FIX the AUCTION HOUSE!!!!

[Luciano_Bozzelli]

*If you are one of these people, consider the following;

Bob wants a 'Bronze Saw'.

Currently 20 listings are up for saws;


Now. Bob want his 'Bronze Saw', it doen't matter which one to him, he really needs it to get his Carpentry done.

Bob buys yours for 3,000g as it's the cheapest.However

Had you'd set yours to 4998g Bob would still have bought it.

You've now lost out on 1998g in total. And also left yourself open to be undercut further lowering the value of the item faster than people can actually purchase them.




This is how market crashes happen, where something that's worth 5,000g gets undercut by large chunks in a short period of time because, let's face it at ANY time someone could undercut your price. And by undercutting 1-2k gil you can be sure it won't be worth anything soon.

Man!! I wish this comment right here was a big sign that showed everytime you logged in. LMAO... I don't understand why people don't understand this... Just a few days ago the black mage weapon used in the beginning relic quest was sitting at a nice 25k, I sold a few, but here comes some stupid guy just throws his in for 12k... Now, seeing this scared the hell out of me, so I bought his, and undercut the next man by 1 gil... But then this means I had more to sell... Next time I look, mines are still in there, and someone else puts one in for 9k... I have no idea what's going on in their head, but he just cost everyone's chance at making 20k a pop... I really don't get what goes on in there head...

One time I invented a link shell called Business Minded... With the goal to invite everyone to it that I see do stupid undercuts, and eventually inform all the stupid sellers on my server one stupid man at a time. But you know how many people I added to that linkshell... One guy!! Only one man was willing to listen, the rest hit me with, I farmed the materials, I didn't buy them... So its pure profit!!! What do you care what I sell my items for... One man even rudely told me to F off... I just don't get it... I guess these stupid people just don't want the extra gil every time they sell that said item... The man that sold that cudgel for 9k just didn't understand that he could have sold it 5 times for 20k plus a peice...

How can we inform the realm of this? How can we educate everyone? Make a macro that shouts in the city everyday? But... if the prices were hidden and you didn't see what everyone had theirs sold for, you couldn't just undercut that man directly, you would have to make a choice to undercut the price of the last one purchased, and the buyer wouldn't know that someone put one in that low, they would have to just go off of what the last man bought it for. This made people hover around the real price, and took longer for the price to actually drop.

I wouldn't mind if this was implemented as this is how it was in FFXI. And it would make a difference to the market.