Gee I wonder why my stuff hasn't sold in a week *checks*

[Adire]

The Market board is the single most cutthroat battlefield in XIV, you can think of 8k price drops as a limit break to insure victory, and 1 gil price cutters as a nasty status effect.

Victory Fanfare should play whenever all your stuff sells, make it happen SE!

You win the internet, sir. This suggestion needs to be brought up in the next Q&A and your comment deserves the likes of all players on the forums.

[dayspring83]

I really can't sit at a market board dropping things by 1 gil all day just to try to make that sale. If you can do that, well enjoy your 8.5k. I'd rather not deal with the 1 gil undercutting wars.

I sure as hell don't sit at the market board all day...not sure where you got that from. The problem is you guys are checking/adjusting your price too often causing other to do the same.

I think what I'm trying to say is people need to be more patient. Who cares if something sells now or 20 minutes from now.

[dayspring83]

wtb auction system so people bid and the prices go up not down

I'm with you...it took me a little while to figure out this market board system and how to play it but I would honestly prefer a blind bid system.

[Aryalandi]

You win the internet, sir. This suggestion needs to be brought up in the next Q&A and your comment deserves the likes of all players on the forums.

Thank you for that, it really should be a thing that happens~

[MugenMugetsu]

If I don't agree with the listed price for an item I'm selling, I hold off until the low price items have sold, and I can sell at the price I feel the item is worth. I'm not investing my time into farming and crafting only to barely make any gil. Also, when undercutting, I only undercut by 3 gil. I hate hate hate when people undercut by hundreds+.

[Rendecrow]

I know Im probably going to get flamed for bringing this up.... but.... RMT is probably a big reason that the markets fluctuate so much. In every MMO there is always RMT, but when they simply let it run rampant like it is now, then you have even bigger problems.

[Elusana_Celah]

I sure as hell don't sit at the market board all day...not sure where you got that from. The problem is you guys are checking/adjusting your price too often causing other to do the same.

I think what I'm trying to say is people need to be more patient. Who cares if something sells now or 20 minutes from now.

I wasn't exaggerating when I said things don't sell for a week and I look at the market board and the standard price has actually dropped by 50-75% and there's no prospects in the long run of it selling back at the normal price. I'm not letting it sit there for a month in hopes that prices might go back up.

I tried the buying out all the cheap stuff and reselling approach but then I had to fight with undercutters literally an hour later and it was beyond stressful and time consuming... just for the price to eventually drop once again. I barely managed to sell them to get my money back without a loss lol.

[Rendecrow]

I wasn't exaggerating when I said things don't sell for a week and I look at the market board and the standard price has actually dropped by 50-75% and there's no prospects in the long run of it selling back at the normal price. I'm not letting it sit there for a month in hopes that prices might go back up.

Feels like a little bit of an exaggeration. I use the market board a lot and while price drops and rises do happen, I dont see to many radical 75% swings. Ultimately the market comes down to supply and demand. It sounds to me that you may be setting your prices to high when there is to great of a supply in the market.

I usually sell stuff within hours of listing it. I usually pick a price point that is 10 to 15% below the market and my stuff sells quickly. So something that I would sell for 5,000 gil I would usually sell for 4,300 gil, and it almost always sells quickly. Granted sometimes undercutting makes it "not worth it", but if the extra 10% is the difference between it being "worth it or not" then you are probably selling the wrong items in the first place.


EDIT: Thought I would also add that prices always drop in mmos before new expansions come out. Hope that helps! :P When the expansion does come out expect 300% price increases! lol

[Elusana_Celah]

Feels like a little bit of an exaggeration.

Different servers, different markets. I mean my server is RMT central network. We even have an FC of bots I noticed it seeing some black mage bots with garbled names standing around:

[Rendecrow]

Different servers, different markets.

Still follows supply and demand rules no matter which server you are on. The only way such radical (75%) price drops would happen is if suddenly tons of people started listing the same items or if suddenly tons of people stopped buying said item.