Quote Originally Posted by Shioban View Post
No, you're missing the point.

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The retainer with the lowest price, will always appear first, even if that's by 1G.

THAT'S the reason undercutting exists, taxes play no part in it.

Actually I think you're missing their point.

You're assuming there that the buyer is either brainless or ignorant or unable to read. Being at the top of the list does not automatically equate to the best price. Unless the buyer is in the city that the selling retainer is stationed in, the buyer has to pay a 5% international buying tax.

In your image example there, if the buyer is in Limsa (a very popular purchasing location due to the close aetheryte proximity to the market, I believe the closest in the game, all others require zoning at least once to get to their markets too) any of those 50k items will actually cost 52.5k, unless they travel to the other city. As such, you don't have to just be cheaper than the other places on the list, you have to be cheaper by 5% of the international sellers too, just as the person you were quoting said. If you put that item up for sale in Limsa for 52k you'd still be 500 gil cheaper than buying internationally if the buyer is in Limsa too.