Quote Originally Posted by Nyalia View Post
People undercut for all sorts of reasons, and people do large undercuts for all sorts of reasons. If a product is selling very sparsely at 5m and someone is undercutting you by 1gil every time you undercut them by 1gil, but you have a full time job and only play a couple days a week, you aren't going to ever be able to sell your item at that price. You need the item to come down to a price where multiple people will purchase the item in short order so after the undercutter's product sells, yours sells before they have a chance to re-craft and re-list.
This is my take on it. I don't play all day. And whenever I craft something expensive or get a good item via retainer or drop I usually list it just under the price of the cheapest. But almost always there are sellers watching the market like hawks (you can see them re-list theirs like 3 minutes after I put mine, that sort of stuff). The time I spend in game I'm most certainly not going to spend in from of the market board. So, I'm okay with making half of it, most of the item they aren't, and if they are, cool, the price keeps rolling down. My FFXIV experience is 0% reliant on Gil.