# Marketplace On the **Marketplace** you trade **equipment** with other players. Payment is exclusively in **gems**. Unlocked from **chapter 3**, together with equipment. ## Listing an offer You list a piece from your [Storage](https://mebulalegends.bitmeup.com/wiki/en/guide/storage/) with a **starting bid**. If you like, you also set a **buyout price**. It must be higher than the starting bid. These pieces cannot be listed: - equipped pieces, - pieces assigned to another one of your teams (for example team 2 or 3), - locked pieces. | Simultaneous own listings | Slots | |---|---| | Base | **8** | | with Mebula Plus | **12** | | from [VIP](https://mebulalegends.bitmeup.com/wiki/en/guide/vip/) 4 | +2 | | from VIP 8 | another +2 | | Duration | Fee factor | |---|---| | 6 hours | × 0.5 | | 1 day | × 1 | | 3 days | × 2 | - **Listing fee:** 1 % of the asking price times the duration factor, at least 5 gems. The buyout price counts, or the starting bid if there is no buyout, rounded down to whole gems. The fee is due when listing and is forfeited whether the item sells or not. From **VIP 6** you permanently pay only **0.5 %**. - **Sales tax:** 10 % of the hammer price, paid by the seller. Buying is free of fees. - You can only withdraw a listing while **no bid** has come in. ::: info The Marketplace is the game's biggest gem sink Fee and tax are **destroyed**, not redistributed. ::: ## Bidding and buyout - Every bid must exceed the current standing by at least **5 %**. - **Bids lock your gems immediately.** If you are outbid, you get them back right away. A bid cannot be taken back. - A bid in the **last 2 minutes** extends the auction by 2 minutes. - A **buyout** ends the auction. The piece lands in your Storage right away and all previous bidders get their gems back. If you want to bid the buyout price or more, use the buyout directly. - If an auction ends with bids, the highest bid wins. Without a bid the piece returns to your Storage and the listing fee stays lost. Either way you get mail. ## The guide price and the price band Every piece has a **guide price** calculated from its base data and the **[purity](https://mebulalegends.bitmeup.com/wiki/en/guide/items/#quality) of the specific instance**, not from actual sales. An average of market activity could be pulled upward by arranged sales. **An offer must sit between 20 % and 500 % of the guide price.** ::: warning Why this bracket exists Without a price band the Marketplace would be a suitcase of cash: a second account lists a worthless ring for 200,000 gems, the main account buys it, and there is your arbitrary transfer. The band is the actual barrier against real-money trading; the fee merely makes it additionally unattractive. ::: There is also a hard ceiling of **1,000,000 gems** per price or bid. ## House offers So the market never runs dry, the Marketplace itself keeps at least **6 offers** running. They behave like player offers but do not come from a real account. ## History Your personal history keeps the last **50 events**, sales, purchases, outbid bids and expired listings.