Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
No solution is required. Everyone knows that you can buy, for example, salmon pink at a vendor. However, some players may not wish to actually take the time to go to the vendor, and so they buy the dye (marked up considerably) from the MB for the convenience. To you, this looks like simple profiteering, but to others it is a matter of convenience. Welcome to theworldof supply and demand.
Sorry to say not everyone knows this, yes it's convenient for some especially with people sitting around with millions of Gil with nothing to spend it on, but not all. There were times when I was fishing in Limsa didn't feel like going all that way to get more bait so I bit the bullet & bought from the mb. When you first started playing you can't tell me you knew what was available & where on day 1 or a week later for that matter. In fact I bet there are some casual players that play here & there & they don't know that bait for example is sold in the residential areas. So it is profiteering on some occasions. I've seen plenty of people in game & on here asking where to get such & such. You don't need to welcome me to it I went to college for business I know how it works.