Quote Originally Posted by RazeLandale View Post
Undercutters can only do so much damage. If the demand is high they won't even make a dent in the market because they'll put something up...and then it'll sell right away. Then yours would sell. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put down 3 million on a cosmetic piece that they don't even wear themselves. The people that did, did. And then people lowered the price, not to undercut the last crafter, but to find the price people would actually pay for it.
Hard to recover when it's something they can gather and totally bomb the market with. For instance, rubies dropped to the double digits because somebody came and plopped hundreds of them on the AH for dirt cheap. The price is there to stay, considering how few things they're needed for. You can't buy them out and list for higher, because they just list more. If they don't list more, other people are trying to undercut the "less than a vendor pays" prices for w/e reason.

There was also an issue recently where we had a small group of crafters going 24/7 (same spot, endless crafting, only moving to go to the FC chest), who listed 1 star items for under 1k and such, and they did this for months. MONTHS. There was no recovering from things like HQ crafting gear being sold for 600 gil when there are 10 items listed for that much on AH.