I'm having a hard time selling stuff

I've been trying to sell a bunch of stuff on the market board in order to make money to fund my crafting. I've usually been selling crafting mats. When I do try to sell stuff it never sells, and when I check back theirs usually about 10 people who've undercut me. I've noticed that this has happened with almost all the items I've put up for sale. How do I stop this?

Lower the price or find something else to sell.

It depends on the crafting mats you are selling. Some lower level crafting mats are needed like crazy for even level 60 recipes.
Before deciding what to sell, I would recommend looking at the sales history for each item you want to sell (if you aren't doing this already).
If the entire sales history is just in the past 1 or 2 days, then the item is selling very fast. If the sales history goes back weeks or months, I wouldn't bother trying to sell the items.

When the counter refreshes for Red Scrips is a good time to try to sell items because everyone will be crafting to get their weekly quota done.

Also, sell in reasonable quantities, and you'll sell faster than those undercutting you. Singles may fly off the shelf, or people could buy several stacks at a time.

A friend just last week needed 1 Blue Coral for some recipe. There were 5 stacks up on the MB, the smallest was more than 60 items.

Until 3.3 launches the markets are sort of wonky. People are spending less, and are saving gil to potentially pay for a house (new housing district or when a house opens in the old districts). And others are probably taking a break from the game until the patch hits (plus Overwatch just came out). Between those three potential factors I've noticed the markets have become stagnant. People are gathering and selling more items (resulting in the markets crashing), and at the same time. The amount of sales has stayed the same (or has slightly decreased). When 3.3 launches expect the markets to become re-invigorated as people shift their focus and return to the game.

I just met someone who was able to make a huge amount of gil in about a week, I'm talking millions and millions of gil. The person wasn't a 2 star crafter then and no they didn't buy gil. How can someone make all that money that fast? Anybody have any tips for making money in this game?

I know that miner and bot bring in a lot of Gil for me. But the markets have slowed down on my server.

I'm aware of that, they've brought a lot of gil in for me too, but this guy didn't have any gatherers leveled past 15. I've been able to sell my materials just fine, but I'm having trouble selling tools and gear. Those seem to always sit on the market forever.

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Originally Posted by ToasterMan

I just met someone who was able to make a huge amount of gil in about a week, I'm talking millions and millions of gil. The person wasn't a 2 star crafter then and no they didn't buy gil. How can someone make all that money that fast? Anybody have any tips for making money in this game?

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He was probably playing the market. Buy low, sell high.

Diversify, don't gravitate around 1-10 items if you're planning n making a few mil per week. I dabble in over 1,000 different items at any given time. Make a mil a day. Zero crafting or gathering classes. It's all so streamline now I don't even have to try/camp items anymore. I see a good deal, I buy it, and remark it. Esp now that I've been prepping for 3.3 launch. - 8 retainers per character, 5 characters total. 8 lvl 60 ilvl 200-210 hunter retainers. Plus I play the MB, do battle leve's for gear (when I'm bored), or I buy treasure maps off the MB (when I'm bored and people have flooded the market/crashed the prices of maps).

Also, join pony farms that also drop faded orch copies. See about getting a faded copy per party. If you see coil farms, join those for the orch rolls/allagan and high allagan pieces/crafting mats. Another side income. (A bit grindy but it'll make you 500+k per day doing nothing but completing a dungeon repeatedly).

T13, I think drops the High allagan chest/headpiece (one or the other/shrug), on my server, the body high allagan crafting mat sells for 400k, head 200k, and the faded copy of answers sells for 500k. Do the math xD Join a T13 faded copy farm party, (might take you 30 tries to get 6 faded copies for everyone), but you should have 1-2+ high allagan pieces + the faded copy. 1.4mil in 2-4 hours of grinding. shabloom.

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Originally Posted by Zigabar

He was probably playing the market. Buy low, sell high.

