Decrease the NPC buy price of some items!

[kewitt]

Ruby Ring May. 28, 2011 Kantaro Yoma 8,000
Pro-ether +1 May. 28, 2011 Robybaggio Yoma 2,000
Slice Of Land Crab Meat x12 May. 28, 2011 Weissmel Yoma 3,000
Slice Of Land Crab Meat x12 May. 28, 2011 Weissmel Yoma 3,000
Infinity Core May. 28, 2011 Oblaka Yoma 1,000
Infinity Core May. 28, 2011 Chun Yoma 1,000
Chrysoberyl May. 28, 2011 Mutenroushi Yoma 2,000
Pearl May. 28, 2011 Sparklight Yoma 1,000
Fiendish Skin May. 28, 2011 Miruye Yoma 1,000
Piece Of Wisteria Lumber x12 May. 28, 2011 Penello Yoma 75,000
Philosopher's Stone May. 28, 2011 Mutenroushi Yoma 3,000
Unicorn Horn May. 28, 2011 Omikun Yoma 1,000
Unicorn Horn May. 28, 2011 Roykeen Yoma 1,000
Antlion Jaw May. 28, 2011 Sanarin Yoma 2,000
Demon Horn May. 28, 2011 Fara Yoma 1,000
Coral Fragment May. 28, 2011 Calmer Yoma 1,000
Behemoth Horn May. 28, 2011 Tow Yoma 4,000
Spool Of Malboro Fiber May. 28, 2011 Moukaku Yoma 3,000
Lock Of Siren's Hair May. 28, 2011 Biscuitea Yoma 5,000
Lock Of Siren's Hair May. 28, 2011 Biscuitea Yoma 5,000
Square Of Raxa May. 28, 2011 Robybaggio Yoma 7,000
Jug Of Wool Grease May. 28, 2011 Latooni Yoma 6,000
Piece Of Oxblood May. 28, 2011 Castlex Yoma 12,000
Scroll Of Stone V May. 28, 2011 Perruche Yoma 5,000


Every item this person is buying off the AH he is turning around and selling to a NPC for profit.

Yes I know supply and demand but currently this is a hole RMT can fall into.

I would also include Scroll Of Absorb spells, and some raw crafting items. As a crafting have RMT bots buy up items only to NPC is a pain when there is already low supply on the AH. Take buffalo hides I've rased the price from 1k ah to 3k yet yoma still found the 1 on the AH for 1k. Yes there is a little better of a suply right now because the price is now around 3k but crafting from 41-43 has taken 4 weeks so far because of supply on a 3% drop rate. With being able to take 2 crafts to 100 or 80 points post 60 this is going to be even more of a pain.

Another options would be to have the AH auto buy something for min fame price. When you post something for below min NPC resale price you would get a warning this items is going to be auto sold.

Yes I know this is protecting the stupid but really sometimes it has to be done.

[Selzak]

I wouldn't consider buying low and selling high for a profit of less than 1,000 gil after taking the time to research and scour the AH for random items to be a "hole for RMT to fall into." Calm down.

[Meyi]

Anyone who buys gil now...well...

[Raksha]

There's a mule on my server who does that too.

http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Lakshmi/Lacusuu

obviously botting.

[Gadanae]

Anyone who buys gil now...well...

Would have to agree. I don't know anyone that buys gil anymore. Kinda pointless now with all the ways money can be made without farmng, or crafting. Just from regular play I go up in gil, not down. And part of that is because I NPC sell some things that make it to my inventory.

I say, leave the NPC sell prices alone. RMT really have not been a problem for quite some time. I doubt just because this one you found is doing that, the game balance is going to crumble because of it. Also, assuming that this person is an RMT could be wrong in itself. Could be a player. If he wants to camp the AH all day looking for stuff he can NPC for more, more power to him.

[Zyeriis]

I see absolutely no reason for this. If people are idiots, thats their problem. I'll be more than happy to buy stuff on the ah and npc it (and do) to turn a profit. Their loss is my gain, thats just simple economics (for idiots).

Unless of course you want people to buy all the items then re-sell them on the auction house for more (which is an actual RMT maneuver) then I see little reason to complain. Also, people think other people bot the Auction House to take advantage of morons selling cheaper than they can NPC for just to undercut other people? Lol, now I've heard it all. I'm sorry, theres this thing called notepad, you type stuff in it, like the names of items the aforementioned morons put on auction house for the aforementioned lower than you can NPC it prices.

If things are so common that they are getting sold for less than they're worth elsewhere, then chances are you can get the same item just as easily if some one is "taking advantage" of their stupidity. If anything those people buying said things to just NPC should be incentive to up your prices on those items (you know like some one with half a brain would do).

Edit: People that do this should be rewarded for having a degree of intelligence and that reward is already in place: the extra gil.

[Neisan_Quetz]

In the first place, if you were putting it on the AH when it NPCs better that's your fault for not maximizing gains and it's not his fault he's benefitting on people being not smart; Capitalism is a beautiful thing isn't it.

[Francisco]

Nothing needs to be done about this. These people did their research, and are making profit from it. I once made millions of gil in a week HQ Devotee's Mitts when they were selling for 400,000 gil. Pretty much the same thing... I researched it, found a huge supply of Zealot Mitts, no one making Devotee's +1... and there was a pretty high demand for them.

The synth cost about 7000 gil to do, and sold for up to 400,000 gil. Good thing you didn't catch on to me doing that, or you'd probably be screaming that SE needs to lower the drop rate of Zealot Mitts, or make the NM drop rare/ex Devotee's Mitts +1, or limit the attempts to make Devotee's Mitts +1 to once per conquest tally (maybe they can add a key item you need to try it!), or make it so all items on AH can only be sold for exactly 5% more than the NPC buy price.

The only "problem" I ever had with it... you could never get a piece of raxa from the AH because people always listed it for ~2000 gil less than the NPC price... but I guess those are the breaks.

[Yarly]

Guys, the auction house needs to be shut down. People are profiting, that has RMT written all over it!!!! HALP US SE!!!

[Malamasala]

I thought this thread was about the opposite. I really don't think armors with +34 def is worth 50 000 gil from NPCs just because I need to wear it in a quest or something. If this NPC tried to sell it on AH, it would be worth 10 000 gil tops, but now he is a NPC and he can take any price he wants to. (Or rather SE randomly picks)

It is just silly that NPCs sells junk for obscene amounts of gil.