MB and selling lower than vendor prices

[ChameleonMS]

Buy them up and sell them to the npcs. Make your profit and call it a day.

[FunkyBunch]

Buy them up and sell them to the npcs. Make your profit and call it a day.

With taxes, it makes it not profitable to do so most of the time. Though I did buy 30 of one item yesterday.
When there are 20 items, of the same thing at just under vendor prices, it doesn't make any sense.

Notice I didn't say you had to go to the vendor to sell, I said, let the MB auto-buy them from you if you go under. So you don't lose extra money and the MB stays healthier by ensuring there isn't a flood of money losing items on it. If you want to be nice, just sell it for a few gil more than the vendor purchase price.

It's literally a win-win. You get more gils when you sell things because you don't have to wait for someone to buy your money losing item. Gil is generated instead of lost. (Every item sold on the MB takes gil out of the economy in the form of taxes).
It's just an idea that saves everyone time and gil.

[ChameleonMS]

With taxes ... at just under vendor prices, it doesn't make any sense.

With the near vendor prices you are absolutely correct. I was referring more to the items, that for whatever reason, drop to like 50% of NPC prices (I have seen them).
I would postulate that people get too caught up in the race to be first on the board instead of calculating value.

[FunkyBunch]

With the near vendor prices you are absolutely correct. I was referring more to the items, that for whatever reason, drop to like 50% of NPC prices (I have seen them).
I would postulate that people get too caught up in the race to be first on the board instead of calculating value.

And with an auto-vendor, they'd get an alert saying "The MB has purchased your weapon due to lower than vendor purchase price" or something, so you stop them right away, after one item. They can continue to vendor if they want, but they no longer clog up the board.