Overhauling the Auction House system

[Felixforever]

Current system is just fine, if you don't like me undercutting you then lower your expectations of what your item is really worth.

[Jasmine_Aurelia]

Undercutting is a fact of life in any virtual game, just as it is a fact of anything in real life. The trade off in real life is shoddy goods, so people either put up with a drop in quality for a lower price or pay the higher premium, in a game quality on that scale doesn't truly exist, so you will always have undercutting. Nothing can ever truly be done about it, live with it.

[NoDRG]

Why are people resisting so passionately the thought of making a change to the market? Changing it to a FFXI style auction house
would hurt nobody and potentially help alot of players move product faster with less stress. Also, why are so many of you simply making the point
that FFXIV doesn't have an auction house? Have you no valid arguement against such a change so you opt to belittle people for using improper terminology?

[Rhas]

The fact is that the Market Board needs a change!

Wanna know something?

I don't undercut, in fact I usually charge *more* than the lowest price (around 80% of the time). I spend about 30 min to an hour a day gathering/crafting and make 15-50k daily. Not a huge amount because I get what I actually put into it. When I'm not 'overcutting' I usually set the price to the lowest sale price.

You just need to learn how to read the market, look for what's selling and what isn't. I'm not going to mention my exact methods but I typically outsell even at my higher prices. I could make loads more doing what I am doing if I put more time into gathering and crafting but I'm happy with my daily income just off what I gather/craft. This does not include other things I sell that I collect via dungeons/retainers/general landscape mobs/etc.

The current market board is fine as it is.

[NyarukoW]

Undercutting is a good thing. If it too low, it is flip opportunity. Buy low sell high. A system likes this encourages buyers to use it. It is not set up for sellers to exploit and gouge buyers which will earn hate from the vast majority of the player base.

[Rhas]

Undercutting is a good thing. If it too low, it is flip opportunity. Buy low sell high. A system likes this encourages buyers to use it.

I do that here and there too Especially if the item is a component piece that sells normally for say... 100 a piece and I can turn it into something else that sells for... 1000+ a piece

[Kewitt]

I believe the market boards as they currently working as intended.

They are mostly player driven, And If I craft for 1-2 hour I can easily make 300-400k in pre 50 crafts that all sell the same day I craft them with only 10/40 items being under cut from the price I put on.

I for the most part normally only put on HQ items as I can HQ 90% of the time.

Cost to make something 2-3k sells for 15k+ And it sells quickly so if you want more gil then that your just being greedy.

[LeCard]

The only overhaul I want to see is allowing people to choose the number of items they want to buy out of a stack that is placed up in the AH. The way it works now is unacceptable in my opinion and a huge pain in the proverbial arse. Everything else seems fine to me.

The only way this would work is if you could list an infinite (or nearly so) amount of an item with your retainer and only take up 1 retainer slot. This would mean that I could list 653 lets say Alumen for 130gil a pop and people could buy it like buying from an NPC, though obviously with the limited quantity available by my retainer. This 653 items would only take up 1 slot of my retainers selling capabilities, but this could mean that we need to drop selling from 20/retainer to 10/retainer. Aside from making a significant change like this such a system would only make things a monumental pain in the neck for people trying to sell things and keep an organized inventory without having to go through every single item listed for sale to check on quantity available.

As someone who regularly has 40/40 slots full in their retainers for sale section having to go over all of those items to check if anything is down to an amount that wont sell is just spine chilling.

If I see stacks on 99 when I only want 5, I can assure you that I will not buy the stack of 99 and waste my money unless the whole stack of 99 costs the same as or less than the 5 items I want.

Or you can do what I do some times, buy the stack of 99 use what you need and repost the rest on the MB to recoup any money you didn't "need" to spend. sometimes you can even make a profit at it. Though if the difference in cost is only a few gil to get the stack of 5 versus the stack of 99 it isn't worth fretting the extra gil per item.