Selling for ridiculously high amounts

[DoctorPepper]

Wow if people aren't complaining about undercutters people are complaining about selling at hight prices

Says the guy complaining about complaining..

[Eye_Gore]

There's a sucker born every minute.

[Codek]

It's hard to anticipate, but some items have moments where a drastic buyouts occurs leading to the higher priced items possibly getting bought out.

If a seller isn't trying to dump items as fast as possible then it can be a valid strategy to price an item above average to see if it gets picked up over the weekend. Of course, the example in the OP is very extreme and doesn't really seem likely to fit this strategy.

[SalemP]

Could be they posted it when there were no other items for sale thinking someone would be desperate enough to pay that much. Then obv the marketplace filled up and they never took it down.

[PArcher]

I always did (still do actually) this as extra storage.

Have had a few things accidentally sell, but I did get some good gil for it so, meh. Just make sure I price it way too high when I really want to keep it

[Risvertasashi]

Not complaining. Just curious as to why people do this. Hey, maybe there's some hidden advantage that I could also use?

20 free extra storage slots per retainer

[SalemP]

Have had a few things accidentally sell, but I did get some good gil for it so, meh. Just make sure I price it way too high when I really want to keep it

If I "accidentally" sold 10 ores for 10 million gil, I wouldn't shed a tear over it :P

[Alberel]

I've seen someone manipulate prices for all kinds of things and cause prices to spike by as much as 100k. People then start listing at the new price and the price crashes back to normal within a matter of hours. You're then left with listings made at fair prices just hours ago that are now 90k above the current norm. That's generally how this happens. Blame people trying to manipulate and fix prices.

[Shadray]

I do this all the time. Its an extra 20 slots of storage and if someone does buy them then I can always replace them with the gill i made.

[Xystic]

By placing an item up there for a rather large amount lets say 100k, people will start to undercut you slowly if a market sells out up to your item. This can bring an item that is worth 4-5k today up to 40-50k over night.

Its a very common tactic.