Dune: Awakening Auction House Guide

What the Exchange is

The Exchange is the player-driven trading system - a listing market, not an NPC shop. There are no NPC auctioneers or market makers: every offer is another player’s listing. Terminals are located at Arrakeen and Harko Village, and you must be physically at the terminal with the item in your inventory to list it.

Two consequences follow. You cannot list from anywhere, and you cannot list from storage. Anything you want to sell has to be carried to a terminal in person, and the trip itself has a cost: either Solari for travel or your own ornithopter to fly there.

Listing rules & fees (official mechanics)

The rules below come from Funcom’s official help documentation.

• List only from a terminal at Arrakeen or Harko Village, in person, with the item in your inventory.
• Occupation fee: 20 Solari per day, per listing.
• Price fee: 2% on day 1, then 1% per additional day.
• Maximum 20 offers per player.
• Completed offers expire after 30 days if you never claim them.
• Sold items and your income are collected from the My Orders tab.
• All tiers are listable, unique items included.
• Buy orders: none observed - this is a listing-only market (single-source, verify in game).

Rule	Official value
Occupation fee	20 Solari per day per listing
Price fee on day 1	2%
Price fee each later day	1%
Offer cap	20 per player (active, expired, cancelled and sold all count)
Unclaimed completed offers	Expire after 30 days
Where you collect income	My Orders tab
Listable tiers	All tiers, including unique items
Buy orders	None observed; listing-only market

Read that table as a checklist before you travel to a terminal. If the item is in storage rather than your inventory, the trip is wasted. If your offer count is already at the cap, the terminal will not take another listing until it drops.

How fees change while a listing sits

The two fees behave differently, and the split is what makes longer listings expensive.

Listing day	Price fee charged that day	Occupation fee that day
Day 1	2% of your asking price	20 Solari
Day 2	1% of your asking price	20 Solari
Day 3	1% of your asking price	20 Solari
Day 4 and later	1% of your asking price each day	20 Solari each day

Call your asking price P. Day 1 costs you 2% of P plus 20 Solari. Every day after that costs 1% of P plus 20 Solari. The percentage part scales with price; the occupation part does not.

That gives you a clean decision rule. For a cheap item, the flat daily charge is the danger - it keeps accruing whether or not anyone is interested, so list it short and price it to move. For an expensive item, the percentage is the danger, so the longer you hold out the more of your headline price the fee schedule takes. In both cases, a listing that sits is a listing that is losing money.

The offer cap is a portfolio decision

You can hold 20 offers at a time, and the count includes active, expired, cancelled and sold offers. That last part catches people out: a sale you never claimed still occupies a slot.

So treat the cap as a portfolio. Before a selling session, open My Orders and clear everything finished. Then decide what deserves a slot - a handful of high-value listings you are actively watching, rather than a pile of low-value items you will forget about. Also remember that unclaimed completed offers expire after 30 days, so income can disappear if you leave it sitting.

Reaching the terminal

Getting to Arrakeen or Harko Village is a real cost, not a formality. You pay Solari for travel, or you fly your own ornithopter and spend the time instead.

Plan one trip and list everything at once. Carrying a full inventory of sale goods to the terminal is more efficient than making repeated journeys, and it keeps your slot usage deliberate. If you sell often, this trip is part of your routine, not an occasional errand.

Cross-Sietch Market Trading

Exchange trading is World-wide: players across the Sietches of one World trade together. Prices are therefore World-specific - the same item can cost differently on different Worlds, so advice from another World may simply not apply to yours.

There is no price history feature in-game, and no legitimate way to publish a live per-World feed. The listing board at the terminal is your only current source of truth. This site documents the fixed fee mechanics and provides a listing calculator rather than quoting prices.

What we don’t know

The absence of a buy-order system is an observation, not an official statement. We note it as single-source and are verifying it in game.

We also do not publish live prices, for two reasons: Funcom ships no market API, and the rules of conduct forbid scraping the game or altering its traffic. Crossplay remains undated, which matters if you are holding listings on a console World and waiting to trade across platforms. Where a figure is not official, we mark it.

Console specifics

Nothing about the Exchange changes on console - same terminals, same fee schedule, same World-wide pool, and the same offer cap.

The one practical difference is interface speed. Sluggishness reported on PS5 is most noticeable when browsing listings, so give yourself a little extra time at the terminal. See the PS5 performance guide for that side of it.

For the currency itself, read What is Solari; for what is worth listing, see Schematics and the current week’s Mk6 schematics database. The Market hub holds the listing-fee calculator.

How to read this page: every fee, the offer cap, the 30-day expiry, the My Orders claim step, the listable-tier rule and the two terminal locations come from the official Funcom help center. The pricing and slot-management advice below that line is our reasoning for an independent fan site, not an official Funcom statement.