Quote Originally Posted by Gillionaire View Post
Those generalists aren't too bad to deal with, you just have to specialize in one market and push them out.. Give them enough trouble (i.e. undercut them every chance you get so THEY have to keep an eye on your market even closer on top of what they ALREADY do... They'll eventually back off after finding it to be not worth their trouble.. It's the 2 specialists competing in same market scenario that gives the worst price wars, often going below the raw material costs.. because there's no quick alternative.
I did that for weeks against one of them and it honestly started making me a bit mental. We were undercutting each other relentlessly multiple times an hour. And I couldnt make him give in. I thought, like you said, that eventually he'd decide I wasn't worth pulling his retainers off the market for but I was wrong. Eventually I gave up and priced mine 1k above him and just settled for sloppy seconds. Wasn't worth losing my sanity over. I can still make 5m in profit a week without the headache. The other specialists like me seem more reasonable. Yeah they undercut me but it's daily instead of 3 times an hour. Some are even content price matching with me.