Do the developers even care about the market board, and its problems?

[Eye_Gore]

I love the items where, say 20 are listed and when you look at them each one is just 1 gil less than the other.

[Eagleheart]

I love the items where, say 20 are listed and when you look at them each one is just 1 gil less than the other.

Yep.

Certain folks in this thread would have us believe that's free market capitalism at work there, when (>.>) really it's not a question of acceptable profit margins, but just one guy with more time on his hands protecting his niche by dropping the price by 1/5,000th or less several times per hour.

Don't feed me this "acceptable profit" BS, people, it's laughable.

[Memex]

I love the items where, say 20 are listed and when you look at them each one is just 1 gil less than the other.

I go out of my way to buy the original priced item if I see this happening if I want to buy an undercut item I want to save considerable gil and 1 gil less will just annoy me enough to ignore that listing