Market board logic - how to loose 100k in 8 hours

[Jojoya]

My favorite is when someone massively undercuts something that actually has expensive or annoying to get mats, or is just annoying to get period, so everyone just loses a ton of money because reasons.

The value you place on your time may not be the value someone else places on theirs. And no one is losing money as long as the item sells for more than what it cost them to get it (which is usually 0).

Not everyone is out to make maximum profits. It's not like gil has much use in this game outside of buying things from other players. If there's nothing you want to buy that requires gil, then it doesn't really matter how much gil you make.

Also somebody on my server has been posting a lot of materia for literal vendor price when the market price is like 20-30k per materia and I have to kinda sit there and be like bro do you just hate making money or what? Maybe it's a weird roundabout giveaway idk lmfao

Why complain? Buy their materia then sell it at what you say is the current market rate. Some people accidentally list at the default price.

Better yet, buy and take it to Mutamix to transmute into more valuable DoH/DoL materia to sell for even more (if you won't need the materia yourself for the new crafted DOH/DOL gear we should be getting in 5.3).

[Gemina]

The value you place on your time may not be the value someone else places on theirs. And no one is losing money as long as the item sells for more than what it cost them to get it (which is usually 0).

Not everyone is out to make maximum profits. It's not like gil has much use in this game outside of buying things from other players. If there's nothing you want to buy that requires gil, then it doesn't really matter how much gil you make.

Time is money too. Starred recipes are time consuming if you process them from scratch and choose not to buy anything from the MB. The cheap prices for these types of items and mats is disposable income for the seller. But it is probably more accurate to say that what they are selling isn't worth the inventory space it would otherwise take up. Omni crafters have to accept these losses all the time, but it only fattens their pockets in the long run.

For players like the person you quoted, they are choosing the wrong item to market, and might be better to just craft for self sufficiency. At least with the Neo Ishgardian gear. The prices set by competitors simply make them not efficient to mass produce. The market is fierce and cutthroat. Some have a little trouble realizing just how much so.