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
Global Trade my butt. Global frustration if you ask me! Useless option in the game. Redesign please!
Anonymous
11 years ago
So, can we get an answer from EA Games on whether they are even considering fixing this issue? Would be happy if we at least didn't have to load each city to buy stuff. All cities are the same anyway. It's not like we're going to see a new landscape or different views. It's a waste of loading time.
Anonymous
11 years ago
This is the most frustrating aspect of the game. Just to add my voice to this concern. This needs to be upgraded ASAP.

It gets worse as you get into the higher levels as people start selling the useless (unless you love disasters) Vu batteries, remotes etc. even if you love to inflict the disasters on your city, you can't find any of the materials you need to rebuild on the market. It forces you to sit for hours and wait to build the items you are missing from scratch. Yawn. Makes me put the game away and do something else, and quickly lose interest.
please please please upgrade to Global Frustration Market.
Anonymous
11 years ago
It's an awful design, and combined with the ridiculous price points for buying SimCash (never mind if you were then daft enough to try and use that to buy Simoleons)... I'm just about ready to walk away from what could be a fun little time drain.
Think in future I'm going to just uninstall any iOS game that has a £79.99 IAP level. That shows how important I am to a company as a consumer - i.e. not important at all.
With this awful global market clearly the player experience is well down the list of priorities in this game!
Anonymous
11 years ago
Totally agree! It should be as fast as recognizing I don't have enough waste management or other need.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Please fix the market and the now i cant sell my stuff. Just all the sudden No body buy my things
Anonymous
11 years ago
There's a known issue with Trade Center items not showing up on the Global Market. If your items haven't sold, Daniel's city will buy them automatically after 24 hours. If the items still haven't sold, that means they are stuck in limbo (the bug), and have to be deleted. Sometimes exiting and reloading the game can make them reappear on the Global Market. To delete items, go into your Trade Center, click on the items you wish to delete and push the garbage can icon. It costs 1 simoleon. And you don't get the item back. Sometimes if your Trade Center is full, you don't have to delete all of them.just 1 or 2, because the other items will still be visible buy other players who look at your inventory.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I'm having that issue too. I have 16 items for sale, I have slowly advertised everything...but they have been sitting there for 2 days. I don't have any simoleons, so my only option would be to buy some with $$ and then pay to lose the items I have put for sale.
Not a great option.
Anonymous
11 years ago
The game is decent, but we need an editing inventory so we don't have to slide things from one side to the other. Anyone else think this would help?
Anonymous
11 years ago
"Daniels City" will buy your unsold items after 48 hours. You don't have to waste money to cancel unless you really want to.

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