Merchant Archive
Thread: Unretrievable items refunded
You get 25 slots in the commodity market... and apparently, the following things use these slots:
-bazaar sales
-offers to any vendor
-items that appear in Available Items at a bazaar terminal (includes bazaar items and limbo'd items)
This is really a poor setup, and I hope a bug... offers to vendors should NOT count against this 25 count... it should either be unlimited, or have its own seperate, and preferrably higher, limit. One big problem with it is, once you offer an item, you have NO control. If the other person doesn't accept or reject, the item is sitting there taking a slot and you have no way of KNOWING that, or fixing it... I assume it would probably time out in 7 days, but if the vendor is removed with items in the offered items bin, they don't seem to time out and still take space. And limbo items... even worse.. I just yesterday got around 10 mails about unsuccessful auctions.. I have NO idea where they came from, they were small stacks of resources I don't think I was selling... the problem is, these items didn't go into my stockroom at ALL... even if I view Stockroom for the entire galaxy... they ONLY show up in the bazaar available items area, taking up space, but they are in Corellia, Corellia so totally unretrievable.
*sigh*
The whole system really needs a LOT of work.
Its a great idea, and works pretty well when it works, but when it doesn't... ugh.
Actually, I'm not sure that they got 'deleted' manually... I think there might be a shelf-life of 7 days in the stockroom, similiar to on the market... once this time expires, the items seem to disappear.
I'm not sure if this applies to items in a stockroom on an EXISTING vendor or not, or if it only applies to items stuck in limbo or unretrievable... but all of my unretrievable and limbo items have faded after about 7 days. I haven't left a retrievable item in the stockroom that long, so I don't know if they would go away or not... I'd definitely not assume they are safe for long periods there, though, until you test this yourself. 
After beating the heck out of the hired help for stealing my goods...
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I was able to retrieve the items by doing this (your results may vary):
Goto the stockroom, put the item(s) you were trying to retrieve back up for sale. Then try to retrieve again. This worked for me.
(as a side note, since the reason I took the items off the list was due to mistyping the amount I wanted to sell for, I left most of the items for sale in the vendor at myintended vendor cost. I did verify that someone was able to buy the stuck items AND retrieve them successfully before leaving them up.
Joplin Be'Nira
JB Mines Inc.
Bulk Sales available just west of Mos Eisley (Tarquinas)
Dieing on far away worlds so you don't have to!
JazzmanianDevil wrote:
Of course, having read Holo's comments on the main board, we know that's a lie. They are *not* "working diligently to correct it" because it's not a priority issue at this time and there is no ETA as to when they will even begin to address it.
Theres no doubt in my mind that this bug is gonna be a major PiA to fix for the DEVs.. I pray they fix it as soon as possible, but regardless of time, fix it so I don't lose my merchandise!
I also curiously enough had the stuff in the limbo space "spat out" into my regular stockroom space today, after 5 days. Whether that's something natural in the game engine--I was thinking that perhaps those sales naturally expired from wherever they were being held--or part of a dev effort--I'm glad it happened. Sounds like this is happening for other people. Still means you'll have to wait 7 days, which if it's something expensive is a long time to wait...