Monopoly of a market

[Kakure]

Our FC does this when the CC is maxed on shards/crystals/clusters. 8-9 retainers, all 20 slots on each, buy up the stacks others posted under our price. Fills our cc gol coffers allowing us to have free repairs, pay for raid progression items etc without breaking our personal coffers.

Totally legit economic practice.

Sorry, but any money-making strategy that falls apart if consumers are not arbitrarily constrained (in this case, by UI design that prevents them from seeing more than 100 listings) is pretty much the exact opposite of a "legit economic practice."

It sounds like you're doing the RMT bots quite a service though. I suppose that's something, right?

[Caitlinzulu]

I've seen it done elsewhere, but differently. Someone was putting up several stacks, oddly undercutting themselves several times. All NQ items, but not quite covering all 100 hits. Kind of broke the HQ market for a bit though.

You do know that you can turn on a filter so that the list only displays HQ items? Its the button right next to the one that displays sale history.

[PirateCat]

You do know that you can turn on a filter so that the list only displays HQ items? Its the button right next to the one that displays sale history.

Regardless, if a good portion of the playerbase doesn't know about this (and the game doesn't go out of its way to explain how the filter works) then it still detracts from being able to sell the HQ version.

[Iagainsti]

Sorry, but any money-making strategy that falls apart if consumers are not arbitrarily constrained (in this case, by UI design that prevents them from seeing more than 100 listings) is pretty much the exact opposite of a "legit economic practice."

It sounds like you're doing the RMT bots quite a service though. I suppose that's something, right?

Whether or not you are "constrained"(oh my Twelve, really?) by the market listings totalling 100, flooding a market with commodity at a set price and buying up said commodity at a lower price is not against this game's ToS, therefore, it is a legitimate economic strategy, so multiple things being done "right".

i'll mail you some tissues I purchased with the profits ;D

[StouterTaru]

Those evil rich bastages, buying items from undercutters and stabilizing price markets, while making a profit.

Where did I leave my pitchfork at?

[MeridaQ]

I don't think my server has any issues like this, I can't think of an item where there are 100 listings. I guess bigger servers run into this. :3

[Iagainsti]

I don't think my server has any issues like this, I can't think of an item where there are 100 listings. I guess bigger servers run into this. :3

Not for, what I call, "commodity" items. Materials, minions, furnishings, their prices and demand/supply change drastically from patch to patch. Materia, Crystals are like oil and gold; dependable, don't move much in price, and you'll always see loads of them on the MB, even on small servers like ours.

[Enkonda]

I've definitely encountered this multiple times throughout my Disciple of Hand & Land leveling. I gather a large quantity of a resource and I'm all excited to sell it on the Market; low and behold, someone decided to make sure that I have absolutely no way of making a profit without going above them in price which obviously, would be ludicrous. I knew I should've paid attention to my high school's economic teacher. But...I guess it is a legit practice...people do that in real life so it's only natural for the practice to find itself on here.

[AskaRay]

I will without remorse crash the glamour prism market when I feel people are getting too greedy.

By that I mean when ONLY stacks of them are being sold at, like, 15k each.
I'm not fucking buying that stack of 10 when I just need one for a total of 100k or whatever and neither should anyone else.