Broken Market Board by Rich Players.

[kidalutz]

Another example of extreme stupidity, sales history shows between 65k and 80k. I have sold many at 70k myself... then just ONE idiot ruins it for everyone.

You know every post youre making just makes it look like you're the one in the bad right?

Calling people idiots for undercutting etc. etc. etc.

[Nabril]

Another example of extreme stupidity, sales history shows between 65k and 80k. I have sold many at 70k myself... then just ONE idiot ruins it for everyone.

Since it's been said that those stalls are easy to make, there is nothing wrong with selling them at 30k. Selling them for 80k is greedy.

[Gula]

Since it's been said that those stalls are easy to make, there is nothing wrong with selling them at 30k. Selling them for 80k is greedy.

Yeah. I've seen some really early level crafts sold on Mateus for like 5x the price on a server with more crafters. It's not like it uses materials from Uznair or something.

[Nixxe]

Another example of extreme stupidity, sales history shows between 65k and 80k. I have sold many at 70k myself... then just ONE idiot ruins it for everyone.

Aggressively undercut it down to cost a bit at a time and prevent anyone else from selling one until they're basically eating dirt to undercut you. That will clear out the market.

[Windsun33]

It's a fact that there are always some items on MB that are hugely overpriced. One that I recently sold a bunch of had a few listed in the 300K range. They cost me perhaps 30 min and 5K to make 6 of them. So far 4 out of 6 have sold for 160K in 3 days. Previous history shows that about 3-4 per month were being sold - which tells me you cannot always go by the past history for pricing.

[KageTokage]

I have noticed that certain materials on the MB (Most commonly the drops specific to ARR dungeons needed to make furniture/glams) have a trend of being bought out enmass by specific individuals on my server, even though they aren't re-selling said items or the things made with them.

I'm not sure what the thought process behind this behavior is.

[aesteval]

I have noticed that certain materials on the MB (Most commonly the drops specific to ARR dungeons needed to make furniture/glams) have a trend of being bought out enmass by specific individuals on my server, even though they aren't re-selling said items or the things made with them.

I'm not sure what the thought process behind this behavior is.

...could be that they're buying mats for personal use...

Or they could be someone who offers their services in housing decoration, not exactly something listable on the marketboard.

Hoarding is another option, especially when prices get cheap for certain items.

Things Belah'dian glass end up being used in quantities because who's going to only make one lamp when they're decorating (as an example.)

[Jojoya]

I have noticed that certain materials on the MB (Most commonly the drops specific to ARR dungeons needed to make furniture/glams) have a trend of being bought out enmass by specific individuals on my server, even though they aren't re-selling said items or the things made with them.

I'm not sure what the thought process behind this behavior is.

I buy up items needed to make chocobo bardings and then give away those bardings to my FC members. Whether they choose to use the barding or resell it is up to them.

I also occasionally buy up large quantities of materials to make other items to giveaway to them as well.

There are any number of reasons why the materials might be getting purchased without an equivalent finished product making it's way back to the market board.

[Nixxe]

I have noticed that certain materials on the MB (Most commonly the drops specific to ARR dungeons needed to make furniture/glams) have a trend of being bought out enmass by specific individuals on my server, even though they aren't re-selling said items or the things made with them.

I'm not sure what the thought process behind this behavior is.

Reselling is a game best played over the course of months, not days.

[AnimaAnimus]

What is worse is ppl who buy out things on the mb and artificially raise the price. Just had this happen on sarg awhile ago. Gyr Albanian plait was an average of 700k. Same person bought them all up, put them back up at 10m, then used another character to buy them to create a past sale record and then put them back up at 10m each again. This was all done over the course of about 40 minutes (I was watching as I was going to buy one for an alt). Its taken weeks for the price to return to somewhat normal and they are still at around 2m.