Overflowing stupidity

[Brises]

The problem with the crafting market is there is no true overhead. In real life, manufacturing businesses have huge costs to produce their products, then they price their products to be competitive with other manufacturers while maintaining at least some profit margin. And a 5% profit over cost is usually doing pretty well. But no smart business is going to price their products at a loss, so undercutting is used in limitation.

In this game, if a person chooses to level several gathering/crafting classes, they can make anything for practically no cost to them. So they can take an item that would normally be priced at $2000 gil and sell it for $25, because it didn't even cost them that much to make. That's what I see as being the problem.

BTW, there can be no blind market, because everyone has access to the marked board to make purchases, and then people can see what others are pricing. It may be a little more work than having the prices right in your retainer, but determined sellers will do it.