Does the community ever have a constructive conversation about RMT?

[UnrealTai]

Rich players don't determine market prices, the consumers do. On a few select servers that might have been the case at one point or another (where the rich people would buy up all the stock and then resell it at drastically higher prices). But over time, and especially now with world visit, that isn't an issue at all.

In the specific case of new items, that is also very, very normal from an economic point of view. When a new iphone is released, it's priced ridiculously high. However, after a some time passes, the price drops and eventually it drops to almost nothing. Same thing with new items in-game. Right away, the supply is very low, so those providing the supply can pretty much charge whatever they want.

However, if you give it a few weeks, those prices come down dramatically.

RMT will exist regardless, no matter the health of the economy. Taxing "rich players" more would do absolutely nothing. In fact, if anything it would increase the amount that people buy gil because the sellers would simply pass off that tax cost onto their products (thus the products would be even HIGHER priced).

Pretty much this.

I contacted an omnicrafter in pf on patch morning to craft me just the left side 450 gear and they quoted a ridiculous amount for it, 25m.
I spoke with my wallet and immediately dropped party and blocked them just incase they were the haggling sales person type, nothing personal towards them. Checked the MB and looking at the mb alone sure, in “that” hour of the day 25 mil was under, because locos had the pieces up for 10 mil each, which didnt sell of course.

Logged in 8 hours later and got the same full left side set off the MB for just 5 mil. So they just lost out on 14 mil profit for over quoting something they damn well knew was not going to be sold for at that price in just a few hours. I wouldve paid 2m per piece, instead they got nothing and I got all of it for just 5.

People gota know their audience.