Some people will want to save the % on their sell price, but generally high levels are going to sell stuff that only high levels want… so that isn’t a big issue.

low levels will sell stuff that low levels want + low level mats for powerleveling professions… so there will still be a reason to return.. not forgetting hawking your wares in the 1st place.

i’d buy that for a dollar!

I think Underbelly as Spooner suggests has some merit… Goblins worm their way into the sewers… give them their own drain pipe… less lag, more NAH!

@Spooner: Why thankyou bringer of all sorts of juicy information. Hard to imagine that you can be amazed, yet here is proof positive…

I can live with the 15%… happy that it is more profitable to trade within one’s own faction, but the thing is to make sure there is enough quantity going through the AH that people actually look and buy.

I love your idea of Underbelly… slimy little Gnome competitors those Goblins are…

I am sure they could tack on another map area of the sewers without any difficulty… hell if need be they could just introduce Sewer Servers….

I agree dropping one in Shattrath’s lower city or in the Underbelly of Dalaran would not only fit the kit/lore of these big bustling cities, but it’d also provide more immersion (like blizzard knocking out flying mounts in dalaran to keep the city streets looking busy).

Lag in dalaran would be my only concern. It’s already a royal pain to zone in during peak hours with dalaran lag depending on realm population, I can’t imagine how it’d be with a cluster of people hanging out in the sewers.

So I agree, it needs to be more accesible, and develop its own market dynamic to be of any real use. Not sure if a AH in Dalaran would be good for its stability, maybe at a goblin establishement.

And putting it outside of Dalaran might help with the lag.

Another thing to consider – if a Neutral House were to become popular it would effectively act as another gold sink thanks to the Goblins taking their cut.

You bring up some great points to!

@prelimar: Nah, I didn’t email them, although I linked to them, so they may notice….

Me, I want more Mage content everywhere… but is there every anything to talk about? I think there is too great a danger it would come out as QQ.

@Darraxus: That is their primary use at the moment… x-faction pets.

@Psynister: To me lag would be the greatest inhibitor to putting it there in the 1st place. After that… well it’s a free economy, so maybe people will be happy to post at a loss, and maybe it would drain the life out of old content… but I am not to sure.

There are enough greedy goblin’s out there to want to make premium margin and that would require faction AH’s.