How to Short Sell Items on MB

[StouterTaru]

What items would you even use this on, and what benefit does it have over just buy low/sell high?

Malicious is the wrong word for it, but short selling is detrimental to stock holders. You're betting on a hiccup while doing something that fuels that hiccup. The money you make in the process isn't from nowhere, it comes from other people. You add nothing to the system on the investor or investee side, you just weasel yourself in as an unnecessary middle man to take a cut.

[IIBEEFCAKESII]

What items would you even use this on, and what benefit does it have over just buy low/sell high?

Malicious is the wrong word for it, but short selling is detrimental to stock holders. You're betting on a hiccup while doing something that fuels that hiccup. The money you make in the process isn't from nowhere, it comes from other people. You add nothing to the system on the investor or investee side, you just weasel yourself in as an unnecessary middle man to take a cut.

It works with any item. The lower the price, of course, the more bulk you need. The higher the price, the more single units you can sell. A lower priced item that would be a good example is Sticky Rice. SR on my server goes anywhere from 100-150 per unit all the way up to 300-350. If I have 50 units of SR and sell them @ 350 a piece I have 17500. If I then wait until the bottom of the trend and buyback the product at, let's say 150 per unit, I have made 10000 Gil. Not to mention, the Gil I made off reinvesting when SR trends down. Also by reinvesting this Gil in an undervalued market stockholders in the items I buy with SR revenue BENEFIT. Like a seesaw.

Somtimes, this might be detrimental to select stock holders in the short, but in selling SR when it is in demand I have increased liquidity of that item. Yes the price of the SR you have might go down after mine hit the market and sell, but the player looking for that item in high demand on the weekend, lets say a Culinarian, received a service. Item liquidity demand is even more apparent in non-bulk markets such armor, weapons, etc.. Sometimes it is needed to bring down an over valued market.

There are two sides to the coin, you can't strictly limit the scenario as "selling product "A" hurts "x" person" because there is actually a person "z" that benefited. What I add to the system is ITEM LIQUIDITY, completely necessary for markets to function. If everyone horded their items and never sold short then products become more scarce leading to inflation.

Also, the benefit over buying low and selling high is stated in one of my previous posts:

"Instead of buying low and selling high w/ "A" retained in short, it's selling "A" high, rebuying later low, & putting the Gil to work w/ another item. This results in value accumulation over time that otherwise would never have happened if was static."

You have more items working for you basically. YOU MAKE MORE GIL!