Selling Items bought from an NPC

I've noticed people selling npc-purchased items for many times their worth on the market. For example. selling undyed cotton for 300 gold when it can be bought for 52 from the npc. Is this behavior considered an exploit?

no its called idiot impulsive buyers who buy off the market board before checking the vendors.http://eorzeareborn.com/crafting-tie...price-economy/ this is a good list itll get you up to idk about 15 crafting after that its all gathered pretty much.

What Silvyr said, this isn't an exploit. At least in the sense of the game, however it does exploit people who are too lazy/dumb to realize this.
I did this with undyed cloth and cinnamon. More people ended up catching on though, and now their prices have dropped to or below the npc price now. So nothing to worry about.

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Originally Posted by Jesse82

I've noticed people selling npc-purchased items for many times their worth on the market. For example. selling undyed cotton for 300 gold when it can be bought for 52 from the npc. Is this behavior considered an exploit?

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I have to ask because it's making me crazy... is it just out of habit that so many people can't stop referring to the ingame currency as gold? Or is there some crazy hope that SE will rename the currency to accommodate people that insist on calling it gold? And before the anyone picks up the torches and pitch forks and the "rabble rabble!" starts, it's an honest question not an attempt to insult. It's just one of those things that everyone experiences from time to time where you see or hear something that someone does and even though it's completely inconsequential, the question rolls around in your head and drives you nuts until it's answered.

Ok, thanks for the replies. I'll just stick to selling non-npc items for gold. I'm going to need a lot of gold to level up all those crafting professions in the hope of making even more gold. Good ol' goldy gold.

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Originally Posted by Jesse82

I've noticed people selling npc-purchased items for many times their worth on the market. For example. selling undyed cotton for 300 gold when it can be bought for 52 from the npc. Is this behavior considered an exploit?

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Originally Posted by Jesse82

Ok, thanks for the replies. I'll just stick to selling non-npc items for gold. I'm going to need a lot of gold to level up all those crafting professions in the hope of making even more gold. Good ol' goldy gold.

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Undyed cotton is worth 300 gold?
And since the Allagan Gold Peice is the only gold currency in the game...
And it npc's for 2500 gil... that means an undyed cotton is worth 750,000 gil!
I need to sell some cotton....

Yea, I needed Rat Tail for my fishing quest and asked online where I could find them. Everyone said the market board so when I check, they are all stacks of 99 and listed for 3,500g. So I do a little research on the web and find the npc that sells them. They cost 27g each. Always check before you buy on the market ward.

Just use the libra eorzea app

I am not a fan of this, reselling for 10% extra is fine, adding 400% is not.

I would suggest to SE that they make all NPC bought ingredients/materials to be bound to the player so a players can't resell them on the AH, gathered items of the same item should not have this restriction however.

Buyers depends the price not the sellers.
In ffxi it wasn't different, you had a lot of ingredients that you could buy at different zones depending who was controlling the area. If a person don't want to take the time to look if npc's sell the ingredient or item they need that it is their choice to buy it from the market.
Nobody is forcing you to buy things from the market, you can always do the research yourself and see if some guild vendor sells it too for less.

This is why I started checking all of the NPCs I pass to see if they sell mats or ingredients. I got burned quite a few times because I was too impatient to check all of the vendors in the cities. Needless to say, when I did get around to checking every NPC, I was rather surprised to see what some of them sell. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you see it), since the game has been out for almost a month, a lot of the items they sell are much cheaper on the Marketboard now.

In my perfect market world you wouldn't be able to buy items up on the marketplace and immediately relist them back on the marketplace for outrageous prices either - you'd get a message from the NPC saying 'Hey I just sold you these what are you trying to pull!' (Market transaction denied)

Pricing something 2 to 3 times higher then it can be bought from a vendor from is one thing, 10 to 20 times higher is gouging - there's a reason price gouging laws exist in the real world. :rolleyes:

Gold farmers and obscenely rich 1.0 players on Legacy servers have be fixing market prices of shards pricing them far over what new players starting on those servers can afford.

Regardless of being an exploit it borders on unethical - you're bad people and you should feel bad. :p

I think it's fine to sell vendor-bought goods on the market board. I don't do it, but it's a good way to make money by charging people for convenience. I usually buy from vendors if it's available, but I know at least one item that sells only in Drybone, and I didn't want to bother going to get it, so I paid the price on the market. I also think it's fine to charge as much as they want. If someone will buy it, good for them.

The problem isn't that. Suppose you are in Limsa and you need Cotton, if you was in Uldah, you could buy it by 10gil in Weaver Guild, but you can't. You have to pay teleport or ship to Uldah in order to do it. If someone purchase it by 10 and put it on sale for 15, it's fine, they save you time and travel.

The problem is that craft guild shouldn't sell more than 4 or 5 very basic materials. It would be a way to improve gathering and farming, or another craft classes.

I used to make money off brass ingots this way early on in the first week of the game. I honestly had no idea you could buy them from the carpenter's guild, and I'm sure many new players who started out in ul'dah and limsa lominsa did not know as well.

It's not an exploit. It's something that is perfectly fine and legitimate. Please remember to factor in the teleport cost.

I think the current system is perfect. Let the free market work. If you're to lazy to shop around that's your own fault. If the price is to high, don't buy. Buyers from merchants don't affect merchant supply so it does not damage the economy at all.

Sometimes you only need 1-2 of an item. Rather than paying 600 gil to teleport to that merchant, I'd rather just buy it off the Market boards. You're all not as smart as you think. kthx bye

I've been buying Hard Leather at 30 (I think) and reselling them at the market for 300 (I think) on the first week...business was good.