How does one start off the market for an item?

[TheCurls]

The best way to create a stable market is to set the final product price at 10% more than the sum of the mats. People don't ever do that, though. You get people that sell super high (been guilty of it) and you get people that get mad at undercutters and crash the market below the mat-sum point, bouncing the market up and down.

[BeautifulNerf]

You get people that sell super high (been guilty of it) and you get people that get mad at undercutters and crash the market below the mat-sum point, bouncing the market up and down.

I got really angry on my server about people massively undercutting clusters. To the point I invested 4mil in just buying all clusters. Too the point I had over 50k clusters. Then I created a true supply and demand 5 retainers total- 1 retainer is selling a stack a piece at 2k quantity, cascading down to 75g each (from 200). Second retainer sells quantities of 500(3), cascading from 200g down too 75g. Third retainer is selling individual stacks of 300(2), cascading from 200g to 75g each. 4th retainer sells individual stacks of 5(3) cascading like previously stated. Then my final retainer is selling 20 individual stacks of 50 each, selling for 50g each. I literally buy everyone else out. and I make a crap ton of gil monopolizing that single cluster.