Scrap the marketplace system please

[Tyrfina]

i always wonder if theirs people doing my strategy too, if you just troll the mb hit me up. we could monopolize lol

>.< ...

Not gonna lie... I hate you more than just a little bit.

[Killabye]

on exodus like last week, ^^ i do the same thing, on the board all shards were over 120, at like midnight a guy comes and dumps in succession on each 200x27 200x27 400x27 400x27 800x27 800x27 1000x27. i got all of em but the1000 stacks, was like half a mil in like 5 min, woulda been a million if i would have thought to wait and watch longer buti didnt. underbid! dont let anyone else get a sale, underbid everything!

[RiverTams]

Ffxi had the worst market place and it could EASILY be more cutthroat and manipulated by rmt.

Seriously, ffxi is an old game and people should stop trying to take things from it into XIV. Theres tons of other market place ideas. Like bidding and instant selling would be an amazing addition to the system we already have now.

And by the way, you dont need to always 'adjust' (undercut more!) prices. You can just wait for your items to be sold.

[RiverTams]

The system as stands now only affects people who want to sell fast. Seriously, the MB is a fantastic tool and if all youre doing is adjusting prices and undercutting more to sell your stuff... Youre doing it wrong.

[Killabye]

another thing i like to do is decently big moving products. theyre great cause just buying some creates a bidding war. say you go and see something and its selling higher than expected. go buy 3-4. oh wow, one guy bought 4, obviously everyone else wants six! wait till they under bid then boom, use both retainers and underbid them. nobodies buying that shit lol theres no real demand beyond the usual but now theyve underbid and you can underbid them. give it an hour, take a loss on one or two. next time they underbid pull out and buy their product.sell it tommorow for a decent gain after the market stabilizes. they wont craft more, its selling for too cheap. let the market regain then make your money

[FriendlyUncle]

It's much easier to get sales if you sell smart. Too many people put up items in huge quantities. If its a fairly common and unused item, sell in small sets. Armorsmith, i generally don't need 50 HQ Aldgoat leather. I need 2-5 at any given time. Iron rivets HQ are up on my server for 1500 per item but in large stacks. 10-20. I put mine up for 2500 in sets of 1 or 2. All were sold over night. People don't want to buy mass quantities all the time, look at the items use, commonly sold amounts before sticking anything up there. Obviously there are exceptions like Ores and such.

If someone under cuts me by alot, and I've seen this quite often and at stupid prices at that. Items below NPC value. Buy that crap up if there isn't a massive amount, resell it. Even if there is a massive amount of items for sale lower than you. Buy the cheapest ones, less competition, adjust how large of stacks you are selling. Make it appealing to what the crafters need number wise.

And if all else fails. Wait. Patience pays off more often than not, it can be extremely frustrating. I had sat on items for weeks at a time before they sold but they always sold and often without touching my initial price. The market is a game of patience, people who lack that will lose money and be taken advantage of.

[Sessurea]

4 retainers. 80 DIFFERENT items. You get sales then.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

4 retainers. 80 DIFFERENT items. You get sales then.

use unit grouping/bulk pricing and you still get sales.

[Valkyrie_Faleva]

names should be blanked OR who ever places the item first with the same price should have the item on top.

You have 2 people selling an item for the same price, but the other person is near the begining of the alphabet, I don't know about you, but if it was me buying it, I would choose the first person on my list.

[NoDRG]

I can't comprehend how people can defend the current system we have in place.
It may be fine the way it is, yes. But ultimately it really is terrible. The rampant undercutting is a serious problem.
Saying stop undercutting the undercutters really is not a great solution. I make gil ok the way it is, but I would prefer
a FFXI kind of AH system. Too much information is a bad thing and that is what we have now.