Quote Originally Posted by Kosmos992k View Post
Price fixing doesn't help and ultimately harms the market, and all who participate in it. The truth is that the Eikon gear will only sell at a price someone is willing to pay, over time (just as happened with the thavnarian bustier and other once rare glamour gear) supply increases and prices drop. It doesn't matter if some small clique of crafters dominate initially, sooner or later they will have to drop their prices so they can sell the things. As other crafters come into the market with the same items, and the supply of the materials needed for the craft similalry increases, the price will fall.
Yes, and while the weeks/months pass of the MB full of Crafted sets priced at 10million gil for a non-HQ piece, players will run dungeons and buy tomestone gear. The longer the wait, the more de-valued the crafted set becomes, particularly as Tomestone gear can be upgraded beyond what Crafted Gear is.

I don't believe in price fixing. I believe in some automated system wherein prices get dropped to a, "Reasonable," level within a short period of time. The higher the price, the faster it goes down. So when you've got that new crafted non-HQ belt at 10 million gil, by the end of day 1, it drops to 9 million. By the end of week 1, down to 3 million. Stops dropping at about 10% of the original listed priced. At any time buyers can, of course, take the item off the market board and put it up again at the original price, but hopefully they'll realize after the umpteenth time of putting that non-HQ belt up for 10 million gil that no one wants to pay that much.