a market slot, then dropped 3 different Adjusted Targeting recipes into the market also. I entered prices & hit Post for each of the 3 Adj. Targ recipes in order. The first two recipes sold correctly. The third appeared to sell correctly. All three recipes disappeared from the Stored tab and appeared to have moved to the Sold tab. The Glad Strike still showed on the Stored tab. When I clicked over to the Sold tab, I saw that the first two Adj. Targ recipes had sold along with the Glad Strike recipe. Needless to say, I was a bit annoyed at posting a recipe worth close to 500 mil for a selling price of 125K.

OK, I have a new theory on this. Unfortunately, I'm trying to prove it with negative tests.

The theory is that the new prompts have something to do with this. I got the idea in my head that they might be the culprit, and I started disabling them before selling anything. What I do is wait till I get the prompt, click the "don't remind me" radio, then decline the operation. Then I do the operation again, but now with no prompt.

So far, I've not been bitten again. Anyone who suffered this know for sure if they had prompts disabled first?

I got bit by this myself today, tried to list an impervious skin mez resist my lowbie defender found, darn thing instead listed a stack of 9 runes that weren't anywhere near the enhancement. For 8 million each. The 3.6 mil listing fee was most of what he had on hand.

It doesn't seem to be based on how fast you do things. I was specifically watching the chat window since I had heard of this bug, and it clearly said that I had put the enhancement in the market. I even waited a few extra seconds to make sure it knew what it was doing.

Only thing I can think of to do about this for now is to make sure that the thing you're trying to sell is the only salable item in the market slots at the time. A pain if you have tons of stuff there, but better than posting a stack of salvage for some ridiculous price.

Well, not proof of anything, but so far I've listed 6 crafted enhancers on a character with about 6 10-stacks of salvage in her market slots. Every time I was prompted about market fees, I turned the prompt off and then re-listed. So far so good; if I end up getting burned I'll let folks know this is a dead-end. To be honest, I can afford all but the most outrageous lost fees. (I still petition them, though; its the idea of it that irks me.)