Those low prices on the market board...

[Resolute]

Only two things on the MB that kill braincells for me....

1 - Undercutting by asinine amounts. Example: An item that has been going for 100k+ for months, some chucklehead posts several for 10k.

2 - People posting items for below VENDOR sell price. That item that you can sell to the vendor for 49 gil, posted on the MB for 30 gil... WHYYYY?! Vendor that thing, bruh!

Y U HAET MUNNIES?!

I think this every time I see either of these things. Why do people undercut so much? Do they not want to make money? Do they not care about making a good chunk of change and just want to get rid of the item as fast as possible?

Honestly, I undercut all the time, but its by like 1-5 gil, just because I know if someone comes along looking for that item, they are going to buy the cheapest one by default, even if its 1 gil less than the next one. But I hate it when I go to my retainer a day later and go to adjust the price of my items, only to see that I am not going to make less than half what I could have made the day before if I want to competitively price my item again. And then of course there is, like you said, the times where now the item is selling for less than the vendor price. I either just leave the price of mine alone or go vendor mine in that situation.

I don't really understand the psychology of why people do these things.

[Bright-Flower]

I think this every time I see either of these things. Why do people undercut so much? Do they not want to make money? Do they not care about making a good chunk of change and just want to get rid of the item as fast as possible?

Honestly, I undercut all the time, but its by like 1-5 gil, just because I know if someone comes along looking for that item, they are going to buy the cheapest one by default, even if its 1 gil less than the next one. But I hate it when I go to my retainer a day later and go to adjust the price of my items, only to see that I am not going to make less than half what I could have made the day before if I want to competitively price my item again. And then of course there is, like you said, the times where now the item is selling for less than the vendor price. I either just leave the price of mine alone or go vendor mine in that situation.

I don't really understand the psychology of why people do these things.

Could be a few things. Maybe they want money fast and figure that a substnatial undercut will get them the money faster.

Sometimes, like with pets from a new dungeon, things are put up at absurd prices and then start falling quickly as more and more people get into the new content and more supply floods the market.

Or in one exmaple, I get a Ceto's claw from Pyros (I think that was the item name?) that people were trying to sell for 40 mil. When I looked at the item's transaction log, the highest rescent purchase was 20 mil. I decided the other person's 40 mil wasn't realistic and put mine up for 20.