A friendly PSA: Always check the vendor selling price before listing your own on MB

[ElazulHP]

Some people do it just because they'd rather players use them. I mean, you barely need money in this game as it is, some people just don't care so much.

Pretty much this. I put up about 60 orchestration rolls for 1 gil on the MB thinking I was being nice and providing orchestration rolls for those that didn't wanna Eureka. Instead 1 person bought them all and probably vendored them for 150 gil each. Pretty sad considering its only 9k in profit doing this. I can make that much with a single hit on a gathering node.

[KageTokage]

It's kind of funny to see people selling the dyes used in the week's fashion check for 5K+ even if they're available from the dyemongers in major cities.

[miraidensetsu]

Considering the shear number of people I see listing items for exactly the vendor price, I think it might be the opposite; people DO check the 'fine print', but they're totally misunderstanding what it means. I'm pretty well convinced at this point that some people either see the vendor price and think that's some sort of average of what the item goes for on the MB, or don't understand how to go about vendoring an item.

That is even worse lack of attention. The default price are the vendor price. To me that means that the person who's selling at MB don't even bothered to change the price. That makes me wonder why that person don't just sell it to vendor NPC, since it's faster gil than selling it at vendor price - tax.

[PretzJG]

Shhhhushh!!! You'll kill my Copper Ore sales on MB.

[Kewitt]

I almost think items on the market board the sell for less then npc price should be auto sold after exiting retainer for npc value.

[Vahlnir]

It's kinda funny how people sell certain things for vendor price, but end up losing a bit of gil because of the fees. Never really understood the point of that. Why not just vendor things if they aren't worth more than their...well, worth?

[CainCrimson]

Considering the shear number of people I see listing items for exactly the vendor price, I think it might be the opposite; people DO check the 'fine print', but they're totally misunderstanding what it means. I'm pretty well convinced at this point that some people either see the vendor price and think that's some sort of average of what the item goes for on the MB, or don't understand how to go about vendoring an item.

...*immediately stops making this mistake*

thank you.

[Anjalele]

so how does one sell to the market board for the full price? For some reason they only let you sell for the minimum price instead of the full price. Which vendor do i even go to? they won't sell for the bigger price, they always go for the lowest price...

[Felis]

Considering the shear number of people I see listing items for exactly the vendor price, I think it might be the opposite; people DO check the 'fine print', but they're totally misunderstanding what it means. I'm pretty well convinced at this point that some people either see the vendor price and think that's some sort of average of what the item goes for on the MB, or don't understand how to go about vendoring an item.

The vendor price is the default price. Those people still don't read the fine print, but just click on OK without changing anything on the price.

[NefarioCall]

I have so many countless millions of gil that I'll never have anything to spend it on because this game is vertical and not horizontal like FFXI was.
So I usually put low value stuff up for 1 gil because I just don't care anymore.