[Bruman]

This debate is pretty much as old as time.

Seller wants the most possible, so wants people to offer.

Buyer wants to save pp, so wants people to post prices instead of having to inquire. This also makes sellers compete more openly.

Personally, I always list prices. If you don't know what something is worth, and don't know the "market value", well guess what? Noone is going to randomly offer you 1kpp for it. It just doesn't happen. Same for those who DO know what the market value is, and just hopes they'll get a higher offer - doubt it. The people who bother to make offers are probably hoping you have no idea what it's worth.

Personally, unless it's an item I really really like (and to be honest, as a monk at least, unless it's a haste item or a WR bag, most gear isn't that important, so I can easily ignore 99%), I'm not going to make an offer on whatever you're listing. I generally have no idea of "market value", since I never just sit in EC, and don't feel like fighting with a seller to get them to tell me a damn starting price, or getting a "ya rite u idot this is wurth liek 5kpp go bak 2 wow". So to get me to buy just regular armor, you need to list a price. And you have to wait for me to run to the bank =P

I guess it's just, IMO, as a seller, the perceived gain (people making stupid high offers) on gear by not listing the price is just something that is going to happen way way less than listing a price, even if it's cheaper, and getting the item sold. At the end of the day, not listing prices may leave you more pp per item, but you'll have many many less sales, where the other way is how you actually move items, and can then spend more time not sitting in a stupid tunnel. If you're already 50, you could even use that time to farm MORE items, and sell more.

And if you don't know what's something worth, and a PC comes up empty, just fill in the blank of "I would be happy if I got _____ for this." Make sure it's more than the vendor will give. Consider who would use the item, how it compares to similar items, look up the rarity, think of how easy/difficult it was to obtain, and if you're still too worried about loosing this imaginary profit that in reality probably never had a chance of happening, then just offer it for trade instead of selling.