The Market Board makes me sad.

[Dfess]

It's done for a quicker sale.
Undercuts the market, and sells faster.

A quick buck isn't the best way to get rich. All you do is slow the rate at which everyone gets rich wich lowers your rate of getting rich even more.

[Hash_Browns]

A quick buck isn't the best way to get rich. All you do is slow the rate at which everyone gets rich wich lowers your rate of getting rich even more.

Going to be real with you here. I don't care about gil because it's at a point where it's almost worthless to me, and I don't even have that much.

When I'm selling items, it's simply because they are worth selling for gil instead of giving them to a vendor, and I want them gone as fast as possible. I always gain a profit because the items cost me nothing. However, I'm also petty, so when I put up an item for 5,000,000 gil, and someone drops their items price to 4,999,999 gil - I'm more then happy to drop mine to half price to kindly tell them to get lost.

[Nezerius]

A quick buck isn't the best way to get rich. All you do is slow the rate at which everyone gets rich wich lowers your rate of getting rich even more.

Not everyone is aiming to get rich. There's players who just want to make a bit of gil, and aren't interested in waiting too long for it.
Then there's the players who craft a lot. Since marketboard listings are limited to 20 per retainer, they'll sometimes prefer for items to be sold at a faster rate. Lowering the price is one way to speed things up.

[AxlStream]

A quick buck isn't the best way to get rich. All you do is slow the rate at which everyone gets rich wich lowers your rate of getting rich even more.

This ain't Wall Street lady!

[DumdogsWorld]

This ain't Wall Street lady!

You're right. It's Baelsar's Wall Street. And right now, everything going on here is sloppeh!

[AxlStream]

You're right. It's Baelsar's Wall Street. And right now, everything going on here is sloppeh!

What have you done... You madman...

[Barraind]

A quick buck isn't the best way to get rich. All you do is slow the rate at which everyone gets rich wich lowers your rate of getting rich even more.

When you move through hundreds or thousands of items a day, that extra couple K (if that) you could possibly maybe make if it sells fast is less good than being sure it's going to sell fast.

I've had to stop AH'ing things that go for less than whatever my days threshold is, because it's more profitable to just vendor them.

I vendored 30 corsages the other day (silly glowy mainhands) because they sell 1 or 2 a month for 10k. Not worth retainer space, ever.


The things that upset me about the AH generally come down to it being godawful. I'll never be satisfied until we get GW2's auction house system (or an upgrade to that) in every game though.