On the two screenshots you can see what happens to me regulary. I klick Match competion, but it rises the price?! It's now even farer away from that competing seller? Sometimes it rises too when there is no competing seller at all...


And for someting different: When I only scan and bottomscan once and I buy some items and i want to use appraiser imediately, there is one strange thing happening. since those sellers i bought my items from are still in the database I'm competing against them, also I know there not there anymore, because i just bought it from them. so i have to scan once again before selling.
why is an entry from the seller i bought the item from not automaticly removed?

Greetings,
Peter.

right now, if match can't match the lowest, it is instead increasing to your highest. this probably shouldn't happen. please create a ticket for this.

if there is no competition (or if all competition is above your market), it should increase above your market value. there is a setting that tells it how much to increase at maximum.

not sure about the buyouts getting removed, please create a separate issue for this.

hmm, that actually makes more sense than what i thought it was doing. not sure if I agree it's what we should be doing. need to think on it more.

Slight clarification on Meridun's explanation on the workings of match-undercut:

1) First step is to increase the price by the max above.
2) It looks at competing auction #1 and figures out the undercut price.
3) The price is set to this undercut price only if it is less than the price it has already, and is at least the minimum price possible. (It also ignores your own auctions, so you don't wind up undercutting yourself)
Then it repeats 2-3 for the rest of the competing auctions

This means that it doesn't need to worry about sorting the price list first.

My reasoning for having it go up by the max in the case of no competition was: that price is the maximum you're willing to post at above the baseline, limited only by the presence of competition.


My reasoning for having it go up by the max in the case of no competition was: that price is the maximum you're willing to post at above the baseline, limited only by the presence of competition.

So I have tried to write my post for this four times and keep undoing it because I'm very timed and not sure if its making sense to the world out there haha but here goes try 5:

It works like it should....

If you are willing to sell your item at 10% above market when there is competition at 10% above market then why in the world would you no be willing to sell at this price when there is no competition at all?

If your match competition is set to 70% for example and people are posting at say 55%, you would still want to post at 10% above market because noone is posting in your range, then you want to go buy those items at 55% are re-list them... If this method is something that is not working for you, something, somewhere needs adjusted. I could be wrong but I really believe this module is excellent, its simple and does what seems logical- Although the ability to slighty adjust a match price change would be nice without it toggling to fixed, if I change the price of something while match price is checked it should assume the valuation module is correct and the change is simply for a market spike therefore- dont fix the price) In fact this little option would fix a couple other things I have read / posted about in other threads :P

Hmmm.... Still, in high volume markets I'd prefer to post at my lowest level if there is competition because chances are that even if I can't undercut the current stuff that someone else will post things at market price after they are bought out and I want my auctions to be "next in line", whereas with the current system it depends very very highly on the prices other people have set and probably makes it "gameable".
Of course in _really_ high volume markets there will be auctions set at every possible price point and so it'll do exactly what I want simply because the sample range is so large.

I don't understand having five colors when it seems 4 would work in this scenario..?

Another option you have is doing something like this:

red > 120% -- prices to high way above market and you cannot match because its above your 20% over limit
orange > 105% -- Over market 'sweet spot' so im gouging at this price and is matchable
yellow > 95% -- within the markets sweet spot, matchable
green > 80% -- lower than market but matchable (above your under 20% setting)
blue > 0% -- forget trying to match it ( you can't ), consider going to buy it and resell it (ideally price to sell in the yellow zone)

Basing these off your +/- 20% figure and my 'sweet spot' of +/- 5% figure. by sweet spot I mean if when I view these auctions the majority are within this zone most of the time that this is a pretty stable price point and I can assume that my data is near accurate for the true market value within 5%+/-

This is something I'm experimenting with now for settings however I'm not using 20% matching +/- I'm using +7% and -14% at the moment. (just set this up only one posting under this so not sure the outcome Simply holding onto it if I cant post within those ranges because people are below the 14% range... no idea how this is working out yet need a bit more time with this experiment. I'm also experimenting with a min pct discount of 45% - 75% depending on my mood and 45% gives me 31% profit if i can sell above my green zone.

the reason I use blue with a 0 - 79% in this example is I want to know at a snap if my numbers are not on par for the item or if theres a possible deal there (even if it doesn't fit into my btm settings for btm to pickup as it might not, I'll buy regent for less discount due to no deposit costs and pricing stability - this could also apply to herbs or any other item that you 'know the market' on and allows you to easily spot values outside of btm (hrm I think I said that already)

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I hope I typed this out correctly I am very tired so really not sure lol

yes. the key point to understand is that the color coding won't affect anything other than the color each item is highlighted in compactUI and appraiser, and the breakdown #/#/#/#/# display on the left pane of the appraiser window. It does not affect which items are popped as good bargains, or how the Pct/discount is calculated.