Scrap the marketplace system please

The single biggest quality of life improvement you can make to this game is fixing the marketplace system. It's just terrible. I spend more time adjusting prices (because the second you list something, you're immediately undercut) than I do enjoying the game.

It's a tedious, irritating process that is easily remedied by returning to the excellent system Final Fantasy XI used. I don't know why this hasn't been addressed sooner, I can't be the only person who finds it infuriating?

(Edit. I now realise this is about the 100th thread on the same subject, so apologies for that, but the point is still valid).

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Originally Posted by PrettyShambolic

...by returning to the excellent system Final Fantasy XI...

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I think in FFXI, all your same value item would be sold to NPC... ^^;

The marketplace isn't the issue, your community is. I suggest you either leave the price alone, sell in more lucrative amounts, or find something that has more demand than supply. It's YOUR choice to lower the price, and it doesn't amount to a broken system that you choose to lower it a million times in hopes that it will sell before the person that wants to uncut you lowers their prices.

All they have to do is make the current prices invisible and problem solved.

Seriously?

The issue is that you are constantly "adjusting" your prices, meaning you are just as much part of the problem as anything. Complaining about others doing something you camp the market board to do yourself is really silly. Think.

if youre trying to sell something for its "established" price, and there are 15+ different stacks being sold, you wont get the amount you want.

best example:
millioncorn sells for 150 gil NQ. someone sold 6 of them for 1k each. there werent up for sale.

conversely, if you want to sell an ornate window for the "established" price of 6k, and there are 15 you probably wont get that price. people are sell according to supply.

on another note, if you see these undercuts, and its a fast selling item, yours will be gone soon enough. the fact that you spend so much time adjusting works against, as the item isnt on the market when you have your retainer out. leave it for some time and itll sell. if it doesnt sell fast, you cant expect everyone to sell it at the price you feel is correct. and, if these are undercutting, why dont you buy them and sell them for what you wanto to, its easy profit.

all in all, its an economy, it wont be exactly how you feel it should be, it fluctuates.

People are a product of their environment. Blaming the community is silly. Of course people are going to undercut to sell their item, with how the devs designed the marketplace the fastest and most efficient way to sell things on it is to watch it like a hawk and adjust prices accordingly. Yes, you can just let your items sit there until they sell...but with how this market is, that may not be for days.

I listed 12 command 3 on market for 33333, I check market 30 minutes later a lot of same materia was listed for 25000....I left mine alone... 2 days later all 12 were sold in the same day for 33333....check prices history if u know they are selling at ur initial listed price than leave ur price alone YOU are part of the problem by going back to adjust price.

The best thing to do is search out what is in low supply and make that. I know the pain of undercutting and over supply. I put up 2-3 of an item, then someone comes around and throws 10-20 on the board at a lower price.

And as mentioned, rate of sale vs supply i a huge factor. I get a tonberry minion from a map and see 3-4 on board for 300k. I toss mine up for 300k as well. The next day, none have sold and prices start dropping. I drop mine, they drop theirs etc until finally I sold mine for less than half of the original price.
It's the same concept behind grade 4 materia being 3-4 times more expensive now. it's all about demand.

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Originally Posted by Sonofbaldo

All they have to do is make the current prices invisible and problem solved.

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But doesn't that just create another problem, I mean how could you buy something if you can't see the prices?