Mutual Embargo Option

[Makaveliarts]

If you have Auction Embargo on, and you put someone on your ignore list, They will not be able to purchase items from you. But you can still purchase from them.

I Suggest a second feature that if someone has you on embargo (not just ignore) then this feature will make it so they can no longer purchase items from you. Either this, or scrap the embargo feature altogether, because you can just trade gold to an alt and purchase the item anyways. I personally think the embargo option should stay for some reasons, but you should also be able to automatically embargo someone who puts you on embargo. IMO, this is obviously fair.

There would be an issue with this though. Someone could easily unignore you, so they could purchase an item of yours, then put you back on ignore. To stop this, you should have to wait 3 days after unignoring someone you put on embargo to purchase any item they have for sale on the AH (not including player to player trades).

Now that I think of it, the embargo option in general is kind of immature ( less now because of buying one item of a stack at a time ). But it is only fair that players should have a mutual embargo feature if the auction embargo feature remains. I would not mind selling to someone that has put me on ignore, as long as they do not have embargo active so when I try to buy from them I get the "This douche has put you on ignore with embargo on so they can anger you, all while benefiting from your generously low prices!" message.

[Makaveliarts]

Addition: Another way to exploit this would be to turn off Auction Embargo, therefore allowing you to purchase from someone you have on embargo while they have mutual embargo on, then simply turning it back on. Therefore, it should also be added that turning off auction embargo should take time to take effect.

This sounds like a lot of trouble to go through, but it is not fair the way things are currently. Either scrap embargo, or do not allow someone to even see what someone who they have on embargo is selling, or add the mutual embargo option with steps taken to make sure it cannot be easily worked around.

[Ebonflame]

How about this: Have a "double blind" on the AH, that way noone knows who is doing the selling, or who is doing the buying.

[Makaveliarts]

Originally Posted by Ebonflame

How about this: Have a "double blind" on the AH, that way noone knows who is doing the selling, or who is doing the buying.

I'd support this also.

[Makaveliarts]

If a "double blind" was added to AH, then some preventative measures would have to be taken to avoid auction spam (buying one item off a stack repeatedly) because you can no longer embargo someone spamming you.

[Ebonflame]

Maybe the implementation of an "auction only" channel?

[Thomas Jordan]

Or grow up and be an adult.

I could care less who buys more stuff. Why do you?

And if someone really, really wants your stuff they're just going to get a friend to buy it for them anyway, so the whole concept of "embargo" is pointless.

[hotshot64]

Yeah it's pretty pointless and petty.

[Makaveliarts]

That's why I said it would also be an option to remove the ability to embargo completely, because stopping someone from buying things that you are selling is immature unless they were spamming you with repeated small purchases.

[Darkdingus]

Totally against a "double blind".
When I go to AH, I usually look at all the item prices. If I find an item sold by a clannie at a higher price, I usually PM them to ask if they can lower the price.