add "Equipment and Bags" as a 3rd option for Character Trade

This suggestion concerns the website tab called Trade, specifically the Character Trade section

as of right now, there are only 2 options when posting a character for sale. These options are: "Equipment only" and "Full inventory".

"Equipment only", accounts for the items that you are currently wearing and does not consider items currently on Bags or Bank. Only if the character is successfully sold, then the new owner would receive it without anything on Bags or Bank. If the seller change his mind and withdraw the character from sale, every item in bags and bank are kept just as he left.

The option "Full inventory" takes in consideration all the items in your Bags and Bank, and the minimum price gets ramped up the more junk/alternative gear you keep in there. So whenever players want to sell characters with Main Spec gear and Off Spec gear or Pvp gear as an extra, they are forced to do a PRE-CLEANUP with any extra items that they have anywhere, just so the minimum price can account only for the intended "useful" gear. Unlike the first option with "Equipment only", the character is permanently damaged right upon posting, since this second option requires the deletion of all extra stuff from Bags/Bank to post it with just certain gear pieces.

The nature of this second trade option, often discourage players from even trying to sell certain characters because of the permanent damage of even trying to do so, while also being uncertain of the success of the sale and the incapability to change their mind after the alternative items are already deleted.


To resolve this, would be nice if there is a 3rd option called "Equipment and Bags". The idea is as it says: a posting method that accounts for items in your backpack + 4 equipped bag slots, but disregard items that are kept in the Bank (and bags from bank). This way, people can be motivated to try and trade their characters with most valuable gear, without being forced to pre-delete the not so valuable gear. And just like method one (Equipment only), the Bank items would only disappear for the buyer upon the successful sale.

Worth to remind that every completed sale through Trade system also acts both as a "coin sink" (because of website fee), as well as a "gear sink" (because of the items that are left out of the deal, are gone forever). And both these sinks are healthy for the server on the long term

I would second that. I sold a main toon recently that I had for 7 years I think. The bank was just overflowing with transmog pieces and cool items I collected from holidays or wherever. There were items I definitely would've included in the sale to help it, but I didn't want to delete anything in case it didn't sell. So I did it equipment only and it ended up selling lightning fast anyway cause it had like 11k achievement points. I would've liked more flexibility in that though.

Great idea.

1st option: Equipment
2nd option: Equipment and Inventory (emblems included)
3rd option: Equipment, Inventory, Bank


You put the gear you dont want to sell in the bank and if you fail to sell the character you just re-equip the items and farm some more. Good for the economy.