Need help making a decent profit.

[ToasterMan]

I am now a 3 Star Crafter but I still don't know how to use the market board very well. I'm finding it impossible to sell any of the tools I make. I put one up for sale and ten minutes later I find out that 5 different people undercut me. I'm trying to stock pile enough money to be able to buy a house.

Do you guys know what a crafter of my level should be doing to make money on a server like mine?

[Aurius]

My fc mates and I have great luck in pf advertising our wares. Also making mats in high demand yields a ton of money. Look at the sales history of whatever your putting on the MB, if it sells quick and has readily available mats, put some on.

[ChameleonMS]

Being from Gilgamesh, I have experience with a large population server MB. Typically, I make about 350K per day (I am casual player with 2 retainers) selling the following items:
Dragon Skin map 75-100K
20-25 Glamour Prisms 9-12K (there are several prisms which sell for only 2-5K and I complete avoid those markets).

Now, there are several other items I dabble in, such at the 2/3* stuff you are trying. But, I generally follow these rules.
If the sale frequency does meet the following conditions it is just not worth my time to make it.
2/3* Tool/equipment pieces, 2-3 per day.
DoW/DoM, Levelling Gear, 2 per day.
Glamour Prisms, 30+ per day.
Minions, 2-3 per day.
Furniture, I do not bother but I should.
Relic components, raid food and potions; I enter and leave these areas of the market repeatedly.
Another small but interesting source of income from the MB is low end Materia; typically grade 3 battle materias sell in bunches for near 1/2 than Vendor sale value. I buy it up and sell it to a vendor.

[Sakuraluna]

Furniture, I do not bother but I should.

This. Probably the best time to sell housing items would be right after an update that adds new housing, or an event in-game that gives access to housing (like if the reclamation system were reinstated, the day that unused plots come available again). You can make a decent income on even relatively simple or low level stuff due to the rise in demand, definitely more so on higher end items.

[TaleraRistain]

This. Probably the best time to sell housing items would be right after an update that adds new housing, or an event in-game that gives access to housing (like if the reclamation system were reinstated, the day that unused plots come available again). You can make a decent income on even relatively simple or low level stuff due to the rise in demand, definitely more so on higher end items.

Last I saw it's being reinstated with 3.35. So this may be a good time to stockpile.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Since we're on the same server, I'll give you my method. Look through low end gear and stuff you wouldn't necessarily think sells. I made 10 million off selling mostly leveling armor and furniture. You do need to be proactive to combat undercutting, but only engage with it to a reasonable extent. If I put something up for 70k and someone undercuts me by 20-30k, I'll generally wait on them because someone else will take their item first and now I'm back on top with my higher price. Basically, don't always look to the expensive items to sell. You can find a nice fortune through selling mats and low end stuff, especially if you have multiple retainers or alts, and thus, can put up a ton of stuff at once.

[lulunami]

Just imagine what is annoying for other high-roller crafters to craft. Craft those items that crafters need in order to synth the final product. You can make gil on high end stuff, but you can also make gil selling intermediate/supplemental materials. Look through your recipe book, check the markets, and determine what investment and profit-margins that you are comfortable with. Some markets have lots of competition and undercutting but you can find other areas with less competition.

Neglected markets like old Relic items such as Kingcake, Titanium Alloy Mirror, Adamantite Francesca, and Dispelling Arrows can still be quite profitable as well.

Raid food like Steamed Staff are pretty popular and sell for a decent profit, especially since you can make 3 items per synth now.

[Alisi]

Probably the best time to sell housing items would be right after an update that adds new housing ...

This is hit or miss. I've tried to get into it on my server but they don't sell like hotcakes, as you'd assume. You'll look at the prices of stuff with cheap materials and it seems good like easy money but the people (on my server, at least) are very good at driving away competition. I don't honestly think it sells that high. I think almost all the money I've made that way was because I was sick of getting instantly undercut and so undercut them all by a TON (and the people who were undercutting me would buy the stuff.) I don't think I ever sold any furniture to anyone other than the furniture tzars on my server. XD

My way for lazy money making is to do the maps, doing glamour triangles, finding the GC mats that'll turn a profit, or selling NQ components to things other than the current crafting tier (like the eikon ingots, etc. I don't bother with those. Generally crafters don't need them so the demand is less -- it's simply less expensive to make them yourself). I don't bother with HQ parts either (the nuggets and ingots) because the people who are buying them are the crafters who are just being lazy (like myself XD!) and can easily achieve HQ items with NQ mats so they won't pay the extra to get it in HQ. I know. It sounds strange but, in my experience, NQ sells better.

You won't hit the cash cow overnight but you'll be okay. You could also drastically undercut those people if you gathered/made almost everything yourself.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

This is hit or miss. I've tried to get into it on my server but they don't sell like hotcakes, as you'd assume. You'll look at the prices of stuff with cheap materials and it seems good like easy money but the people (on my server, at least) are very good at driving away competition. I don't honestly think it sells that high. I think almost all the money I've made that way was because I was sick of getting instantly undercut and so undercut them all by a TON (and the people who were undercutting me would buy the stuff.) I don't think I ever sold any furniture to anyone other than the furniture tzars on my server. XD

I never found it hit or miss and made around 20 mill last update on furniture. As I knew people needed Summoning Bell, Company Chest, Armoire, Moogle Letterbox and The Unending Journey.

Also the prices of most of these items had doubled on the first day of the update. I think the housing demolition timer restarts this update so in 45 days(need to add maintenance hours to this as the timer doesn't include these days) some of those items will be wanted again.