Broken Market Board by Rich Players.

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Another example of extreme stupidity, sales history shows between 65k and 80k. I have sold many at 70k myself... then just ONE idiot ruins it for everyone.

This is a problem on Cerberus, yes, I can confirm and know who you might be referring to. Each time a certain item nears a price I can afford it at, they go and buy all of it - and keep the market even with their price, I know all of their retainer names by now.

But at the end of the day, it's not violating any of the terms, so there's nothing we can do. (Just want to let that person know I seriously dislike them.)

Is it stupid? What is the actual cost to make those Stalls? And how many sell per day or per week - low demand for a product can drive prices down drastically.

And I occasionally put items up way below market just to dump them - if something has been sitting there on the retainer for two weeks and not moved, it's time to make space.

that vegetable stall is wayyyyy overcharged...considering the cost it sould have been 10k, 20k at best
it is in fact 16k in my server (30k on the first day

Vegetable stall on Coeurl 73K atm, but only about 5 sales a week. A situation ripe for undercutting.

There are so many times ive went to sell items, checked the price and noticed the item posted for Lower than its actual Value. So i'll scoop them up and NPC them. But when that happens with an item that normally sells way higher, its annoying.
Lets say an item has a value is 198g. It normally sells for 10k. There are 5 up, listed at 10k, 10k, 10k 9.8k and 600g.

Situations like this drive me crazy, because there is no need to price it so low. If you posted it at 9k it would still sell before anything else, and there is much less of a profit then NPCing it.

But lets be honest, the whole Purpose of the AH is to make money. Yes some people will be more "greedy" than others, and most things are subjective price wise, an item that may only cost 20k to make, can sell for 100k, and that's Not unreasonable. If there is no other way to get said item, and you haven't leveled the craft yourself, then that's the price you pay.
Everyone CAN level crafting/gathering. Its a choice if you don't.

What just drive me crazy is an item will sell for 25k consistently, i'll place 1 item for sale at 24995, i come back 2 hours later and there was 12 of them posted at 600g. There is just no need for such undercutting. And the only reason it is so prevelant, is because everyone can see the prices then need to beat to sell first.

At least in XI the sell price wasn't listed, so even if someone sold something so low, the person would likely bid 24k.

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Originally Posted by Windsun33

One thing I would like to see is the ability to set up BUYS, and not just sells.

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This could work. I bet you'd have to set up buys through your retainer and to avoid congestion could only set up a few buys per retainer, like 10-20. This way you'd get more reliable profit from selling your stuff and it'd be easier to see which items sell.

One major Warframe trading site uses buyer and seller offers both and it seems to work very well even though it's not affiliated with the main game company.

Making this move would likely be profitable for SE since people would want more retainers to be able to set up more buys and sells. I know I'd enjoy it.

It's not an issue. There are countless things you can be selling, and because retainers have limited MB slots and addons aren't allowed, there's a practical limit to how much any one person can sell. If you don't find you can make a profit with one item, move on and try a different item. I have well over 100 mil and I definitely eat markets at times, but I still have to deal with competition and replacement cost like anyone else. I started out with nothing like everyone else.

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Originally Posted by Windsun33

That sounds like a REALLY bad idea. Another game I played long ago had some features like that, and what happened is that prices went up, some by several hundred percent. The market in this game is not active enough for anyone to crash the market. If you don't like their prices, buy it and resell it.

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Indeed. It would be so easy to buy up all the reasonably priced goods and then repost at 2000% of that price and then no one would be able to ever being it back down. You would end all marketboard auctions for that item.

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Originally Posted by ElianaGoldstein

Another example of extreme stupidity, sales history shows between 65k and 80k. I have sold many at 70k myself... then just ONE idiot ruins it for everyone.

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For the seller, but for buyers with less gil this system is ballin'