Idea against Undercutting at the Marketboard (The next.. )

[RyuDragnier]

Hello fellow Eorzeans,

after having another raging episode on my end after seeing the Marketboards this morning I ask myself why people would undercut massively.


I'm not talking the 17.000 to 16.999 or 16.500; Hell even 13.000..
No I'm talking about dropping from 17.000 down to 10.000 or even lower.
Everyone else is adjusting prices - I'm not. If I see im beeing undercut by 1Gil I dont give a damn.
If I list up an Item; I match the current price best price and just wait and see.
I dont need to undercut my competetors because I know that this would ruin the marketprice.

Last Sunday, Ehcatl Sealant was listet dof ~329.000Gil; Right now its at 298.000 because ppl keep underbidding themself. So before I start a tl:dr;

Can't we just invent a system that will stop undercutting to a minimum price
that will adjust itself daily/weekly and is beeing calculated through
recent sales in GIl, Quantity and influenced by the Number of demands and suppliers?

Personally I feel you should never be able to undercut lower than 1% of the item being sold (unless that's less than 1 gil, at which point 1 gil is the lowest). It's selling for 100K? You can only lower that price by 1K. Selling for 10K? Can only drop it by 100 gil. Selling for 1k? 10 gil. 100? 1 gil. You get the picture. It prevents a massive amount of undercutting at its roots, while at the same time still being effective the higher the cost of things. Then again, what do I know? I just give out ideas.

[MomomiMomi]

Personally I feel you should never be able to undercut lower than 1% of the item being sold (unless that's less than 1 gil, at which point 1 gil is the lowest). It's selling for 100K? You can only lower that price by 1K. Selling for 10K? Can only drop it by 100 gil. Selling for 1k? 10 gil. 100? 1 gil. You get the picture. It prevents a massive amount of undercutting at its roots, while at the same time still being effective the higher the cost of things. Then again, what do I know? I just give out ideas.

Have fun waiting to sell when the first listing of an item is 999,999,999 gil.