I have already extensively covered my dislike of the concept of specifically adding a feed that includes "who sold X" data due to abuse potential in the other thread so I'm not going to go back into that. I'm simply going to note that attempting to frame the data via "You'll know the stall but not the current owner in this feed" is not a particularly meaningful abstraction in an environment where A) regular player merchants are going to effectively have the same stall rented out for weeks or months on end, B) people often advertise their stalls or uncommon goods in trade chat, and C) you have to actually go visit the stall to modify/update the inventory/get your cash out, so you can't really be incognito about the whole 'running a shop' thing if you want to actually do anything other than host a largely nonreactive inventory dump.
#nvm
pale valley
pale valley
The first time someone has an item sold for 50% of "normal" price and another stall sells a copy of that item in the near future for a higher price, you're going to have people going "Hmm, that looks like reselling!" It's prime witch hunt fodder due to a lack of complete context. This is not a farfetched scenario by any means.
The only ways to prevent misinterpretation in this environment if you're exposing specific sell data are A) completely account bind items on purchase, or B) expose some sort of unique backend item serial number on every single item (if it even exists) so these amateur detectives could audit the full providence of every item.
Like I said multiple times last thread. Anonymized price feed to avoid people lowballing themselves out of ignorance? Great! Do it! Attaching identifying information to this feed? Abusable and bad! Don't do it!
How do you know where I got that glaring amulet I have listed for 30k? Did it come from the stall on the other side of the market that had one for 10k? Did I get it from an egg run? Did Firaki have one in her used tab? Was it in the farm shed in Vidaria? You don't know. Nobody knows but me. I'm not obligated to give that information. But you can go "Well shit, Bob sold an amulet for 10k and Syreeta is reselling it!" You have incomplete information, but you have enough information to be wrong.
If there's a feed that says "Glaring amulet x1 sold for 10k" and a later entry of "Glaring amulet x1 sold for 30k" then someone's going to have a learning experience in that they can find out that there is theoretically a market for amulets at the higher price, but it's anonymized and nobody can try to connect dots.
The community's getting a bit pitchforky about reseller and work order behaviors already and you're asking me to assume that everything will be used innocuously and only when there's enough data points to convict in a court of law. You'll have to forgive me for not sharing that degree of optimism. Again, I've outlined this before and I'm not going to keep restating my point, it's not my decision to make.