Quote Originally Posted by nyttyn View Post
that argument doesn't really work.

there are far too many people with an extremely poor grasp of economics whom flood the market with supply at prices that are legitimately far lower than what people are proven and willing to pay. which is something you rarely, if ever see in a true supply: demand model because, obviously, nobody wants to burn money. it's impossible to actually argue about supply and demand when the source of supply is unrealistic.

i mean you can like or hate undercutting but you can't argue they have no power on the items traded with any degree of of a constant basis, b/c undercutters are unrealistic as fuck in how low they'll sell things for in this game (literally hundreds of thousands of items sold for less than vendor price, for the most infamous example of this).
If someone is selling for a very low price, they usually don't have too much of the item and just want to get rid of it = they don't influence the market in the long run. AND if they are actually selling for lower than the cost of materials, just buy them out and sell for actual amounts, you will save gil and time, they will sell what they want to sell, everyone is happy.