Quote Originally Posted by SonKevin View Post
Playing the marketboard - Maybe, but without a good supply I can't see how you can play the marketboard without your own injections.
I literally solo-funded my FC's entire large house, permit, walls & paints and such, and some furnishing - some 55 million or so gil in total - from selling vendor gear on the markets. Yes, I have crafting, but I didn't even need to use it to make this huge profit. And it took me only a little under a month. Granted, that was right after expansion release, and I was selling HW vendor stuff to people who didn't yet have HW (or who didn't do their vendor research), so it's not always so easy to get that kind of fortune so quickly...

But the point is that it is doable. Non-crafters just need to look for opportunities. Playing the market is a lot more than just manipulating the market. Playing the market is finding opportunities and making them your gain. Market opportunities appear naturally due to the nature of supply, demand, and disparity of item knowledge.

Just wanted to clear that up.