Quote Originally Posted by Havenchild View Post
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You're still thinking short term. Yes, at first the 1 gil undercutting method takes longer. Eventually though you reach max fair market price, which is where you want to be for the best economy and the stuff sells at about the same rate as it's put up. This will fluctuate with supply and demand of course, but the ideal is to maintain maximum fair market price. Large undercuts skip over this value and over time end up lowering the maximum fair market price. Lower it far enough and those people responsible for supplying the item will leave the market and you've created a scarcity. So now, not only have you made the economy less over all, which hurts everybody, but you've also made it harder to find those items you are looking for.