Undercutting by 1 gil?

[Lazaruz]

I have no lack of gil myself - I've enough for a large house and a medium if I really wanted it, so honestly it isn't a huge deal to me if I lose out on profits and I would imagine for most people who are serious about the market boards, this is also the case (for me it's just fun to set and try to meet a quota of 1 million gil per day in sales). And I can tell you that if you would like to "strike gold" and get enough for a house, you need to undercut by 1 gil and care at least a little about the market's health. Sure, you can't control other idiots on the board and the markets can be easily crashed but you can at least help by not contributing to it. I'm sure a lot of the crashes that happen are from spiteful people.


But you know, I will undercut by 1 gil. If someone tanks the market, I'll just hold onto the item until the prices go back up (unless it literally takes little effort to get/make that item and I actually don't mind losing the profit). I haven't been denied my profit, just had it put off a bit. No big deal, I'll just list something else. Or, if you've tanked it a ridiculous amount then I'll just do what Rhus said and buy it and resell it getting double the profit with no effort. ....Would you still feel satisfied knowing that you may in some cases double someone's profit with no effort?

Anyway, I guess there isn't much to say if you admit you're just being spiteful and you don't actually care about how healthy the mb is. :I

Oh believe me, I figured it out a long time ago that if I wanted to properly get somewhere in terms of playing the marketboard for profit, I'd have to devote significantly more time and effort, aswell as changing my pattern on undercutting, so you're very much so preaching to the choir in that regard. For a multitude of reasons however, doing my item listing "properly" is not a option for me, and it's not something I consider necessary either, as I have enough gil to get by in regards to what I spend it on, and dont gather enjoyment outof what, in my head, would be percieved as pure hoarding for the sake of hoarding.

And by all means, I have no doubt that a good number of people I've been competing with on the MB once I got spiteful and just started slowly dropping the price, just withdrew their items and waited for the price to go back up. It is however why in hindsight, it's incorrect of me to focus on garnering enjoyment outof "denying profit", because a more proper wording would be denying or delaying said profit. And I know for a fact some people have bought me out, and then opted to relist both items at the initial price. While in effect yes I did give them "double the profit", dependant on the item, lord knows how long it could take for them to sell both items, especially when, if I'm feeling particularly spitefull and see a competitor buying me out (to then relist at original price) on a item I can craft withouth too much effort, I'll make another, and start the process over again.

But when push comes to shove. No, it's absolutely no skin off my back if someone I'm competing with, buys me out, and then relists and sells the item at the "original" price, because at the end of the day I managed my goal. My item got sold, and for more then it would've if I sold it to a NPC



But you're absolutely right, there's not much else to say in this regard. I'm a spitefull prick, and fundamentaly, I cannot find it in me to truly care about maintaining MB prices, since I know for a fact there's far more people then me who feel the same