How often do you update your Market Board listings?

How often do you update your Market Board listings? And by that, I mean how often do you recall your retainer for purposes of either:

• adjusting the price of your listings; or
• placing a new product on the market.

Note that we're not counting ventures, depositing/withdrawing items or Gil.

(Just realised this discussion board does not have survey option! Shame, would be nice to see some stats on this matter. If moderators know how to turn it into a survey, please do.)

1. Once per week;
2. Twice per week;
3. Thrice per week;
4. Daily;
5. Twice per day;
6. More than twice each day;

I started crafting about 1-2 weeks ago, and putting items on MB. Now I've become totally hooked on it! The excitement you feel when when your product sells is so addictive, don't you think?

7. Every time I add something to be sold through my retainer I adjust prices as long as I'm in there.

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Originally Posted by FiberBundle

How often do you update your Market Board listings? And by that, I mean how often do you recall your retainer for purposes of either:

• adjusting the price of your listings; or
• placing a new product on the market.

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I'll usually check listings to see what's been sold and restock anything I sell on a regular basis at the same time I check the retainer for ventures. How often that is will depend on how much I'm playing that character that day (I have multiple alts). It will be at least once a day.

Checking to do price adjustments will vary depending on past experience selling the item. If it's something that sold daily in the past but hasn't for 2 or 3 days, I'll check to see what's happening with listings much faster. Items that I got as random drops or quick venture loot but don't normally sell I'll usually check once a week to see if it's worth continuing to list. I'll check high value but infrequently sold items at the same time.

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Originally Posted by FiberBundle

I started crafting about 1-2 weeks ago, and putting items on MB. Now I've become totally hooked on it! The excitement you feel when when your product sells is so addictive, don't you think?

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Guess I've been crafting and selling too long for it to feel that exciting to me. It doesn't help that I don't have anything I really want to buy with the gil earned (though there's always the chance SE might add something in the future).

It was far more interesting when I had a goal for the gil I was earning (buying my house, as an example).

If I'm selling something worth 1 mil or more, I'll literally camp at the summoning bell, smoke and chill lol.

really depends.

if I feel like crafting to sell something, I will stand on the crafting board since I prefer people buy my things than the bot created things.

if I am putting up extra mats, I just list and forget

Whenever my retainers come back from ventures, and whenever i log on. my retainers go on ventures once an hour when im online, and it takes like 5 min to update/check on prices. a few hrs before im headed to bed i send them on the 18hr venture and let them be (unless ive got something to sell), after the 18hrs is up, (which is normally when im back on since im on every day-ish unless i need to let the sub lapse for a day or two) i check em again, pat em on the head, and go on my merry way.

Once a day. Often less if I'm lazy (I have more than enough gil at this stage) but when I'm actively selling items once a day is average for me.

Things generally sell fine for me. Playing undercut wars is tiring and markets are volatile so it doesn't always make a difference. Sometimes you get undercut twice, but an hour later 3 sales happen and yours sells anyway.

Not to often generally set and forget. I may check my listing when I boot my retainers out on a venture but I'm never in a rush for gils so I don't need to constantly be dropping dropping prices desperate for a quick sale.

Depending what I'm selling I usually price in the middle somewhere and my stuff still sells if you se the right quantities. Like oh hey top tier crafts need 3 of x item. So I'll list the ones I have for sale in stacks of 3. Even if they're 500-1000 gil higher than the cheapest listings I often find they sell first. Because people don't like buying excess

More than twice each day.

I have ten retainers but I'm trying to make a ton of gil before the expac. It's slow-going but I find updating pricing multiple times a day if the only way to keep up with 1) what's selling and 2) what's dropping price making it not worth crafting.

Once a day, maybe more if I'm in the mood. Why bother, with the market in the state it is now.

Since I've been selling Exarchic gear and I've had to compete with bots, probably every 30 minutes. Gives me time for a roulette or to talk to some people. I can move about 80 to 100 items in a day that way. It's very tedious work with 8 retainers.

But I haven't found anything to be nearly as profitable. I'll probably stop in a week or two when I have enough for 2 large houses.

Once a day.

I specifically avoid selling anything that's overstocked and liable to have steep competition.

I scan so infrequently. Depends on what I'm doing in game. If I'm crafting items to sell, I may check every time I finish a batch of stuff to put up for sale. If I'm playing the game otherwise, I may not check until I'm ready to log off for the day, or right when I log in in the morning.

Every hour or so.

Depends on how motivated I am. Some weeks I update every few days or so. Sometimes I get really motivated and would do so every 15 minutes.

I believe the listings remain active for 1 week if you don't have your retainers going on ventures. After 1 week of no activity you must interact with the retainers to have your items relisted.

If I'm selling stuff with a high margin I will check them more often. Like maybe every hour or so.

If it's just low margin stuff I check on them maybe once or twice a day.

I rely on the sales history of other people to set my prices (usually i set the highest price of the item last sold on the MB), i'm pretty patient (though it helps i have max retainers so space to sell isn't much of an issue)

Once a day. Every time I log in I check on the retainers. And may adjust price if there is something not sold from the day before.
Altough I do not sell much, nor overcharge. So usually everything gets sold and there is no need to ajust.

I have no interest on the Gazillonare title. And already have a house. So I see no need to spend an inordinate ammount of time getting richer.

I make most of my gil from selling Diadem mats. So, like once every two weeks. Diadem mats are so volatile in price, it's really not worth the hassle to try and meet current market. I've sold stacks of ragstone for 1.2k each (118,800 total) one week, and then the next they'll be like 150g each. I'll just leave the higher priced mats up because it's likely that the price will climb back up again.

Pretty sure I would go mental from going through and checking/change prices once per day.

It kinda depends. If I'm just chilling and selling shit I happen to get (like fishing desynth glams, ex trial drops, shit my retainers bring me, etc), then probably once every few hours, mostly only if I'm listing another item. When I'm actively trying to grind gil, probably like twice an hour until I go to sleep. I hate seeing my gil go down but I spend a 1-3 mil a day so I need items to sell or I feel insecure lmao

Since I play on a JP server, I usually check twice a day, once when I wake up and once when I log in for the evening. This lets me hit the JP prime-time (my morning) and NA's prime-time (my evening). I don't adjust prices on everything all the time. If I do make adjustments, it's usually on things I've got high quantities of left over from crafting/gathering binges and want to get rid of. High value items may get adjusted down a little during the week to see if they sell. If not, I'll leave them alone to be bought at a later date.

This works for me since I don't craft with the intention of selling; I sell the extra stuff I get from crafting. If/when I get to the point of crafting with the intention of making as much money as I can, then I'll probably start adjusting prices more frequently. Until then, the MB is a source of almost passive income.