Please Squeenix, implement blind bids on the markets...

[Orsnoire]

There's too many crafters and there will be more with the increase of Exp coming on the next patch. Too many crafters at 50 = too many items = more ppl will undercut to sell as fast as possible. So, it only will get worse.

The "problem" is limited auction slots.

I'm 50 in two crafts now, and I fill up all 40 retainer slots at least twice per day. If I don't have a gil-producing retainer slot, then that slot is effectively LOSING me 3k (or more) gil, twice per day. I'm not going to keep that slot filled just so that I can make sure the price stays high. If the price drops too low, I simply craft something else. There's ALWAYS something else.

Bottom line: if you want to make considerable gil with your crafting, you need to understand the laws of supply and demand rather than trying to fight against them.

Edit: using some numbers listed above, if I put up an item for 12k, and it doesn't sell for even 48 hours, I've lost at minimum 3k for that auction slot (more likely a whole lot more). Because we're limited with slots, and I am crafting from my wife's gathering, I have to maintain a high volume of sales. I'm a crafter who IS maximizing profits; I just realize that the actual means of production in this game are retainer slots, not the items that are placed in them.

Also:

I like those guys. I buy them out and relist. MMO Markets 101. I'm surprised so many people in this thread apparently never thought of it. But that's ok, more no brainer gil for me ♥

Lord, I love people like you. Folks like you allow me to sell 3-4 of those items in the time it takes you to sell a single one. End profit for me is FAR higher than yours (because I have no costs due to gathering alt), from the same number of retainer slots.