Glamour prism

[Lithera]

If the price bottoms out and people stop putting prisms up then demand increases in relation to supply and the price should increase (You start getting the WTB shouts). I really don't understand why the economy doesn't work properly in this game. What idiot crafters would sell at or less than a break even price? Just Market Board trolls? There can't be that many of them. Legit crafters standing ground and positing at reasonable prices should be able to outpace the handful of trolls since the trolls would burn out of gil by selling at a loss.

[mbncd]

If the price bottoms out and people stop putting prisms up then demand increases in relation to supply and the price should increase (You start getting the WTB shouts). I really don't understand why the economy doesn't work properly in this game. What idiot crafters would sell at or less than a break even price? Just Market Board trolls? There can't be that many of them. Legit crafters standing ground and positing at reasonable prices should be able to outpace the handful of trolls since the trolls would burn out of gil by selling at a loss.

I don't understand it either but people (LOTS of people, a really scary number, not just a handful) are happy to even sell things under NPC trade in value. When I've been bored I've made a couple thousand gil just buying stuff on the market board and reselling it to the NPC right beside me. Considering how little NPC's give, that's really sad.

The undercutting by 10s of thousands of gil on items worth less than 100k at the time already really annoys me though. That's when HQ double star item markets were carefully made at a reasonable price (materials plus a little for time and a little for difficulty) and then got price bombed into obliteration. There was no call for that. I'm not saying 99% mark up profit is the right but material cost plus 5% for those high level HQ recipes shouldn't really have been that much to ask. Selling the end results for half of the cost of materials was nuts.