How to Undercut

[MrPresident]

Someone undercut my night pegasus whistle by 7 million. I still don't get it. Why not 1 million? Why not 5? Bizarre.

[Leowilde]

There's just one way to properly undercut, and that's not at all. -_-

[Iscah]

What were retainer wards? (Other than terror incarnate, apparently...)

[Bongaboi]

It seems like a lot of people need a lesson on this.


1. Evaluate the prices.

2. Go 200-500 Gil lower first. Do not just drop it by 10,000 Gil. You do want to make money right?

3. Your thing gets overshadowed by lower prices. No big deal! If everyone priced at lower increments, instead of being desperate, we’d all get similar profits from that item. Unless it becomes more common however. Items demoted to being common will naturally fall in price.

That’s it. It’s simple. Please don’t undercut obnoxiously.

I go one gil cheaper than the cheapest on the market. But if I have the only HQ item on the market, I set a reasonable price.

[Melondra]

Blinding the MB would solve that problem, you can see what it sold for last but not any of the current prices. The reason why FFXI used this system was to keep its economy stable. And it worked great for over 10 years and still continues to work well today. However for the current MB we have the biggest mistake people make is undercutting, always cut the stack amount not the price of the item. Remeber your stuff will eventually sell, while everyone else is takeing massive losses you will make a great profit. CUT THE STACK COUNT not the price.

[Synestra]

People who complain about undercutting are generally the one who don't understand economics 101 and flood the market with goods. Supply, demand.

Well i hate both undercutters and flooders, even if something is abundant or easy to make you should always sell in small amounts to create illusion of low supply so you can milk harder.

[NephthysVasudan]

Why is this even a thing? Free Market - people do what they want.....not like you can stop them anyway.

[Maero]

Sure there are other reasons players may undercut but also the fact that some really overprice stuff so in a way undercutting can help bring cost down.

[Bobs]

Here the fix:
Bring back retainer wards 1.0

Ha, that was a prime example of why 1.0 was terrible.

The devs saw that we as individual players were selling stuff outside Juno, and enough people started doing it to feel like a bazaar. What they didn't seem to understand was that we were doing it because there is no Tax outside of the city. So you could sell something for 50mil without talking a 5mil hit.

They saw how people were playing the game, but the completely missed the reason why they were playing it that way.

It would be nice if we could sell things on main character again. I miss that part.

[Baingoleth]

Aw. It's the steers versus the cubs. How adorable.