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Or was on an alt character and transferred the gil from his/her other character maybe. I have a crafting/gathering character and an older DoW/DoM character, I transfer millions between them from time to time. There are downsides and upsides to having more than one such as for example more storage, more retainers, getting to do the MSQ multiple times instead of stuck with fates, dungeons and leves only. The downsides are having to level a second DoW to unlock those leves and regaining access to all areas and places for the crafting/gathering character too through MSQ even if wanted to be pure DoL/DoH for it plus having to grind MGP on both characters if want the fenrir mount for both or grinding reputation twice for separate characters if want beast tribe mounts for both. Basically some duplication of activities is the downside.

If you have the time / patience, post your stuff and wait a few days. During the week, the prices will fluctuate a bit, so your items will sell. Micromanaging your sales wares is tedious, so let it run its course on the MB.

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Originally Posted by Savanni

If you have the time / patience, post your stuff and wait a few days. During the week, the prices will fluctuate a bit, so your items will sell. Micromanaging your sales wares is tedious, so let it run its course on the MB.

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This. I'm lazy and posting tiny stacks is a pain, so I just dump a couple stacks of whatever I've been farming and let it sit until a rich and lazy crafter decides they need to buy in bulk. Micromanaging and undercutting stuff that isn't selling is really just playing the game of the biggest loser.

I'd rather make 500k+ a sale and be done than sit around and play dumb games with people that don't understand supply and demand.

I make 10-20 mil in sales a day. I craft for probably 5-6 hrs and undercut very often. Some items need to be constantly undercut because more people are trying to sell the item, others can be checked up on twice a day. I have 4 retainers and all of them are filled to max items allowed. I don't sell more than one of each item. You really have to get used to undercutting constantly to make any gains. Selling gear for crafting and gathering classes pre 3 star is a great source of revenue, these items are always in demand. Have fun! \o/

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Originally Posted by Casanters

This. I'm lazy and posting tiny stacks is a pain, so I just dump a couple stacks of whatever I've been farming and let it sit until a rich and lazy crafter decides they need to buy in bulk. Micromanaging and undercutting stuff that isn't selling is really just playing the game of the biggest loser.

I'd rather make 500k+ a sale and be done than sit around and play dumb games with people that don't understand supply and demand.

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Sometimes it can be fun to bait the people who don't understand supply and demanding into perpetually decreasing their longterm profits by putting one item up for sale and watch them fight over having a lower price. Xd Yeah, I usually prefer to ignore them otherwise though.

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Originally Posted by Dre777

You really have to get used to undercutting constantly to make any gains.

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No you don't have to get into the undercutting game. I can make gains just fine while selling on a slower basis, taking the time to enjoy other parts of the game as well, and baiting people like you into undercutting me and driving your potential profits lower than they would be otherwise because you're too intent on trying to be the only person making sales that you don't realize you're only hurting yourself. I have max retainers and alt characters, I have more selling slots than I know what to do with and can push prices down indefinitely.

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Originally Posted by Dre777

I make 10-20 mil in sales a day. I craft for probably 5-6 hrs and undercut very often. Some items need to be constantly undercut because more people are trying to sell the item, others can be checked up on twice a day. I have 4 retainers and all of them are filled to max items allowed. I don't sell more than one of each item. You really have to get used to undercutting constantly to make any gains. Selling gear for crafting and gathering classes pre 3 star is a great source of revenue, these items are always in demand. Have fun! \o/

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wow thought my 30 mil was a lot

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Originally Posted by aesteval

Sometimes it can be fun to bait the people who don't understand supply and demanding into perpetually decreasing their longterm profits by putting one item up for sale and watch them fight over having a lower price. Xd Yeah, I usually prefer to ignore them otherwise though.

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I do that to clear out other sales sometimes. Prices spike back up and there's gil to be made.

I craft hard for a couple weeks after the big patches. Being the first on a server with the new shiny stuff is extraordinarily lucrative. Granted, I was paying 1m apiece for glass fibers with 3.3, but making 5-10m per sale after expenses. As soon as big new gear items have their prices driven down by competition I switch to furniture and glamour for awhile. When that market gets saturated I focus on raiding and doing crafts for my FC until the next patch (or just hanging out with my wifey)