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I love your idea on how to make the market better. I support it 100% and would love to get a BB respond.

I think it is a great idea to tax players that aren't sold. the amount of tax should be a percentage of the starting price. That will completely discourage people that are bored so they just decide to transfer list one of their players at immense prices.

I totally agree with you
Particularly about player players with a few skills.
looks like they just wait you to make a mistake by clicking on the button.

Everything that can be done to prevent cheating on the tranqfer market should be done.

Well, sometimes, very good players are also put very high in the market in order to warn everyone that he can be transferred if there are good propositions.
These ones are not part of the problem, but I suppose that they have to do as everyone else and just exepct that their player leave at the right price, and that those interested have the money at that moment.

I support the tax on non-sold players too. It would make people think twice about listing above market (speculating), and as bonus would provide the BB's another way to take money out of the economy (by adjusting the tax). I suggest you suggest it in the suggestions forum.

I think the market is in a state of change. Money is not being spent and people are not selling at the correct prices.

Until the market is settled a little bit more the BBs are not likely to introduce something that wil drive prices higher again

I think it is a great idea to tax players that aren't sold. the amount of tax should be a percentage of the starting price. That will completely discourage people that are bored so they just decide to transfer list one of their players at immense prices.

wow this is a great idea. I love it too. I see so many way overpriced players and that makes looking for normally priced players so much harder to do. I dont think they will implement this. sorry to be negative, but i feel the rate they fix problems or implement great ideas is extremely slow. example ppl loging out all the time, we have finally found the cause for this and can reproduce the problem and still noone has replied to our findings on the bug forum.

the guys are saying exactly the oposite. they dont want the prices to go up or meassures that drive prices up they want the prices to go down. and their idea will bring prices down.

I can show you numerous players that are being way over priced. some off these players have been on the market for months. teams dont really want to sell for a fair price, like some people said they are trying to make an unfair amount off profit.

in my opinion there are 2 reasons why this is wrong and killing the transfer market.

1.this is being done by the same players, over and over again. off course without fees they will keep doing this and at some point sell. cashing in big money and than spending it on the top top top players that are out there. taking out the majority off the money from the TL, because most off the money will be in the hands off these very few players.

2.like the guy mentioned that started this post. the people that arent doing this practise are people that are looking for and only can afford the 20 players or so from the 80 listed with a fair price. this means the price on these 20 will be driven up too. normally not a problem, but with 60 players listed with a too high transfer price this does cause a problem.

I do hope they will do something about this, because looking on the TL is a very unpleasant experience in BB. But I know as well, that this wont happen, because whole communities will complain and treaten to stop their supportership and because there are many more important things that need to be fixed, like always being logged out and the match viewer problems we have had thelast 3 game days...

Hope BB don´t hit the market again, the pices are stabilized now.

i would suggest to put this post on the suggestion forums and i will reply to it, saying i support your idea.

To just go over my point a bit more. I wasn't referring to what they wanted I was saying what would be more likely to happen.

This measure wouldn't drive the prices down it will reduce the number of players on the transfer market, which from my experience drives the prices up.

If the BBs are going to consider a revised version of this it is more likely to be something that favours people starting bidding at a low price and punishing those who set a high price.

For example:

Team 1 posts Player 3 to the Transfer market at $500,000. Player 3 has a 97% sale profit.
Player 3 gets sold for $1,000,000

Team 2 posts Player 4 to the Transfer market at $0. Player 4 has a 97% sale profit
Player 4 gets sold for $1,000,000

If the sales profit percentage is used as an upfront tax instead of a final tax we would see the following:
Team 1 pays $15,000 tax
Team 2 pays $0 tax

Currently the teams would both pay $30,000

But yes this is starting to be a suggestion. So we should move this discussion to the Suggestion Forum

I don't get it.

The idea of this tax only refers to player that are not sold.
Therefore for your 2 examples, there would be no more tax than the 3% already existing.


On the contrary, if both would not be sold, there would be a tax :

- over the Player 3 (and why not only if the price is not btewwen the BB estimation. Right now, it would not be necssarily good because Bb estims are not everytime fair, but with this suggestion, prices would become more fair and BB-estims too).

- And not more tax for the player for 4 than the one already existing.

This is more à preventive tax than an executive tax, according to what I understood

Last edited by Dunker Joe at 2/20/2010 9:37:14 AM

oh it is still oppen, i though this thread got closed soon and reopened in the suggestion board ;)

So if it welcome here i will post the probelems i see with it, because it force people to list player under value which i wouldn't recommend(and i am sure the BB said that from time to time too).

Problem 1. This system will work in the prime time, but not for people whoare online during time with fewer online users.
To make a fair price through a bidding war, you need at least 2 player who like to pay a fair price during prime time you normally find a bunch of people who are regulating a bunch of player - but in the "european" night you will often have player who runn out and who maybe have none or just one interest who like to pay a fair price. So the manager is forced to list him several times, or sell him under the value.

Problem 2. The bidding wars start few minutes before a player runs out, and the servers are unstable. I like to explain this point more sopecific, i liked to buy a cheap player last wednesday/thursday, and have also follewed manys of Free Agent and the auction normally running like that 10min before the auction end the price was often below the half of the price when the auction was finished(in my case at the beginn 500-700k end 1.4-2.1 Mio). This in combination with instable servers, who crushed the Transferlist several time lead to lots of player selled under value. If you sell a guy, and loose 1-2 Mio ebcause of it you get angry thats why also the BB say list the player for a price you like to sell him.

Problem 3. Bids from friends. if you have friends, you could pay less fee in listing the player for 0$ and let them make a early bid(a bit under value but not that much, that case 2 hurt you much)