How do you deal with constant undercutting?

Selling stuff used to be important to me but seeing im at 600k just by leisurely doing roulette gives really good income for me. But i say undercutting by 1gil is respectable

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Originally Posted by urban

Selling stuff used to be important to me but seeing im at 600k just by leisurely doing roulette gives really good income for me. But i say undercutting by 1gil is respectable

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Did I read this right???

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Originally Posted by urban

i say undercutting by 1gil is respectable

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wtf?

its just annoying and stupid.

I place an item and forget about it usually then maybe check my stock a couple times throughout the week and adjust accordingly. Patch day/week is when I camp the MB and make my money. Any other day is just idle profit.

hmm for undercutting, they just want to be first in line. Least they are using 1 Gil, unlike morons on Odin that cut by 200k and list ala mihgan stuff for 350k cheaper than the costs XD

I will admit I undercut a lot by 1 gil as I need to be first in line. I will, however, wait if people do what I stated above, and let the cheap ones sell. Taxation doesn't really help sadly. It's all about being in first in line!

I undercut them more. But only if they try undercutting me first (I usually post the exact price as the current top listing). But not more than what I can sell it to a Vendor for. Because that's just stupid. :/

Once I saw someone kept undercutting me over and over and over within a few minutes.
I eventually undercutted his item by a very large amount
He undercutted me
I bought his item and put both of them back on at the regular price and sold both of them.

The aforementioned individual is still going strong and has drawn the ire of a rather large part of the crafting community on my server now.

You can beat a human undercutter, but when you're dealing with a bot that's online 24/7 (Barring very rare exceptions) and does virtually nothing but undercut whenever someone tries to sell something at a price lower then them, it requires an unreasonable amount of diligence to get your stuff to sell.

Baiting them into selling low then trying to resell at a higher price is also largely ineffective as they'll almost immediately relist a new item the moment one sells, meaning you can't avoid getting into a price war with them.

I'm feeling like they need to just change the marketboard somehow to make it harder for bots to exploit, whether it be with constant undercutting or flooding the market with underpriced wares.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

I'm feeling like they need to just change the marketboard somehow to make it harder for bots to exploit, whether it be with constant undercutting or flooding the market with underpriced wares.

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A cooldown on how often you can change the price of an item would help a lot, and possibly a limit on how many of a type of item you can sell at one time. There's no reason for any one person to be selling thousands upon thousands of something at once.

Generally play their game with -1 gil or place it on their asking price.

On some item where i don't really care about my profit too much i play with them until the prices are so low and buy them out and relist.