Get rid of the prices in market search

[Reika]

I tend to agree with the original poster but I may have a different reason, people who find items at high level and have no idea what they are worth are selling level 50 gear for less than the price of level 10 gear, on my server a cavalier chainmail is going for 5000 gil thats one quest at level 5. Come on?

Its the players choice to sell something for dirt cheap, just to get rid of of for somewhat more than vendoring it. Even tho, I vendored that cavalier's chainmail from that quest >.> and every other quest item. People tend to want them dyed.

[Rentahamster]

The market should be driven by a Marxist central command style economy and comrade Rentalhamster should be placed in charge of it.

Absolutely. The accursed bourgeois shall finally get their comeuppance. Those who do not comply shall be sent to the Chocobo guano mines.

[Ryoshi]

I tend to agree with the original poster but I may have a different reason, people who find items at high level and have no idea what they are worth are selling level 50 gear for less than the price of level 10 gear, on my server a cavalier chainmail is going for 5000 gil thats one quest at level 5. Come on?

....so wait, let me see if I have this straight here - your stance is that people occasionally clearly don't know what things are worth when they're setting prices, so your solution to this is to remove the only way to check what things are currently worth?

...Did I trip and land in Bizarro-land or something? The OP is a terrible idea for a lot of reasons and your reason for supporting it is literally one of those reasons?

[AngryNixon]

Absolutely. The accursed bourgeois shall finally get their comeuppance. Those who do not comply shall be sent to the Chocobo guano mines.

lol capital idea.

[Rentahamster]

lol capital idea.

I see what you did there, you profiteering, proletariat-oppressing slug!

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[Wynn]

As a crafter, I completely disagree with OP.

Undercutting is part of a healthy economy as I'm sure many of you already know. Also, being able to know what the vendor is selling the item for before you buy it is only fair.

If people are selling an item for less than you, find ways to cut your costs to sell your products for the lowest price. If you cannot, find another item to sell.

If you are simply complaining about the fact that you have to take time to undercut those who undercut you, I've zero sympathy for you.

Generally, I find the only people complaining about undercutting are the ones trying to rape the population by price gouging. A normal crafter will simply undercut in return, if it is financially feasible to do so.

It always amazes me to see crafters in the wards trying to take advantage of newbies. 75k for a level 9 dagger, 120k for a level 15 staff. If they think everyone else has forgotten about the item, they rack up the price trying to squeeze the noobs for gils.

Just a heads up for anyone who does this on my server, don't. I make it a game to undercut you until the item is back down to selling at a reasonable price. Yes, that's right. I'm an evil undercutter and I do it on purpose. Deal with it.

P.S. Thank you for making me wealthy

[Akuun]

Undercutting is starting to become a big problem, as if the economy isn't bad enough already.

Is the demand greater than the supply? If so, then yes.

You have people who put their *** up at the lowest price on the list and then sit there camping the wards all day undercutting anyone who puts their stuff back up at a lower price than them. They've got to have their *** sell first no matter what.

That's how they choose to spend their play time, you have the same option.

This drives prices right down. I have a policy of undercutting the undercutter, whereby anyone who undercuts me is undercut back until a point where I'm better off buying their *** and putting my price back up to a reasonable level and profiting off their crap too. But I don't have time to sit camping the wards all day to sell my *** during the ten minutes that they aren't spamming the search to under cut people.

Wait, what?!
So you are undercutting everyone else, then you get upset when someone undercuts you.
Ha ha, justice has been served.

Whoever decided showing prices in the item search was a good idea is a fool if they didn't see this coming. XI's economy works fine without this. The system should show a price history not a price list. Something needs changing.

This is because no one wants to spend 3 hours looking for a good price on an item.
Considering you have people in the proper ward selling at 3-10x the average it's pretty silly not to.
Players pretty much demanded that SE reduce the amount of time that had to be spent searching the wards.
I'm sure you have seen some benefit from this as you are undercutting.

[Xenor]

I'm going to lock this thread because people are just rehashing old arguments after not reading the thread and I can't be bothered to come in here and copy and paste responses to lazy people every week.