Undercutting

[Dashuto]

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Not only did you care enough about my post, but you cared enough to mock it up to sound even worse.

Did I strike a nerve perhaps?

To make profit you should keep a cool head. The purpose of my tactics seems lost on you.

Its something called "market control". By controlling the prices, when it inflates or deflates, and discouraging my competition, I end up in control of the market.

I first realized this from a crafter on FFXI named "Semitry", who beat me up pretty good on my way up. I'm sure anyone who career crafted on Midgardsormr would remember this fellow.

He would blast the market with dozens of HQ Scorpion harness to force the price of NQ's into nil, he bought out materials used to level to 100 out from beneath people and skyrocketed their price, stockpiling loads of it that would never be used, all to control the market, make profit off his desperate competitors, and trick elitists into paying 1000% for the HQ product. Then he'd let the market sit and resell those loads of cheap NQ's at a profit.

At first I was angry- but then I realized just how effective his tactic was. He had "market control", he was able to directly manipulate its prices, his profit, and the possibility of those willing to compete with him at all.

So at that point I decided to learn from it. I enter into a field of about 4-5 goods and I use a very similar method, I drive out my competition while stocking up, then make profit off the stock, then drive it higher for even more profit. Others begin trying to hop on board and make profit from my efforts there- and then I start the process again, often demolishing them in the process. Not always, just often.