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

[Lucke]

There may be a problem with the "buy up the cheap crap and resell it" strategy.

Let's say I wanna sell an item. We'll call it item A. I look at the price history and see that for the most part, this item sells fairly well at 300k gil. The goods currently for sale are at 150k gil. Assuming I have the capital, I buy up the entire supply and resell everything at 300k. Okay, here's where the problem lies. The person you bought it from just made a sale. He or she will go "Yippie! My item A sold! I'ma put more up!" So what do they do? Put more up at 150k. So Now I have to buy that one and sell it at 300k. But their item just sold again, so they re-list it again...at 150k. So more items are coming in faster than I can (re)sell mine. This depends on the items I guess though.


If the person is smart, she or he will look at the history too and notice the same person bought pretty much the entire supply. If they are REALLY smart, they'll notice the same retainer is selling the same number of items that were just sold...hmmm. Now the undercutter is wise to you and will prolly do everything they can to prevent you from making the 300k sale.

Now, keep in mind I have no idea if this would even happen. I'm not an expert on the MB. I don't have my Doctorate on Marketboardology nor did I write a thesis on the marketboards. I'm just an outsider looking in.

[Eye_Gore]

There may be a problem with the "buy up the cheap crap and resell it" strategy.

Someone or maybe two people together tried this. When I started off my relic and I needed Battledance 3 to meld, I went to the MB to get it. The cheapest one on there was around 300k. Was like, ok I guess I'll make some armour and SB it myself. Then I checked the history, all the previous sales were for around 50k bought up all by the same two names, almost all of it. Guessing they tried to do what you were saying.

Needless to say when I went back a couple days later the prices were back down to 50k and not a single sale of any above 100k.