Whats with the advertisers...

visitor

visitor

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Kronos HQ

W/

Well i was trading in kaineing and i couldnt help to notice that people spelled WTS and WTB differently to avoid going to party search.
Now why would anyone want to do such a thing?

Goldleader

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mo/Me

Good question. The main reason is because the WTB/WTS party search thingy has a character limit that makes it difficult to sell multiple items.

If you want to advertise 4 items, it is virtually impossible to do so with the current WTB/WTS chat setup. With WTB/WTS you have I believe a 15 or 20 character limit. If you bypass the WTB/WTS system, you can go back to typing as much as you need to say.

Usually if I want to sell an item, I'll start with my best item:

WTS 20/20 spear mod for 12k
The above gets my ad on all the servers.

I then follow-up with:
Selling a 20/20 spear mod for 12k | steel ingots @ 200ea | bone, iron, cloth | req13 fire dragon sword for 4k

See, big difference in how much you can say.

Solas

Solas

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Ireland

Currently LF Active HA Guild, Glad 2, Comm.3, R2

E/

could be to be more noticed as in if you see

WTB
WTB
WTB
WTB
\/\/T|3
WTB
WTB
WTB

obviously the \/\/T|3 sticks out more, also they could have been using all chat, WTB auto changes the sentance to trade chat.

princess of teddys

princess of teddys

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

The oblique magical animal[CUTE]

Me/

What IS Wtb?

I Might Avenge U

I Might Avenge U

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2005

California

R/

want - to - buy

Kook~NBK~

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Mar 2005

A little chalet outside Drok's

Natural Born Killaz

WTB = Want to Buy

Eldin

Eldin

Forge Runner

Join Date: Dec 2005

America. How about you, commie?

Fellows of Mythgar [FOM]

R/Mo

WTB = Want to Buy

WTS = Want to Sell

WTT = Want to Trade

visitor

visitor

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Kronos HQ

W/

Ok thanksky for the replies. I just thought they were being annoying.

Elementer Masta

Elementer Masta

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Texas

Leet Pwnzorxz of Pwnington [PWND]

P/

I usually spell out "Buying" and "Selling" as most useless abbreviations and acronyms annoy me. It is also more noticeable in the busy districts.

lucifair

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Canada

[NErd]

N/Mo

just make sure if ur spelling it differently that u send the message to trade chat...because only wtb, wts, and wtt messages switches it automatically, and if u dont manually switch it to avoid the party search then ull end up getting a ticket

Darkobra

Darkobra

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Elementer Masta
I usually spell out "Buying" and "Selling" as most useless abbreviations and acronyms annoy me. It is also more noticeable in the busy districts.
Thank you. You're my hero.