Extreme Market Board Undercutting is a Problem. Who ultimately benefits from this?

[MomomiMomi]

You know you're just losing money that way, right? Unless you only undercut by 1. Lowering a price drastically doesn't actually speed up sales. It's just like real life. When people want to buy something, they already have the money for it. If it isn't selling it's because there is no demand, not because it's too expensive.

If you do undercut drastically and get resellers buying your items instead, then you're creating a market bubble that won't last, and you just murder your own market for a long time and lose even more money.

All of the people with warped views on how markets work end up ruining it for everyone and themselves for the sake of being impatient and trying to fart out as many sales as they can instead of making real money.

You're completely wrong on that. As others have stated, just because you have the money to purchase something doesn't mean you're willing to buy.

Want some real life examples? I never, ever buy video games at full price. I wait for them to go on sale. And even if a sale isn't good enough, I still won't bite. I'll wait until they reach what I consider them to be worth.

Or grocery shopping. A normal price for something might be 89 cents. I won't buy and will even do without it at that price. Even when it reaches 59 cents, I might buy a few, but not many. Once they reach my preferred price, 49 cents, that's when I buy a month's supply.

In-game, if something is too expensive, I'll either do without it, or I'll obtain it myself. For example, if I'm gearing up one of my jobs, and it would cost me 200k to purchase a set of gear, I'd rather just craft it myself. I can afford 200k easily. I have more than 1000x that much. But I'm not going to pay it.

Also, "too expensive" is a factor of demand. "Demand" is not only wanting something, but having the money and being willing to pay for it.