PSA: Do not undercut people by 50k gil or more

[Oizen]

I've undercut by over a million gil before

[Masekase_Hurricane]

As far as I’m concerned if the item is a free drop then I WILL go as low as the npc selling price because whatever it sells for is profit. If I made the item I will undercut to the value of the mats or until it sells.

I just talked to a GM after I reported a retainer on the market board that undercut me by 50k gil on Kupo Coffer. Undercutting is not only rude but when you undercut by so much you crash the market, and everyone makes 50k gil less thanks to your impatience. Now thanks to that person Kupo Coffer is only 40k. Hopefully that person gets banned. You do NOT troll on the market board unless you want to get reported by everyone else. Learn to match other people's price and wait patiently.



Wrong. If no one undercut it will still be 90k and people will still buy it.

So if so confident that the price is worth 90k then buy a few at 40k and wait for the price to go up.

[Kyssa]

I just talked to a GM after I reported a retainer on the market board that undercut me by 50k gil on Kupo Coffer. Undercutting is not only rude but when you undercut by so much you crash the market, and everyone makes 50k gil less thanks to your impatience. Now thanks to that person Kupo Coffer is only 40k. Hopefully that person gets banned. You do NOT troll on the market board unless you want to get reported by everyone else. Learn to match other people's price and wait patiently.



Wrong. If no one undercut it will still be 90k and people will still buy it.

You seriously bothered a GM with this... and wait, a GM actually responded to you, for this?

Hell, a shit ton of people on my server have been trying to get a GM's attention for months and we've all been met with canned radio silence. If this is the kind of crap that keeps them from actually doing the things that require GM attention, I'll be undercutting by 50 k just in the hopes I see one of these fabled GM's.

I'll be like Oprah with my 50 k discounts... you get 50k off and YOU get 50k off!

[DiaDeem]

[SassyAssassin]

I tend to not undercut too much BUT…If I see your prices updated in a few seconds to minutes from mine, Ill test again and again and if it keeps happening, Ill undercut by an insane amount, have fun earning nothing from your bots ;3

[ZephyrMenodora]

If someone undercuts another person by like 1 gil, I find that petty and buy the normal priced item from someone else.

Sometimes undercutting is needed though. Sassy told me that Pastel Blue was very cheap but on Zalera when I checked a couple months ago there were only 2 on the broker for 200K each. Sometimes when there is no more stock, someone may not know what to charge for something and they could have seen very high prices for other dyes and thought that's what it would be worth. In this situation someone who knows the market better can probably undercut by way more than 50K for that item.

[GoatOfWar]

If someone undercuts another person by like 1 gil, I find that petty and buy the normal priced item from someone else.

Sometimes undercutting is needed though. Sassy told me that Pastel Blue was very cheap but on Zalera when I checked a couple months ago there were only 2 on the broker for 200K each. Sometimes when there is no more stock, someone may not know what to charge for something and they could have seen very high prices for other dyes and thought that's what it would be worth. In this situation someone who knows the market better can probably undercut by way more than 50K for that item.

Why is it petty to want to preserve an item's value?

[ZephyrMenodora]

Why is it petty to want to preserve an item's value?

??? I said I find people that undercut others by 1 gil to be petty. If a bunch of people all have an item for 10,000 gil and then one person puts theirs at 9,999 I'll buy from one of the 10K people. Not sure what that has to do with preserving an item's value.

[GoatOfWar]

??? I said I find people that undercut others by 1 gil to be petty. If a bunch of people all have an item for 10,000 gil and then one person puts theirs at 9,999 I'll buy from one of the 10K people. Not sure what that has to do with preserving an item's value.

Thank you for preserving the item's value i guess.

[Boblawblah]

You seriously bothered a GM with this... and wait, a GM actually responded to you, for this?

I find it useful to check what other threads people make to get a feeling of how to judge what they're saying. This OP has a habit of making controversial threads. A coincidence I'm sure.