Idea against Undercutting at the Marketboard (The next.. )

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The first two you listed are the same reason worded differently.

I agree that the seller picks the price. However, undercutting for 1 gil, which I'm assuming is what most complaints are about, serves no purpose other than putting you item at the top of the list. It's a flaw in the design of MMO market boards because it encourages people that market board camp and just continue refreshing their items to be the top. They may as well just give the retainer an option to repost your wares down to a fixed minimum value. I mean that is effectively what MB campers are doing.

Undercutting is fine if to drives prices toward equilibrium, but when people are undercutting by 1 gil it's doing this in the slowest most tedious way possible.

Being top-paged or at least mid-paged is the idea behind a lot of my undercuts. Most people only scroll down to look for HQ items. If you are selling bulk low to mid quality items on a consistent basis on the market board, you need to do this or watch your inventory go stagnant.

Personally, I think undercutting by 1 gil is respectful to your competitor and whatever integrity this simplistic market has. Just as Sibyll says, it serves to slowly degenerate the value of the given product. However, because of the taboo associated with 1 gil undercutting I have chose to undercut in increments of 25, 50, and 75 gils. It's not because I'm trying to reflect some sort of moral integrity, it's because I want to sell my stuff.