Occasionally it might be stupidity. Usually it's someone just offering their junk to whoever actually wants it, either to be nice or just because it's a convenient way to clear it out of their inventory.


Quote Originally Posted by Cyndra View Post
My suggestions:

1. Prices are blocked such that they cannot be set lower than what can be achieved from selling directly to an NPC.

2. Prices are additionally blocked such that they cannot be set lower than 10% below the average of all similar items (differentiated between NQ and HQ).
#1 wouldn't be too bad, but #2 would be asking for griefing. Pick any low-level item and post a couple listed at several Million. Now nobody can sell it. (It could even happen accidentally, without deliberate griefing, since selling a simple item to themselves for lots of gil is a common workaround for people wanting to transfer gil to their alt characters.)

I do think it would make more sense to use the price at which NPC vendors will sell an item rather than the price at which they'll buy it back as the initial starting price when you put something up. Of course, SE would then have to choose a selling price even for items they don't sell, but they can probably work that out well enough. Besides that, no other changes are really needed. If someone wants to be generous, let them.


Quote Originally Posted by AskaRay View Post
The tax isn't applied at things below a hundred gil if I remember correctly.. it's something like that. Maybe ten gil. Either way no tax for those low amounts.
It's a 5% tax (rounded down), so the threshold for where it starts is 20 gil, which is where 5% reaches 1. (But that's a total of 20 gil for the lot if it's a stackable item. So there's no way to avoid tax on stacks of 20 or more.)