Marketplace confessions

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Originally Posted by Lunaxia

My confession would be I'm fully aware what dyes NPCs do and don't sell but I'm so lazy that I'll probably pay 3k for a 40 gil bucket if it's too far away.

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Likewise. 3k is nothing for convenience. If you're profiting off that, help yourself.

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

Have you any idea how much of our economy is based on people not checking NPCs?

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Or people who know the item comes from an NPC, but are too lazy to travel for it. As long as you don't get greedy with the markup, a lot of people would rather pay a modest convenience tax than go get it themselves. There's nothing wrong with providing a service people obviously want!

Heres a good one that worked in my favor. Needed a couple everbright aethersand to craft. Noticed someone put 50 HQ of them on mb for $9.5k a piece. Normal going price was like 30k. Spent 450k on them, took what I needed and sold the rest back at regular price. Made a hefty profit out of it.

I sold a pot of pure white dye for 2.5 million, I put it up not expecting to sell.

I have also flogged a lot of shit from vendors, I've sold ash trays for nearly 250k.

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Originally Posted by Tizzy_Tormentor

I sold a pot of pure white dye for 2.5 million, I put it up not expecting to sell.

I have also flogged a lot of shit from vendors, I've sold ash trays for nearly 250k.

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Wow... yeah, that's surprising. Most I've seen it go for on my server is 400k or so.

When the extra Shirogane housing plots were released, I made about 4 mil in a day just selling housing items from the Shiro vendor.

if I notice someone constantly undercutting me I'll see how low they will drop their prices.

I'll keep dropping my prices until they are at least 50% below market value then I'll buy up their listings and relist everything at normal market price.

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Originally Posted by illgot

if I notice someone constantly undercutting me I'll see how low they will drop their prices.

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I do the same as a buyer. Like, if I want to buy a large quantity of something and feel it needs a "price adjustment" Ill just buy a couple and relist at a lower price + wait for people to undercut me.

Profiting off other peoples greed gives me a warm fuzzy feeling

I have done that too, even funnier when those are legit NPC items. Usually, things in stacks of 20 sell the best, since most things are used in multiples of 4 or 5.

But I guess some people just straight up don't care and actually valued convenience than the actual cost. It's a good thing, they help people get rid of stuff that they don't need!

I love capitalizing on that 10,000% laziness/ignorance fee on items sold by NPCs.