Undercut Hell

[Ren_Taka]

Vendor prices are WAY too low. Currently, you have two options: vendor it for next to nothing (most items < 10 gil) or put it up on the market board. If vendors offered a reasonable price for items, then I think a lot of the undercutting casuals would vendor items rather than deal with the hassle of the market. For example, a housing item is up on the market for generally ~50k. The vendor price is 100 gil. This is too much of a gap and doesn't reflect the rarity of the item. So the people who need money put it up for a fraction of the market price to move it quick. But, what if the vendor price was 5k? I think a lot of people might just vendor rather than deal with the market board and also to have the money in hand. You combine this with the limited space to sell and it puts a lot of pressure for people to make quick sales.

[NyarukoW]

Vendor prices are WAY too low. ....

Whatever the vendor prices, the mark demand will set a price that will in no ways match the vendor price. You see items that can be vendor for 2 gil being sold on the MB for 1 all the time, and even stuff for 10gil to the NPC being sold for 1. If you increase the NPC payout for items, all that does inflate the money supply. What was 10 gil going for 5000, will induce what is was 50K to be 25 mil.

Do what you want. But don't do it then complain that someone else did it to you.

Who is complaining? Certainly this thread was not started by the undercutters and not those who undercut by 1 gil.

Absolutely nothing from the vending machine scenario applies to this game. There isn't anything in the game that resembles that market. Supply and demand is constantly shifting in the game, the vending machine is a stable market.

Vending machine. These people have no understanding what a real market is. Even vending machines follow market rules. The prices of item are set by a person who has to adjust them from time to time and change up the items for sale too. It is very much a give an take, just that things in real life for the sanity of everyone has a more stable pricing. People whine/cheer too much on a weekly basis when gasoline prices moves. Heaven forbid they deal with pricing that changes by the second on a stock market.