market failure

[Zourin]

FF markets have always been an exercise in anarchy. All you can do is monitor trends, moderate and diversify your sales (don't flood a single market), and regularly adjust pricing for current trends. If the market takes a hard downturn, either coast it in case it comes up later or pull off the market (for gear, soulbind and convert if possible)

The current 'trend' across all realms are HQ two star i70 components (eg, Darksteel Ingot, Rose Gold ingot, etc). Only a small number of people are able to produce HQ with any reliability, so the lazy and 'rich' have begun to buy up the tickets to master crafting.

The big boom is in gathering and crafting materia as stores are being soaked into gear for the unspoiled nodes and master crafting. Even lower-end materia is being bought up to squeeze every bit of potential out of existing gear.