Those low prices on the market board...

[VenKitsune]

The thing that annoys me is how drastic the price has dropped for certain crafting matts. Leather, Lumber, Ingots and Nuggets etc.... Pre-5.1 an Aurum Regis nugget (lvl 60 mat) sold for about 5-8k NQ, because they had to be crafted. Now you can desynth them for free from lvl 60 gear without even having a level 60 crafter (i think) the prices have been drastically flutuating between 4k....and 250 gil. Its ridiculous how much people undervalue stuff just because the supply is suddenly increased, especially how it reflects HQ prices despite HQ not being very common at all from desynth. If something is selling for 5k, sell it for 5k, dont just shrug and put it up at 250 gil and crash the market just because you happened to get it from a desynth, and have no use for it yourself.

[Orbus]

The new desynth has definitely dropped prices across the board.
You pick up a lot more crap gear than you realize when doing roulette's, most people don't have desynth leveled or didn't have the right ones leveled so it would just be tossed at your CG for seals, but it's not like there's anything of particularly high value you can buy with company seals, many just leave their seals capped out cause whaddamigonnadowithem.
So now everyone is desynthing everything.
Whatever you get can't be worth much less than the seals, right?

[ValyrianBlood]

but 1 thing for sure is, if you undercut me by 1 gil. it means war, and with the power of the monetarist scum of the Great Ul i will destroy you.

I asked this before and got no answer: What is so wrong with undercutting by 1 gil?? And how do u mean to 'destroy' the undercutter? ?_?

[EnigmaticDodo]

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I'm glad I was able to dump my stash of hundreds of Battlecraft Materia III's for 10k each prior to the change. I personally knew that all of the prices would be effected, but not to this level. I mean, its to be expected when everyone can desynth now, but woo, Im right there with you feeling the pain of the market crash. I feel dumb for leveling desynth personally. It was pretty time consuming and the 'reward' for that, for me anyways, was being able to generate free gil lol

[LalaRu]

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!

That's not that bad.
I'll buy all of them and sell to npc then. They are few Gil but a contribute to cleanness of the board!

Thats the other side of the coin.

Werent you all so happy about making crafting easier and easier?, bon profit!

Oh well, I'm happy, because today's crafting is more fun and less a chore to me.

But yes, some people value their time much less than I do. I just need deal with it.

[Jkap_Goat]

I'm glad I was able to dump my stash of hundreds of Battlecraft Materia III's for 10k each prior to the change. I personally knew that all of the prices would be effected, but not to this level. I mean, its to be expected when everyone can desynth now, but woo, Im right there with you feeling the pain of the market crash. I feel dumb for leveling desynth personally. It was pretty time consuming and the 'reward' for that, for me anyways, was being able to generate free gil lol

I agree with you on this, I feel like it was a waste of time and gil to level Weaver, leatherworker and Goldsmith desynth up.

Now that everyone can desynth, the market is crashed and items that makes gil is the crafts with the most complex items to make that has to be HQ, it's just very rare items like the dark night Pegasus whistle

All those crafting mats you get from desynth, you might as well give them to the doman enclave and get some decent gil

[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.

[Barraind]

Pre-5.1 an Aurum Regis nugget (lvl 60 mat) sold for about 5-8k NQ, because they had to be crafted.

Uh..

I've got bad news for you about that one. AR nuggets are sold by the Vath. Along with a bunch of other nuggets.

it's not like there's anything of particularly high value you can buy with company seals, many just leave their seals capped out cause whaddamigonnadowithem.

Sad thing is that unless you actually use the mats you're desynthing (or just doing it for skillups), theres a LOT of stuff thats still just better to seal and sell the seal mats than try to sell the desynth product. Those years old "heres the stuff you can buy for seals that sell well" guides are still pretty relevant. Scheelite might be less useful now, but if it starts with 'Raziq', its annoying to get and probably sells better than any random nugget, lumber, ingot, or xcraft 2 materia.

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.

And then sometimes you end up with this (current on the left, recent on the right, everything in recent is from 11/9 and 11/10)



I swear people just like burning money sometimes.

[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.

[Moonlite]

I asked this before and got no answer: What is so wrong with undercutting by 1 gil?? And how do u mean to 'destroy' the undercutter? ?_?

By posting for 1 gill less you are saying, "get to the back of the line I am more important". You aren't establishing a new price point. You aren't trying to maximize profits.



Destroy probably means they are willing to go down to a price that makes you wonder why you even put up. I had a few items where someone kept posting for 1 gil less. So i just kept dropping it by 10k. They never sold their stuff and took all of them off MB. Lots of junk on MB is venture stuff anyways. So it was zero investment and just the few seconds to click retainer. Spent more work repricing junk then actually getting it.