Marketplace
The Marketplace is a feature of the game available to ranks Apprentice and above that enables hunters to anonymously buy and sell various items with other players using gold. Unlike the Cheese Shoppe or Trapsmith, the Marketplace is a peer-populated feature, meaning that hunters looking to buy or sell certain items are only able to find matching items that other hunters have put up for sale or requested to buy. The King charges a 10% gold tax to the purchaser on all items sold on the marketplace, paid by the buyer regardless of who initiated the transaction. The tariff is rounded up - a transaction for 1 gold costs the buyer 2 gold. Transactions are anonymous; there is no way to restrict a transaction to a particular hunter, or to know which hunter completed the transaction. A hunter defaults to having 3 available Buy and Sell transactions that hold the first half of a pending offer, and can gain more by holding the Lucky Golden Shield or obtaining the Regal Marketplace Display Case and Regal Marketplace Stool from the King's Arms General Store. After creating the first half of a transaction, a hunter will receive a notification of the action in the Hunter's Journal, and the item or gold will be unavailable in the hunter's inventory:
- I offered to buy 100 Curds and Whey for 3 gold each at the Marketplace.
- I have placed 330 gold in the Marketplace Vault (this includes the 10% tariff) and will receive my items when the order is fulfilled.
- I can view my listings at any time to cancel this offer and have my gold returned to me.
- I offered to sell 800 Curds and Whey for 14 gold each at the Marketplace.
- When fulfilled, I will receive 11,200 gold.
A hunter can cancel a transaction and receive their original item or gold back with no penalty. If the second half of the transaction completes, a hunter is given another Hunter's Journal message, along with a link to claim the transferred item:
- I purchased 100 Curds and Whey for 3 gold each at the Marketplace.
- I must claim them from the Marketplace.
- I sold 800 Curds and Whey for 14 gold each at the Marketplace.
- I must claim 11,200 gold from the Marketplace.
and once claimed another message appears:
- I claimed 100 Curds and Whey from spending 330 gold (including 10% tariff) at the Marketplace.
- I claimed 11,200 gold from selling 800 Curds and Whey at the Marketplace.
A hunter can perform the second half of a transaction as often as desired, without regards to how many transaction slots they have unlocked and with no limit on the number of transactions completed in a day; with these messages:
- I purchased 1 Salt for 5 gold at the Marketplace.
- I sold 1 Salt for 4 gold at the Marketplace.
The Marketplace is the only in-game feature that guarantees safe trades. However, hunters may also opt to use Give To Friends as a means of trading supplies. Also, there are several items which can be given to friends but not sold on the marketplace.
Supplies
Currently, hunters are able to exchange:
- NOTE: Wishing Well Basket was available for trading for a limited period of time.
- Winter Charm, Winter Screw Charm, Winter Spring Charm, and Winter Wood Charm were available for trade until 31 January 2012.
- The Dent collectible was available for trade during MouseHunt's Fourth Birthday Celebration
History
MouseHunt 3.0
- On 23 July 2014, the Marketplace underwent a revamp, where hunters could now post Buy offers, and have up to 5 Sell and 5 Buy offers pending simultaneously. The page changed to a popup window, including featured items based on activity and price changes, and hunters could view their entire history of marketplace transactions.
- On 21 June 2010, the Marketplace re-opened in MouseHunt 3.0, appearing under the Shops tab. This version of the Marketplace allows hunters to anonymously post offers selling SUPER|brie+, Moon and Maki cheese, and since 26 August 2010 Zugzwang's Left Socks, and since 11 November 2010 Ninja Ambush Skin, Grungy DeathBot Skin, Fluffy DeathBot Skin and Wishing Well Basket. There have been many other additions to the list of tradable items, especially skins and charms. Once a buyer has confirmed a purchase on an offered item, the seller receives a message on their Journal page instructing them to claim their gold at the Marketplace.
MouseHunt 2.0
With the update to MouseHunt 2.0, the Marketplace was unavailable to players and was replaced by the Trading Boards where only SUPER|brie+ could be traded. In this version, trades would be negotiated through the discussion boards. Once an exchange had been agreed upon, the seller would send a trade request to the buyer who would then confirm the purchase. Hunters could have up to three pending trade requests at any one time.
MouseHunt 1.0
When the Marketplace was first introduced, hunters were able to buy and sell the Key to the Town of Digby, the Burroughs Laboratory Map Piece, and SUPER|brie+. However, the Marketplace interface was the subject of numerous complaints regarding unavailability of goods and difficulty of trading. In MouseHunt 1.0, the Marketplace feature could be found in the shops tab of the game.
