When someone tries to ruin the Market board...

[TwistedTea]

It's called Capitalism. If I can make a thing cheap and sell it for a high price and still undercut everyone in the same market I will, and do. My average price is usually 5k gil. I make millions with little effort, and no need for bots, I just gather my own materials.

Here again, we have a demonstration of people not understanding Opportunity Cost; time is the ultimate cost even if you gather everything yourself. The time that you spent gathering stuff yourself could have been used to do something more profitable.

To the OP, diversify the products you sell and try to sell across the DC. Undercutting doesn't matter as much when you sell diverse products across the DC.

[kaynide]

Here again, we have a demonstration of people not understanding Opportunity Cost; time is the ultimate cost even if you gather everything yourself. The time that you spent gathering stuff yourself could have been used to do something more profitable.

To the OP, diversify the products you sell and try to sell across the DC. Undercutting doesn't matter as much when you sell diverse products across the DC.

Depending on the item, self gathering can absolutely be the way to go, especially if your doing bleeding-edge content (like treasure maps).

Once you are at a node, the actual harvesting of mats is negligible. In my case if I want to self craft, I will always farm enough for 2-5 items with intent to sell the other 1-4.

If you are so worried about opportunity costs, you should never have leveled crafting or gathering in the first place since you would be better rewarded just farming and selling bleeding edge crafting mats, or flipping the market.

Point being, if straight gil is the goal, crafting is probably about the dumbest thing you could be doing.

[TwistedTea]

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Point being, if straight gil is the goal, crafting is probably about the dumbest thing you could be doing.

I retired from crafting for the MB at the start of SHB. Gil is no longer my main goal as I've already exceeded gil cap. Most of the gil I make now is directly from the system (green gil)

Before I leveled my crafters/gatherers, I used to flip stuff on the MB. But prior to SHB changes crafting/gatherers was a consistent way to make gil. But with the 'accessibility' changes to crafting/gathering and the huge influx of crafters/gatherers that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

And whether it's crafting/gathering, flipping,treasure maps, it's not like these things are mutually exclusive ways of making gil.

But I stand by the statement, that time is the ultimate cost.

Even in those 5-10 mins you went to gather, I could have just bought the mats from the MB and crafted several items and sold those.