Post your MB successes and ultimate fails

As above, we see it each day items sold by mistake at the wrong price.
The days of ffxi were funniest due to the tax to place items on AH, plenty of times i used to see millions of gil items sold for 1gil XD
Yesterday just carrying out my usual purchases i picked up 100 fieldcraft I for 900gil each pretty sure they meant to put 9k each XD

I bought an NQ Dodore Belt at 5k back when it was being bought up and turned around to sell it for nearly 100k.

I accidentally sold an Ehcatl Sealant for 2600 gil instead of 260000 once.

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About a week or so ago I bought 4 Thavnairian Onion seeds for 100k.

Heaven's eye IV at 10k, resold it @ 100k.. 4 Savage might II @ 1500 (market price is 25000) and i accidentally melded em to ilvl weapon req for relic :s

My fail was putting 40s ughamoaro berries for 12 gils each..

first 5 minutes of servers being up the night of patch 2.5, I bought up every single battlecraft demi 3 on the mb, ranging from 200k to 500k, then put them all in at 2.5mil apiece. one of them ended up selling for 25k.

still made a tidy profit of about 50 mil overall, but could have been 52 :(

I'd just like to glare daggers at all those people who sell HQ items at lower/same price as NQ, or even worse, at vendor price. Why? Why? WHY?! It's not like people can find HQ items at vendor! Give those shiny items some value!

Someone accidentally listed a Savage Might IV at vendor price. Easiest 800k I ever made.

I bought 50 Cobalt Ingot with @ 103 gil

I always make a quick sweep of the MB for high-priced items that may be missing a zero. I've scored a few Savage Might IV's, Allagan Leathers and pricey minions this way.

Successes - Seeing silly people try to mark up an item that has a history of 15-20K for almost 80K, and then putting up 4-5 for 30K without looking greedy. Thanks, silly people!

The AH in FFXI was a barrel of laughs since you couldn't see the price things were posted for. You'd occasionally get people posting super rare stuff and then buying them back to themselves to show off that they had it. I always tried to snipe one of those but never succeeded- though a guy in a LS I was in managed to score an Algol for 1 gil, he was nice and gave it back to the dude, though.

The dumbest thing I ever did on the MB was probably buying a full set of best man's gear, then bragging about it to my GF who promptly pointed out that it was for sale in Ul'Dah at a fraction of the price I paid. Good times!

hahaha made so made so much day of patch with bestman gear no one could undercut me XD

My biggest success was at the launch of ARR's service. I had already GSM to level 50 from v1, and I clumsily managed to make one of the first few Rose Gold Earrings on Masamune, HQ at 6%

I sold it for 3.5 million gil, which was ample enough to finance my entire crafting career.

It was back in ffxi but my friend bought a dagger from someone's bazaar for 1.5 mil and sold it for 15 mil.

Right when retainer ventures came out (2.2?) and they were broken and bringing back things they weren't supposed to bring back, someone put the Manor Harp on the MB for 25k. I bought it and re-sold it for 1.5mil.

Have found various mistakes by people obviously putting the wrong price on things, but none as profitable as this one.

I haven't needed to try and make money since that patch anyway. I flooded Goblin server with Glazenuts. Probably sold about 60-70 of them for 500k each. :D

Someone gone and derped, and I was able to get the Opo-Opo for 10k. At the time everything was sold out, and they didn't know to look at this history and just threw it up.

The other time which was my worst moment. Is that during the storymode you get a choice of 3 of the tier 4 matiera and I had settled on one thinking it was worth more than the rest - finding out that it only goes for 50k while the other two were happily in the 400-600k

I got a Baby Opo-opo when Brayflox was still in Expert Roulette, hung onto it and sold it in mid 2.4 for 4.5m gil while everyone else had it listed for 1m or so.

Bought 10 Savage Might 4s for 100k each while they were selling close to 700k each, thanks to a tip from an FC member. Sold them all off at market price in less than 20 minutes, easiest profit I've ever made including primal weapons.

2.5 patch day Listed the first artisan's apron on the server for 4M, checked after my first DR, and saw that I was undercut by 500k. Well I'll show them! Listed my second one at 325,000, instead of 3,250,000... bought within seconds. 10 more were sold that day for ~3mil... sigh... yep... sure showed them.

Soon after fat cats came out, bought one for 1.37 mill. Was meant for 13.7 mill. Took awhile, but ultimately sold it for 7.5 mill.

Bought the double-melded nin relic weapon for 8k. Turned around and sold it for 100k. Got a floor cushion for 14k when they were selling for 140k!

I picked up a rose gold choker off the board for 15k, and flipped it for 150k.

I felt kinda bad, but you should always double check your listings.

A glazenut for 165gil.

Buying all the rare furnishings on the MB the day before 2.38 worked out pretty well for me as well.

Well... I ain't predatory enough. I've been looking for an Artisan File, and a couple of weeks back I saw one listed at two 'noughts less than the going price.

So I sent a tell to the listing person, askin' them if they had made a mistake. And they were able to fix it, and thanked me profusely for my tell.

Savage Aim IV - 300 gil

I sold a lot of the Emporer's New _____ armor and accessories between 10-50k. Which was pretty sweet considering the vendors sells them all for less 100gil.

How do you know what the price is "supposed" to be? Is there a guide somewhere? There was plenty of times where I sold something where it was the only one available and I never know what to set the price as....

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Originally Posted by Jacosta

How do you know what the price is "supposed" to be? Is there a guide somewhere? There was plenty of times where I sold something where it was the only one available and I never know what to set the price as....

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After you click the "Compare Prices" button in the upper right of the screen where you enter the price and quantity of the item you're selling, it pops up a window of the listings. In the upper right of that window is another button for "History". It's an invaluable tool that tells you how much things typically sell for and how often they sell. If you have the only one of an item, you can always attempt to set your own price, though if you go too high over the normal selling price it won't sell at all and you'll just get undercut all over again. :3

no one was selling trapper's quiche on our server. but based on history HQ was for 9999 gil. So I continued it and it became my market for 2weeks. After that people started to ruin my fun by selling it for 2.5-4k gil each. WTF bro??