Not being able to buy single items from a stack on the marketward.

[bwalker36]

I plan to.
If you don't want them, find someone who selling less per stack.
Seriously though. It's how the market works. If we don't want to sell them separate, then we aren't going to. It means we don't want to.
Like I said, I usually sell them in small enough stacks that they are smaller than the average. But I digress, as people will never be happy w/ a free market economy.

It would be nice to be able to list the 50 and then fill in a box and say allow people to by stacks of 5. However at the same time I consider that only to be a qol issue and have no problems if they do not do it. I'm like you I list in small stacks for slightly more than current bulk listings. Has worked well so far.

[Viik]

The way I look at it, you get bulk discounts if you buy a lot. This gives more options for sellers to cater for different buyers and makes undercutting less of a problem.

[Felix7007]

I plan to.
If you don't want them, find someone who selling less per stack.
Seriously though. It's how the market works. If we don't want to sell them separate, then we aren't going to. It means we don't want to.
Like I said, I usually sell them in small enough stacks that they are smaller than the average. But I digress, as people will never be happy w/ a free market economy.

Ok do some math. Are you ready for this? if you sold 12 eggs, 20 cookies and 100 crystals one at a time, you would need 132 retainer slots. YOU ONLY HAVE 40 TO SELL WITH. So no, in fact you can't go ahead and sell them individually if you wanted to.

[Bahamuts_Slayer]

Ok do some math. Are you ready for this? if you sold 12 eggs, 20 cookies and 100 crystals one at a time, you would need 132 retainer slots. YOU ONLY HAVE 40 TO SELL WITH. So no, in fact you can't go ahead and sell them individually if you wanted to.

Seriously? Do you not understand that she doesn't WANT to sell individually?

[AlmaMalma]

Retainers have 20 spots. Do you really expect a seller to fill those up with 1 item sales?

[Bizzybeast]

yes, we have the option, but its implementation is so retarded its not even funny, and the price editing ...
for example if you have 20 orders and want to change price of the bottom 5, you have to scroll down adjust price, it will scroll up so you have to again scroll down adjust price etc etc etc ..
the ability to check "sell as stack/stack only" just makes the process of setting up(and adjusting price of) multiple orders easy in one click and also it clears the listing of such orders on the market as you will see 1 order instead of 20 from one guy
why would you not want it ?

Lets go slow, by scroll down I assume you mean glancing your finger against the scroll wheel for a half of a second? Eventhough it going back to top seems like a bug, it also makes sense as a mechanic to make people 'give up' on being ruthless price cutters.

For me I do not have the problem with the moment it takes, but the real reason I dont want it, is because its overly complicated. You make it seem so whimsically fixing, yet it would have devastating effects on the market.

even stack sellers could benefit from it, if there would be one more checkbox(or maybe radio button) to set stack size, you could set up 20 orders of 5 in one click ....the limit of 20 orders per retainer doesn't even have to change i think, by easing the process of setting up/managing orders would promote selling in smaller stacks which is what ppl in this thread wants
atm only the "M"s who like the clicking/scrolling hell are doing that :P

I really do not even remember what we were discussing, last I was in this thread it was "I want to buy ONE from a stack". This is what I assure you is harmful and I refuse to allow it into the game.

Can you please let me know how to sell my 31 Electrum ores, my 12 Raptor hides, and my 14 Cobalt ingots as individual pieces?

This I COULD do in 1.0 using 3 of my 16 (see with less spots, I am able to sell more than what I am able to in 2.0) avail slots on my retainer

Wulfies, I have 40 retainer slots. This is near accurate what are currently in them-

Note that all gear will be HQ unless noted, I rarely sell RQs accept for militia SB farming.

