Inflated Shihei Prices hmmmmm......

[Eri]

So theres a few Servers that have like 45k-60k per stack Toolbags.
BUT some Servers are at like 100-150k per... i was like omg....

I would like to see an NPC Who sells Shihei for say 50 Gil a piece and its gotta be a standart Merchant, 4950 Gil Per Single stack I can deal with that....
seems like a reasonable Price.

AND If Crafters want to make Money with these again, underbid the npc. Hell it would take me a week or two to get WW 60 but... i don't wanna...
yea thats mebbe cuz im lazy :P

Its Daylight robbery nothing else, Hell THF's start subbing /dnc cuz of this, major loss of skill because ppl dont wanna buy inflated tools? Maybe.... i still buy my tools and will keep buying them but seeing ppl not /nin because of that in random shout groups aint helping the Game either.

Plz give give you Comments on this in a halfways decent manner. Im not into getting flamed :P

[Anethia]

I completely agree with you. I'm on one of the servers where shihei has breeched the 100k mark. It's robbery cause it takes less than 30k to make a stack of toolbags.

Unfortunately you will get trolled by the crafter's who say "supply and demand", which is quite frankly a load of horse crap. The supply of this particular item has never been low enough, long enough, at any point to warrant the current prices.

[Mirage]

It is supply and demand. If someone could craft them for 30k and sell them for 80k instead, they'd make buckets of money.

It only costs 100k because people are willing to pay 100k.

Level the craft and sell cheaper shihei instead of complaining .

However, in the process, you might feel like wanting to earn back all the money you pumped into leveling the craft high enough to HQ consistently, and sell it for a huge profit instead.

Also, i'm not a crafter. My two highest crafts are lv 1, and one of them is fishing.

[Neofire]

It is supply and demand. If someone could craft them for 30k and sell them for 80k instead, they'd make buckets of money.

It only costs 100k because people are willing to pay 100k.

Level the craft and sell cheaper shihei instead of complaining .

However, in the process, you might feel like wanting to earn back all the money you pumped into leveling the craft high enough to HQ consistently, and sell it for a huge profit instead.

Also, i'm not a crafter. My two highest crafts are lv 1, and one of them is fishing.

See this kind of crap that is wrong with the community, instead of encouraging people not take advantage of others you got people like this doing the opposite. Its sad really and to the OP its probably best to find s friend that will craft them for you lvl and craft your own

[Mirage]

Why is it crap? People level crafts to make money. If people are willing to pay 100k, why should a crafter lose 50k per sell by selling them for 50k instead?

I sure as hell wouldn't.

Just like I wouldn't sell a Raise 3 scroll for 200k when i can get 750k for it on my server.

[wish12oz]

you can buy the universal tool for 19k/stack in port bastok if you think shihei is overpriced or you're getting the shaft by crafters.

[Eri]

I'm personally not WILLING to pay 100k , but i do pay 100k since i rather waste my Money then
acting like a a DBag and put to mutch HP lost on the ppl that got to heal me.
I got 90WHM myself and i aint gonna act stupid to save Money everyone benefits from winning fights ~ unless a RMT or something mebbe hihi ~ the Prices aint reasonable and someone has to do something about this, like add a random npc that sells em...

[Mirage]

Well, then you are willing to pay 100k.

How fast do you burn through 1200 shihei anyway? I'm sure you would have earned enough cruor/CP/IS in that time to earn back the money you spent.

A good exp run in abyssea should let you earn around 100k cruor, which you can turn into about 200k gil. Enough for 2400 shihei.

Or spend those 200k gil and try leveling a craft and cash in on the overpriced shihei yourself.

And there is an NPC who sells universal toolbags, they cost 20k each, making for 240k for a stack.

[Andylynn]

you can buy the universal tool for 19k/stack in port bastok if you think shihei is overpriced or you're getting the shaft by crafters.

Lol? Its ~18k a BAG, not stack in Bastok. If anything that'd be ripping yourself off more... yet helping the economy due to being a coin sink. Regardless, shihei prices are dumb, I've always wanted nin tools to be a quested KI you could just farm, and use the spell infinitely. Consumable magic is a horrible idea in practice.

[rog]

(almost) anyone can make shihei, if they want to. If those crafters were really making so much money, someone else would start making it, and compete with them, which would increase supply, and therefore lower the price. This would continue until the price dropped to a point that it was no longer worth making, at which point the price would stabilize, at a point that is favorable for the buyers, since all the sellers would be competing to sell their products.

The prices are high because if they sold for less, they would not be worth the effort to make. Everyone who is interested in making gil can obviously make more gil by doing something else, otherwise the price would be lower.

An economics class would do some of you a lot of good.