Marketboard insanity

[CYoung187]

Sounds like he sold his item. Sometimes selling fast wins, while the guys way above him in price could just keep undercutting each other until their stuff sells for 200k 2 weeks later. Personally i don't see many people buying i90 gear for current prices.

[niwaar]

The game desperately needs a listing fee. Every other MMO that I can think of that has a relatively stable economy has one. XIV desperately needs one. Either that or we need to go back to the wonderful "blind pricing+bid system" we had in FFXI.

The market boards are unstable on high end goods because it costs nothing to continually undercut each other. The cost of Taffeta Cloth on Gilgamesh has dropped significantly because of this over the last few days. People continually undercutting each other by a few thousand until someone gets fed up and undercuts by tens of thousands just to get out of the market.

[Jeykama]

If it's the Taffeta/Light Steel/Mindflayer stuff, people are finally getting their retainers to 50, and the return rate isn't that bad. Which means that market is going to be incredibly unstable for the coming weeks as the supply is going to outstrip the demand at multi-100k prices.

[FJerome]

That picture doesn't actually tell us anything about the situation because it's just the market-listing, not the sales history? Plus you cut out what the item was so we have no general context for if this price is reasonable or not.

For all I know 499k is actually pretty high on your server for . . . whatever this item is . . . and everyone else listed is incredibly over-priced and had no chance of selling.

[PArcher]

On my server, most 3*s are still over a million...and NO ONE is buying them. Have a few 3* crafter friends complaining that they aren't selling, but refuse to lower the price...

If they were 500K-700K, many more would sell. And even then, that may still be a little high, since you have the hidden melding cost to factor in as well (and if you have no intention of melding it...just go farm Coil)

[Namasu]

On my server, most 3*s are still over a million...and NO ONE is buying them. Have a few 3* crafter friends complaining that they aren't selling, but refuse to lower the price...

If they were 500K-700K, many more would sell. And even then, that may still be a little high, since you have the hidden melding cost to factor in as well (and if you have no intention of melding it...just go farm Coil)

I sell 3* full cost or with your mats at rate as cheap as that because I like charging fair price and I get pm-ed by other crafters from our server saying I am "destroying" the 3* market just because they want to keep everything over 1mil to squeeze out gil buyer money. Fun Stuff.

[PandaPause]

I sell 3* full cost or with your mats at rate as cheap as that because I like charging fair price and I get pm-ed by other crafters from our server saying I am "destroying" the 3* market just because they want to keep everything over 1mil to squeeze out gil buyer money. Fun Stuff.

I am so happy you are not on my server.


On a side note I would like to see SE bring back Bazaar's.

[ImDingDing]

On my server, most 3*s are still over a million...and NO ONE is buying them. Have a few 3* crafter friends complaining that they aren't selling, but refuse to lower the price...

If they were 500K-700K, many more would sell. And even then, that may still be a little high, since you have the hidden melding cost to factor in as well (and if you have no intention of melding it...just go farm Coil)

I understand these crafters, on a server with less population, the mats/materia cost are high too. They refuse to lower the price and undercut each other because they haven't made their initial investment back.

[PArcher]

I understand these crafters, on a server with less population, the mats/materia cost are high too. They refuse to lower the price and undercut each other because they haven't made their initial investment back.

Mats aren't even terribly expensive on the market; think the most expensive from a quick browse was ~100K-150K for the myth-mat. And you only need 1 of them...yes, I know, the latex, but last I looked even HQ wasn't as expensive I think.

I sell 3* full cost or with your mats at rate as cheap as that because I like charging fair price and I get pm-ed by other crafters from our server saying I am "destroying" the 3* market just because they want to keep everything over 1mil to squeeze out gil buyer money. Fun Stuff.

Oh, I've been getting quotes from various crafters for making the gear. Haven't bought anything yet, mostly because I don't feel like dealing with the materia RNG right now and for all classes but DRG, I just don't need the slightly better stats a penta-meld brings (I have 6 jobs at i90+, including my i94 DRG main). The only thing I am seriously considering right now is the DRG belt, thanks to SE deciding that it and the body belong in T9...though the mask also gets consideration occasionally.
I will admit I keep hoping some NQ failures make their way on the MB at stupid low prices for my vanity...no luck so far.

And its not that I'm poor (making all my gil off people trying to penta-meld lol), I just won't pay over a certain amount for something like this.

[AiChyan]

Mats aren't even terribly expensive on the market; think the most expensive from a quick browse was ~100K-150K for the myth-mat. And you only need 1 of them...yes, I know, the latex, but last I looked even HQ wasn't as expensive I think.

I'm guessing they bought the mats when they were ultra expensive and don't want to sell them at a loss at all.