Selling esteem in a shop

Ardmore

So, just a simple question, I noticed that when I sell my esteem not all of it shows up. I just want to confirm it's intended to be this way.

If I have a figurine with 500 esteem... there will only be 475 for sale in my shop, a 5% loss.

I know there is loss when moving from one figurine to another, but I thought that was always on the part of the buyer, not the seller.

Can anyone provide clarification for this? I guess I just don't understand why 5% is missing.

Thanks

Xenthos

It shows at a -5% so that the buyer doesn't try to buy 500 units and only get 475; they will buy 500 units from your shop and actually get 500.

As far as shops go, it puts that on the seller end for "ease-of-use".

Ssaliss

That is the reason, yes. If someone buys 95 esteem from you, 100 is drained from your figurine. Thus, it shows the maximum amount that can be bought, not the amount that's in your figurine.

Xenthos

Nope.

That said, as a buyer I've always just paid for what I got (and not the 5% that gets lost).  So I've always operated the same way the shops do.

Ardmore

If they buy 95 and 100 is drained from my figurine - I should be paid for all 100, not just 95. Does this happen?

Ardmore

That doesn't make sense to me, but... ok.

Akyaevin

If I buy 100 units, and pay the price agreed for 100 units, I should get 100 units. I should not suddenly be out 5 units. The shopowner has the option to raise their prices 5% to cover the difference, which is much easier and more natural than requiring the buyer to remember they need to pay for 5% extra.

Kagato

The 5% "tax" has existed a long time now - it comes into play whenever you transfer esteem between figurines - so if you transfer 100 esteem from figurine A to figurine B, 95 will transfer and 5 will be lost. Same concept in shops, except the customer does not pay for the disappearing esteem, the tax is the owners responsibility.

Shaddus

Two things are certain in Lusternia: taxes and Shaddus.