Tax
Personally, I don't see any purpose in the tax applied to sales of articles or players. First of all. Its a bias one sided implementation. The seller is taxed for sales. While the buyer is not. I can...
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The tax is meant to provide diminishing returns for people who flip cards on the AH.
It prevents people from buying a bunch of cards at 5k each and relisting for 5.1k. It's not a perfect system. But in a larger scale, if you buy a sought after card for 200k, and you want to make coins from reselling it, your break even price is 210k. So you'd be listing at 220k for only 10k profit.
Chances are, people who see the price of 220k won't buy though.
It means that you really have to know what cards are listed at below market value to make coins.
Its not a matter of its intention. Its the reality of the loss for everyone selling, as opposed to buying. One sided coin.
I do understand the premise you are making here. But let's look at it in another venue. The packs. Over priced, with odds that are truly against you pulling a decent card. If one is lucky, they may exceed the cost of the pack with the content it holds. But thats rare. Usually the value of the content is worth half the cost. They do not upgrade the contents of these packs, where cards like 79 to 85 should be expired. Especially since the cost either rises, or stays the same. Now the value of those lower rated cards has decreased as time goes on, but they still fill packs with them. Ea has no problem taking from you, whether its the pack cost, or tax. So when I say the tax is nothing more than a scam, cloaked in absurd logic. Its why it serves no purpose, other than deleting your coins, so you will be directed to other avenues, like buying.
