Item Duping???

[Toranja]

Maybe market manipulation... Just buy up all lower costing items and sell for a higher price.

Not enough and not adequate to the situation.

[LordSaviour]

I guess I could be underestimating the power of a Korean Farm Bot

[indira]

its the stuff people are selling way under price then the average is like 2-3 times more so there stupid undercutting is helping out the RMT. also the bot killing stuff can have materia in about 1hr 30min do that 24/7 then it adds up.

[Hanabira]

The biggest question here is why sell a stack full stack of 99 materia?

[Seryne]

The biggest question here is why sell a stack full stack of 99 materia?

Another question would be who would buy a full stack of 99 materia?

[Hanabira]

Another question would be who would buy a full stack of 99 materia?

thats what i meant.. why sell a stack of 99 because no one is going to buy it

[LineageRazor]

Dat fifth overmeld.

[Nahara]

thats what i meant.. why sell a stack of 99 because no one is going to buy it

I guess if someone was SUPER serious about penta-melding something, but why waste all that materia?

[Hiraki]

People like that are the reason why we need the ability to buy singles out of stacks again.

[Sivara]

I have seen this (listing multiple stacks of 99 of items that take time to accumulate via crafting, spiritbonding, or gathering) for a while and I've been swearing up and down to my FC that it is from item duping or botting.

In related news, some bonehead on Sargatanas (not going to name names) listed large stacks (55, 40-something, etc.) of Quickarm III materia for ~2K per item when it was going for 8K consistently. It immediately crashed the price to 2K and under as everyone else followed suit and undercut when they listed their individual pieces and single-digit stacks. I saw the same retainer doing the same thing on another item, though I don't remember which item it was. I really don't know what their motive is to dupe/bot so many items and deliberately crash the price unless they are just trying to move a high volume of goods as quickly as possible, even if it does mean making less gil and screwing up the economy for themselves and everyone else in the long run.