Market has crashed

[Codek]

This is happening because outside of a handful of items, most don't need 99 of whatever very often while the smaller numbers are much more common, and lots of sellers do not realize this. So its either buy 99 of an item at a cost of say 50 per(total 4950 pre-tax), or 5 of an item at 200 per(total 1000 pre-tax), or 1 at 400. Which would you buy if only needed one?

I'm just surprised more people aren't playing the market by simply buying a stack of 99 and posting 20 stacks of 5 at 5x the cost. Sure, it takes up most of your retainers selling power but from what I've seen, the turnover rate is less then a day and the gain is 400% profit.

I would have imagined that that kind of motivation would balance out the market at some point.

[Hawklaser]

I'm just surprised more people aren't playing the market by simply buying a stack of 99 and posting 20 stacks of 5 at 5x the cost. Sure, it takes up most of your retainers buying power but from what I've seen, the turnover rate is less then a day and the gain is 400% profit.

I would have imagined that that kind of motivation would balance out the market at some point.

Problem with doing that is some markets people massively undercut frequently to the point of making it too much of a risk to do so. I have seen some items drop over 50% in price over the course of a day. So until one knows the trends of a market that can backfire easily.