Quote Originally Posted by DBthaONE View Post
1. Undercutting is a word that is being applied in a bad way. Undercutting is what happens when there's competition. If all sellers explicitly or implicitly agreed upon a common price this would price fixing. That is bad.
This is not a real economy. NPC prices do not auto-adjust for the value of gil, and as a result, prices need to stabilize at a certain point. They're just in a mad race to the bottom. Currently, all trade goods are completely worthless with very few exceptions. Two-star gear goes for peanuts these days. Food is pretty much a dead market since it persists through death now. It's impossible to use the market to make any money, in relation to NPC prices.

I would agree with you if NPCs sold nothing, though. If FC housing was free, if all items had to be gathered, crafted or found as drops and there were no vendors in the game, then I would agree with you. But because NPC prices do not scale down, the market has become pointless. There needs to be some way of forcibly ensuring market stability and listing fees would go a long way to combat this rampant devaluation.