There are SO MANY different posts about the SAME issue, I decided to merger them together. Hopefully the development team will see this thread and make changes to the global trading market! And with all the posts being in one place make it easier on EA team to find them all.

Having an option to choose between factory items, store items and special items (expansion/disaster) will make the market much more balanced and provide actual stock for purchase by MANY MORE players, opposed to complete randomness that is happening now.

It's kinda crazy that cancelling auction items means that the item is lost. Thats double punishment: pay 1 simcash AND destroy your item.

any type of filter would do wonders. With the limited random market options, finding specific materials and purchasing them in a timely manner is increasingly frustrating

How come when you post a item in the market, even for the absolute maximum it always gets sold. I want to have a competitive marketplace, not something full of users posting the MAX price for every item; with the sole intention of the items being bought up automatically by the system. If another user doesn't buy your item before it expires it should go back to your inventory or given the option to discard them. Generating free gold is hurting game play between friends and the global market. If you fix this then people will have to think about how much they are going to sell and for how much, prompting a more diverse game play when it comes to advertising your goods and making simoleons off of other users. And if you think about it, it makes it possible for people to think about buying gold; considering it's not a day or two wait for a guaranteed payout. This definitely should have been fixed by now.

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Global Trade Market...questions...concerns...complants!!!

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Anonymous
11 years ago
qg the trade is too small , the demand for certain items is much higher than the amount that you can find.
increased please let slot in qg or differenziatelo for nations or continents .
Anonymous
11 years ago
For past 1 day i have been trying to buy storage tray at the global trade HQ and for purchasing I have visited countless other cities. Every time I get reply "there is nothing to sell" or "sorry, the item is no more available for sale". It is extremely frustrating as I cannot get the item naturally in the game by reading citizen messages (the game occasionally stops giving one type of item for couple of days) nor I can buy it. The game is stuck. The only way out is to buy each tray for 18 simcash but I think this is very crude way.
EA can charge a one time fee like whatsapp but asking money to pay for trade HQ bugs is very bad.
Anonymous
11 years ago
We should have a thing where you can order items in the depo and after some time you get them
Elenoe
11 years ago
@gppande wrote:

EA can charge a one time fee like whatsapp but asking money to pay for trade HQ bugs is very bad.
it's not bad for EA is it? They make this utter trash market in every of their games so you are frustrated enough to pay real money for items you need. Sorry to say but that something is bugged or not working at all was never a reason to fix it or even care. That's how it is. Ever was. And ever will be. Posting on support forum won't change anything. You want the item, you pay money.
And yes. It's very frustrating trying to get one item for 6h of useless clicking and waiting for "not available" message.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I have almost had it. I love this game, and have almost 300K in my little city (MeiMei Village). But almost every time I attempt to look for something in the Global Trade Market (as an aside, I rarely if ever buy what I need - when I go to a city the product advertised is NEVER still there) - the game crashes.
Whatever it is, a glitch a bug - whatever - it renders the game nearly unplayable. I will hit the Global Market and visit one neighboring city - CRASH. Restart the game, open a neighboring city CRASH. Open game again, just merely open the Global Market - CRASH.
I have deleted and reinstalled. I have restarted my phone. I have cleared my cache and data. Nothing works. Please help!
Balflears
11 years ago
È impossibile comprare qualcosa nel mercato. Sembra ci siano dei bot automatici che acquistato tutto il materiale in meno di 3 secondi. Bisogna fare a gara per comprare qualcosa. Mercato totalmente inutile per gli acquirenti. Il dito più veloce? Mi dispiace il mercato non ha veramente senso. Le persone non guardano il prezzo del materiale ma si limitano solamente a vedere l'immagine e comprano ad occhi chiusi senza porsi nessun dubbio riguardo il prezzo. Non ci sono indecisioni o inflazioni ma solamente uno solo scopo: "compra compra compra prima che lo facciano altri". Un consiglio che vi posso dare è non mettere limiti di prezzo sui materiali, questo dovrebbe aumentare l'inflazione è recare alle persone indecisioni e quindi darebbe un po' di tregua. Così oltre che vedere l'immagine e comprare ad occhi chiusi le persone guarderanno anche il prezzo. Se conviene comprare oppure no.

It is impossible to buy something in the market . There seem to be of automated bots that bought all the material in less than 3 seconds. You have to start a race to buy something . Market totally useless for buyers . The fastest finger ? I'm sorry the market has not really make sense . People do not look at the price of the material but are limited to only see the image and buy with your eyes closed without posing any doubt about the price . No indecision or inflations but only one sole purpose : "buy buy buy before anyone else does ." One tip I can give you is do not put price limits on materials , this should increase inflation bear personal indecision and then give a little ' truce . So in addition to seeing the image and buy with their eyes closed people will look at the price . If you should buy or not.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I lost nine carbs because I could not sell the quantities announced. Only managed to remove them throwing items in the trash. Is there any way to cancel the sale without losing the items?
PS: Sorry but i used google translator because my english is very poor.
Anonymous
11 years ago
No, but the will eventually sell. Daniel should buy them.
Anonymous
11 years ago
agreed with reply,
There is no current way, you just have to wait for daniel to buy them.
Though that could be a few days.
Anonymous
11 years ago
yes its a problem, you have to choose quick, within milliseconds of the clicking inside the trade
when inside the shop, you have to click immediately.
Still even with this technique many items gone.
no workaround

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