Market Tip for New Players

[Tommara]

Most of the low level items you can find in the market are also available for sale on NPC merchants or you can make it yourself.

I mention this because I was selling a lot of jewelry on the markets before I was aware of this, at prices much higher than the NPC merchants, and people were buying them like hotcakes. Once I found out, I reduced prices to the NPC price.

Someone pointed out that markets do provide one stop shopping and is much easier to identify upgrades, so perhaps a premium was reasonable. This is true - I find it much easier to go to the market and identify upgrades than go through my armory or recipes. And can often find good deals that are cheaper than I can make it, much less buy the item from an NPC. But I just wanted to mention this so newbies aren't ripped off because of lack of knowledge.

[johnbeck1000]

If you are making a killing on uninformed people then so be it... just my opinion though. I can buy moko grass for 2/ea from the merchant but for whatever reason people on the market like to overcharge (lowest I've ever seen is 10/ea) and I'm never buying it from them but I'm sure someone will. I sell stuff at reasonable prices and I've sold a lot of gear.

[nekochen]

If you are making a killing on uninformed people then so be it... just my opinion though. I can buy moko grass for 2/ea from the merchant but for whatever reason people on the market like to overcharge (lowest I've ever seen is 10/ea) and I'm never buying it from them but I'm sure someone will. I sell stuff at reasonable prices and I've sold a lot of gear.

Sometimes you're out to buy a very small amount of specific material, the total of it doesn't come close to a 400-500gil teleport... or sometimes your home point is set somewhere you needed to be and not in a city, double trip of airship would just cost as much as buying it off market board for that price... without having the waste time on the traveling.

[TheTen]

I woud like to add to this:
If you can't find a crafting material or a piece of gear on one NPC vendor, that does not necessarily mean they aren't sold by NPCs at all. For equipment, check NPCs out in the sanctuaries in whatever area is appropriate to your level. For mats, check the NPC vendors at the different crafting guilds, they have different selections.

[Lemon8or]

And use wiki guide so you don't have to run around checking all the guilds' vendors.

[Naberrie]

And use wiki guide so you don't have to run around checking all the guilds' vendors.

I found they're still not 100% accurate. Some still have 1.0 info mixed in. Some have wrong locations or NPCs. They're still a WIP.

For the record, Crow Feathers are easily farmed at low level BTN just outside Gridania.

[johnbeck1000]

another tip... not all vendors are in the market, some are hiding and hard to find like the fish monger

[duceTRE]

another tip... not all vendors are in the market, some are hiding and hard to find like the fish monger

I don't know why, but that made me laugh.

[johnbeck1000]

I don't know why, but that made me laugh.

I'm good for a laugh or two...

[Medura]

item sold from crafter guild x for 2g, but im in another city so i check market, find it for 10g. My dilemma: teleport to the other city for 300g both ways (600g), or buy for 10 each?