Quote Originally Posted by Tint View Post
i remember i was the first one on the market with a super rare item, i wanted to sell it for 4 mio gil. it took weeks and nobody wanted to buy it. i checked several times per day if someone else was putting the same itemon the market too.

so after weeks of waiting someone else put the same item for 1 gil less than me on the market, and sold it withing 1 hour. i was SO salty xD

but however, before that i was thinking i should be fair, not undercut, only set it on the same price, and so on. but since then i undercut everyone by usually 10 gil, because that's just how the market works. people will always buy the item on the top of the list. they will even pay thousands of gil for the taxes jus to save this 1 gil, because they don't understand how the market works.

and to understand that the people don't understand how the market works, is important to understand how the market REALLY works...
That is not completely why, though it can hold true in some cases. Its more lazy, FFXIV's whole ecnon is dependent on the lazy, so it makes sense to fit such a personality to have people just click the first name they see.

To the TC, people HAVE to undercut because FFXIV's econ is so slow moving, if you want to sell something, you need be on top of the list. That is why I do not understand people that do it in large amounts, it doesn't magically sell faster.