Goblin Long Sword x 11 (Varying prices based of the varying melds I did, 8,888-14,999)

Goblin Scim x 7 (5,555-9,999) [Goblin stuff, believe it or not, has made me a solid 40-50% of my money. They sell almost completely out over night, yet DO NOT do so if I set greedy prices considering im the only one doing them daily. Be fair and become profitable]

Obelisk (777,777)

Heavy Darksteel Chest (799,999)

Heavy Darksteel legs (799,999)

Random Militia Off Hand Tools (22,222)

RQ Darksteel Nugget varying stacks:

1 (2,999 per)
5 (2,222 per)
10 (1,999 per)
15 (1,777 per)
20 (1,555 per)
99 (1,234 per)

I usually use DST nugs to fill in the rest of my slots when I go to bed. So each day for at least the passed 3 weeks, I log on to an average of 350k, and 10-25 empty retainer slots, of which I either craft more stuff, or sell varying stacks of stuff with. How are you not doing this? Are all 40 of your slots full for days on end?? You're doing it wrong then and I promise you the system isnt broken because you are constantly full on retainer space. The market is designed to let people specialize in specific markets, 40 slots is MORE then enough to do that properly.

Even so, ill offer a tip I used early on crafting, found a friend who doesnt use ANY of his 40 slots (I know him IRL, that helps the trust). I mailed him the items and gave a price to list and each day the amount to lower it by until it reaches its value. Then just sell it to the vendor. Keep 20%.

He made 250k roughly in the 3-4 days we did this. I stopped because I decided LOWER end ITEMS and LOTS of them, were no longer worth my time or skill level.

I want more retainers for those times I bump out 50+ items, but I dont really think we should get them. It would hurt more then help.

For the sake of argument, lets say you wanted this Wrapped Hawksbeak Hammer (link to the XIVDB and you can see what it takes to make this.)
Now, in order to make this I will need a 40+ botanist, 40+ miner, 45+ Blacksmith, 35+ Leatherworker, 41+ Alchemist, ?? Fisher (sorry have not leveled fisherman yet,) +some Dow/DoM high enough to kill the piggies. This isn't even the 1 star militia item that need min control/craftmanship to even attempt.

Now, I've done this, thankfully I had alot of the raw mats so it only took me about 10 mins of trying to HQ to the sub-mats and building the final product (75% chance to HQ and it didnt hq ) If I had to farm, this would have taken me about an hour or 2, most of that time woudl be spentin running around and not really "seeing more of the game," I am out trying to avoid monsters/getting killed.

That is why it is so important we do not ruin all those player's jobs in this game. If each one of those people took 5 minutes to aquire the items needed, then it would be healthy if they all got about 500gil for their time.

Buying ONE item off of a stack will forever destroy most of those "busy bees" who just made that item possible. Only the ONE guy, who uses his keyboard to macro it, will sell it and TONS of it at 199 per. Now not a single person will want to go out and farm ever, it just wont be worth the time. New players will never sell their random goods, get a feel for the market/economy, until they start farming Tomes for crafters.

I implore you to think about this and realize how important it is this silly mechanic NEVER gets put in. If you cant think logically, graciously bow out to those who can.

Ok do some math. Are you ready for this? if you sold 12 eggs, 20 cookies and 100 crystals one at a time, you would need 132 retainer slots. YOU ONLY HAVE 40 TO SELL WITH. So no, in fact you can't go ahead and sell them individually if you wanted to.

He would only need 3 slots, cause he would just sell them as stacks. The guy above did the same thing... Some weird argument of "How do I sell everything individually!?!?".

YOU DO NOT, that is how. Thats not how the game was designed. Or if you do, which is a very valid approach and MANY MANY smart market players do so, you can do 40 at a time.

Manage your time, manage your retainers, manage your costs, and swim in your profits.

The idea posed in this thread has been thoroughly declined by the forum player base, even if it wasnt just a post and something that would get dev attention (it isnt), it still will NEVER see the light of day.

"BECAUSE I WANT IT", isnt good enough to even discuss why it should be elevated beyond a tedious conversation.

[Sinbios]

Lets go slow, by scroll down I assume you mean glancing your finger against the scroll wheel for a half of a second? Eventhough it going back to top seems like a bug, it also makes sense as a mechanic to make people 'give up' on being ruthless price cutters.

For me I do not have the problem with the moment it takes, but the real reason I dont want it, is because its overly complicated. You make it seem so whimsically fixing, yet it would have devastating effects on the market.

We're all being trolled right now, aren't we? Interface bugs are actually "features" to discourage undercutting, and fixing it would be too complicated?

Buying ONE item off of a stack will forever destroy most of those "busy bees" who just made that item possible. Only the ONE guy, who uses his keyboard to macro it, will sell it and TONS of it at 199 per. Now not a single person will want to go out and farm ever, it just wont be worth the time. New players will never sell their random goods, get a feel for the market/economy, until they start farming Tomes for crafters.

