Market Board Suggestion

[Mito123]

This problem might have been addressed, but the problem for purchasing from the market board can be a nuisance. If a person decides to sell an item in a huge quantity and lets say I need to purchase 3 of them but all of the sellers are selling in huge quantities. I should be able to choose how many I would like to buy from that specific seller without having to only buy it in a huge unnecessary amount.

[ChameleonMS]

You request has been asked for many times and has always fallen on deaf ears.

[tocsin]

idea.

the conversation was even dragged out over like 20 pages of posts once.

I, for one, am against this. I only offer the cheapest as a bulk discount. if I wanted to put them up in smaller stacks, I would make them more expensive.

I only have 80 sell slots. I don't want one of them being taken up for a week of someone buying one, buying two, buying five, and having to worry about undercutting for that entire week. I just want to sell it, and give me my slot back so I can sell something else. I have a waiting list of things just waiting for open slots.

[Eye_Gore]

Just buy the stack use what you need and sell the rest. I have actually made a ton of extra gil doing this (depending on the item). Even if it sells at the same price you bought it for you'll get your money back.

[KisaiTenshi]

Just buy the stack use what you need and sell the rest. I have actually made a ton of extra gil doing this (depending on the item). Even if it sells at the same price you bought it for you'll get your money back.

This pretty much.

For most cheap materials that are undervalued, you can just buy the 99 stacks, use what you need, and then sell the small stack back on the market and have someone else buy it because they don't want 99 either.

[BreathlessTao]

Just buy the stack use what you need and sell the rest. I have actually made a ton of extra gil doing this (depending on the item). Even if it sells at the same price you bought it for you'll get your money back.

For most cheap materials that are undervalued, you can just buy the 99 stacks, use what you need, and then sell the small stack back on the market and have someone else buy it because they don't want 99 either.

...yeah, if there was no undercutting (or at least not the extent there is), this could work well. But chances are, by the time it's put back on again, it won't even sell for as much as it was purchased for. So people end up losing their money.

And regardless of that - this is technically still chipping away, the same thing OP is asking for, only much more overcomplicated. And unnecessarily so. Say you put up a stack of 99 of whatever, nobody buys it because nobody needs that many. You'll be forced to take it down and split it into smaller quantities. By that time, the price goes down as well, probably. In the same amount of time though, if people are allowed to buy as many as they want from stacks, you might have sold about half or even more of it, for the original price.

As far as I remember, 1.0 had it like this, buyers could decide how many they wanted to buy from a stack. I'm not aware of a reason why this was changed...

[Gillionaire]

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You need to play with the MB a little more and learn the effect of stack sized on selling an item.
Even if your price is outrageous, if you have the right stack size, it WILL sell. You just have to know how many a potential customer would need, which city they may be buying from, time of the day to account for undercutters etc. etc.

People just complain about the MB because there are other people doing fairly well on it who spend the time learning about ins and outs of the market and they can't figure out why their stuff doesn't sell.

[Lethallin]

No.

If I want to sell in bulk at a bulk price, let me.

If you need a few of an item, buy a stack then relist the rest in smaller quantities. You can deal with it for the extra gil you can get for it.

[Sibyll]

This is like asking Costcos to give you the bulk price without having to buy bulk quantities.

If you find that you need something that only is being sold in stacks of 99 and you don't like it, then farm the item yourself. Why stop there, you could farm extra and sell in smaller stacks to cater to people like yourself.

[Ashkendor]

This is like asking Costcos to give you the bulk price without having to buy bulk quantities.

If you find that you need something that only is being sold in stacks of 99 and you don't like it, then farm the item yourself. Why stop there, you could farm extra and sell in smaller stacks to cater to people like yourself.

This. I make big profits selling things like food, ingots, lumber, and leather in very small quantities.

If I list in a big stack I want to get rid of a big stack, not have people pick at it.