hey idiots, you should work the cost of the shard into your price!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Reika

Right now, a NQ finger sandwich is selling at minimum for 2300 on my server, but the 2 clusters that it takes to make it are 1000 each, and then there is the rest of the materials. The finished product ends up worth less than the parts. Better off just selling the materials rather than the food.

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That's true. It's more profitable to see which foods are selling for the highest amount, otherwise you are losing money on the crystals, and in some rare cases, the materials. I've found selling apkallu omelettes or foods that require cooking sherry the most profitable. IT could also be that HQ food is the most important one to be sold that is high-end, because that is what the players are looking for. They are also willing to pay more for it as well.

It's come to the point for me that selling NQ gear and food is pointless. Selling HQ is profitable, and using the NQ gear to turn into materia is a better use of it. I'm guessing this was SE's intention eventually.

Edit: If I could make a change, it would be that food yields at least 3 servings when crafted. I think that would warrant the use of the cluster better.

supply and demand, people burning through the levels will want to dump their stuff into the market as fast as possible to make room, just research before you start making something for profit

Even selling high lvl gathering materials is bad on my server. You take the time to get to 50 and go to a rare node that spawns once an hour and people sell the stuff from that for 30-50 gil? People are really dumb

Not interested in profit on grindy items.

If I spiritbond botanist with 500 noble grapes and turn that into 500 dark vinegar while leveling culinarian with not enough matching ingredients to use it on, it's not going to stay in my storage. If it's not selling in small quantities at the "feasible" price, then it's taking up space and retainer market opportunity.

So it goes into the IDGAF pile and gets market boarded for 1-X gil. 500 of these item exist now, so why NPC it, for 2 gil more? Whoopie. Someone else can benefit? Great! Thank you for making use of it. If YOU want to resell it, buy it up, and do it.

And let's be more civil here and scale back on calling folks "idiots" or "dumb", especially when you don't understand their motives. Usually continuing down that path just comes off as assholish.

I use the market wards to clear my inventory. If I have some food I've crafted up that I don't want, I'll chuck it on the MW at the lowest price - I want it gone. I'm levelling all crafts simultaneously and what with crafting log completions, quest rewards and dungeon drops, I usually have 450-500 of my 500 inventory slots used up. I re-list about 20 of my 40 items every day. I undercut because I want them passed to someone who will use them, not because I'm interested in turning a profit.

Shards are a bottomless supply for me. I'm not sure why (perhaps I converted a lot of fish at the end of 1.0 - I can't rightly remember), but I started ARR with 6-8k of each shard. idk why they're selling for so much - essentially just putting an inflated value on time, being as anyone can go out and get them. I don't sell my own supply because at the moment I have zero need for gil (prolly will change come housing, idk).