What is your ACTUAL reasoning for undercutting?

[XiXiQ]

Undercutting by a smallish amount or price matching is normal behaviour. I often see some strange people crashing the price of an item for no good reason which leave me scratching my head. Stuff for sale for 50k, some dingbat comes along and decides on 20k, people start piling under that, then another dingbat comes along and it's 5k... people start piling on under that. When I see dumb crap, I just pull the item. I can wait.


The other thing that grinds my wheels is people putting stuff on the MB for the same, or less they would get if they just vendored it. why on earth put someonething on the MB for 1 gil? sheesh. Why even bother with the MB if you can get the same price immediately?

[LalaRu]

...why on earth put something on the MB for 1 gil?...

This is one of the FFXIV mysteries that never will be solved.

[Gula]

Undercutting by a smallish amount or price matching is normal behaviour. I often see some strange people crashing the price of an item for no good reason which leave me scratching my head. Stuff for sale for 50k, some dingbat comes along and decides on 20k, people start piling under that, then another dingbat comes along and it's 5k... people start piling on under that. When I see dumb crap, I just pull the item. I can wait.


The other thing that grinds my wheels is people putting stuff on the MB for the same, or less they would get if they just vendored it. why on earth put someonething on the MB for 1 gil? sheesh. Why even bother with the MB if you can get the same price immediately?

Generosity.

[LaylaTsarra]

The other thing that grinds my wheels is people putting stuff on the MB for the same, or less they would get if they just vendored it.

You see this a lot with materia. I just simply buy it all up and either relist it or sell it to my local vendor in my home.

[Aylis]

You see this a lot with materia. I just simply buy it all up and either relist it or sell it to my local vendor in my home.

Am guilty of doing this too from time to time, haha. I'll buy up a lot of cheap materia and go play the Central Thanalan gobbo RNG game to try for a crafter or gatherer materia type to sell.

[XiXiQ]

You see this a lot with materia. I just simply buy it all up and either relist it or sell it to my local vendor in my home.

Yes, I have done that. Some things have quite a high vendor price yet people list on the MB for a fraction of it. I assume most just aren't paying attention.

[kidalutz]

Yes, I have done that. Some things have quite a high vendor price yet people list on the MB for a fraction of it. I assume most just aren't paying attention.

Its because thats what gil sellers do.