You still haven't answered my question: why is this bad? If that one guy can supply the demand of the entire playerbase for that item at 199 each, then why should anyone else be able to sell it at more than that? You're right, no one will want to farm that particular thing, because it's not worth farming. Why should the market be limited so that the item is made to be worth farming even though in your scenario there's apparently overwhelming supply and not enough demand? If someone else is able to sell it at 500 each, where does the extra 300 come from? From inefficiencies in the market, that's where. This is not how a health market/economy works.

[Wulfies]

Wulfies, I have 40 retainer slots. This is near accurate what are currently in them-

Note that all gear will be HQ unless noted, I rarely sell RQs accept for militia SB farming.

Goblin Long Sword x 11 (Varying prices based of the varying melds I did, 8,888-14,999)

Goblin Scim x 7 (5,555-9,999) [Goblin stuff, believe it or not, has made me a solid 40-50% of my money. They sell almost completely out over night, yet DO NOT do so if I set greedy prices considering im the only one doing them daily. Be fair and become profitable]

Obelisk (777,777)

Heavy Darksteel Chest (799,999)

Heavy Darksteel legs (799,999)

Random Militia Off Hand Tools (22,222)

RQ Darksteel Nugget varying stacks:

1 (2,999 per)
5 (2,222 per)
10 (1,999 per)
15 (1,777 per)
20 (1,555 per)
99 (1,234 per)

I usually use DST nugs to fill in the rest of my slots when I go to bed. So each day for at least the passed 3 weeks, I log on to an average of 350k, and 10-25 empty retainer slots, of which I either craft more stuff, or sell varying stacks of stuff with. How are you not doing this? Are all 40 of your slots full for days on end?? You're doing it wrong then and I promise you the system isnt broken because you are constantly full on retainer space. The market is designed to let people specialize in specific markets, 40 slots is MORE then enough to do that properly.

Your assumption here is that you are only selling the high-end mats/gear or HQ mats/gear. Yes, you CAN just sell HQ mats, but for some that is just not monetarily efficient for the buy side. If your sell strategy works for you, congratulations. So what happens to the person in their 30s trying to sell their stuff (Raptor Hides and Iron Ores and the likes)?

Please read my post regarding Buy-Side AH. That would help alleviate this problem, I hope .

Buying ONE item off of a stack will forever destroy most of those "busy bees" who just made that item possible. Only the ONE guy, who uses his keyboard to macro it, will sell it and TONS of it at 199 per. Now not a single person will want to go out and farm ever, it just wont be worth the time. New players will never sell their random goods, get a feel for the market/economy, until they start farming Tomes for crafters.

ummm...I tend to disagree with the above statement. We all know the adage "Time is money" correct? So your person that is selling a ton of "X" item at "Y" price is basically saying, in market terms, that his time farming the "X" item is worth "Y" price. So don't sell/farm if you think the price is to low, it forces market equilibrium till someone decides to sell "X" at a lower price than "Y."

Again, I go back to my original argument. The ability to buy from stacks OR sell as a stack worked in 1.0. Why would they want to change this?

[JWag12787]

The market works as this:
I want to sell you 12 eggs at a certain price.
You want 6 eggs.
You either buy the 12 eggs, or look elsewhere for 6 eggs.
If I wanted to sell just 6 eggs, I'd have listed it at a 6 eggs price.

I don't see why anything needs to change, simply because people don't want to look and/or wait just to save money buying too many more than they want [which they can ultimately resell when they are finished].

[Sinbios]

The market works as this:
I want to sell you 12 eggs at a certain price.
You want 6 eggs.
You either buy the 12 eggs, or look elsewhere for 6 eggs.
If I wanted to sell just 6 eggs, I'd have listed it at a 6 eggs price.

I don't see why anything needs to change, simply because people don't want to look and/or wait just to save money buying too many more than they want [which they can ultimately resell when they are finished].

This needs to change because you need to sell 40000 eggs, and you are only allowed to sell them in 40 wholesale lots. How do you divvy up the eggs for sale? Do you only put up 40 cartons of 12 at a time so you can sell them over a year? Or do you put up 40 lots of 1000 so that no sane person would want to buy a whole lot?