RMAH gold sale problem

[simonak]

Anyone got a problem after selling some gold and receiving email with the transaction
and the amount you should recieve and then got tranfer to paypall with less money?

I did couple sale without any problem but Im scared to open ticket and get posible flaged for running a bot.

[Ledoocat]

So phone them instead, they don't have time to check every single question to see if you bot. Do you have any idea how many calls/tickets they get per day?

Me either.

But it's a lot.

[simonak]

Its only $4 difference so I just wondering if anyone else had the same problem.

Only info I founded on a official forums wasn't promising.

I sold some gold and was supposed to receive my money as it finished the whole processing ordeal. When I checked Paypal, the amount I received is lower than what it should have been. I opened a ticket and asked about it but all they could say and tell me is they don't have the power to change any of this and that I should open a bug report.

[Mortox]

I don't know if Blizzard has officially revealed the inner workings of how the RMAH works in regards to Gold sales, but I'm guessing that since it's a 'commodity' and you're going to have the market absolutely flooded with the stuff, being posted in various amounts by various players, that what happens is the gold is pooled based on price and time of posting (first posted first paid sort of thing) and then after a set amount of time Blizzard pays out these players in waves.

Basically what I mean is, if you post up for example 42,500,000 gold for sale at $0.25/100k and a thousand other people also post up various amounts of gold for $0.25/100k, and then people come and buy gold for $0.25/100k, they might not be strictly getting YOUR gold when they buy, but a chunk of gold from some of the people that listed at the same time as you. So if a player comes and buys 27,000,000 he might get 10,500,000 of YOUR gold, 5,000,000 of another guys gold, 10,000,000 of a third guys gold, and 1,500,000 from a fourth person to make up the 27M. Once the bulk of YOUR gold has sold (there's probably some internal threshold) you get paid, and whatever portion didn't sell is returned to you.

edit: With that said, I think it's important NOT to cancel your RMAH Gold sales before the auction expiration time. If this is in fact how Blizzard is handling the processing, then by cancelling an auction prematurely, you will be pulling yourself out of the pool and will not get paid anything. If your gold is priced at $0.25/100k always let the time expire - your gold may be already sold but the system has just not updated/paid yet.

[Tyranie909]

Also don't forget it's 30% total tax for gold sales. Mortox is right on the money though. Sold over 100 mil this week on ah and all sold in the last hour before expired.

[x00x]

With that said, I think it's important NOT to cancel your RMAH Gold sales before the auction expiration time. If this is in fact how Blizzard is handling the processing, then by cancelling an auction prematurely, you will be pulling yourself out of the pool and will not get paid anything. If your gold is priced at $0.25/100k always let the time expire - your gold may be already sold but the system has just not updated/paid yet.

i have had commodities sell as portions and been paid then; ie. listed 50 of commod xxx, 38 sell, i get a transaction report, other 12 remain on ah.