After listening to Melancholy Smile's report, Shi Feng could not help but feel delighted.
He had waited a long time for this moment.
"Good! Have several advanced NPCs from the Arena take over the auction house's management immediately. After that, open the auction house and announce that we will only charge a 1% handling fee. As long as someone becomes a Zero Wing Auction House member, they can consign five items each day without any fees. To become a Zero Wing Auction House member, they only need to pay a one-time fee of 10 Magic Crystals," Shi Feng said with a faint smile. "It's also time for Red Iron Town to be eliminated."
"Guild Leader, isn't this a little too ruthless..." Melancholy Smile clicked her tongue slightly.
Auction houses in NPC cities generally charged handling fees of over 15%, while those in royal cities charged over 20%. They could be described as outrageously expensive. Red Iron Town charged a 10% handling fee. Though that was only 5% lower, selling an item worth 1 Gold would earn an additional 5 Silver Coins. Any item players were willing to put up for auction was usually quite valuable, so a 5% reduction in fees saved them a considerable amount of money.
Moreover, Red Iron Town's free mining fields had attracted many players, so quite a few players went there to sell items, making the town extremely lively.
Now that they charged only a 1% handling fee, they would be fortunate just to keep the auction house running. After all, the number of players in a town was limited, as was the number of items that could be sold each day. Furthermore, an auction house was a massive building and generally required several hundred NPCs to manage it. An advanced building like an Advanced