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.

[Frizze]

Yeah, if you have the free time you can avoid the board entirely. When you're playing but not busy in an instance you can put up a PF group advertising your crafting skills, and you can shout when youre in town/idyll. Some direct commissions from people who want to avoid the board(or people who want to "know" a crafter who can make things if they need more later) can be a good income. Otherwise, id agree with Chameleon and Aurius. Make the stuff that sells the fastest(no luck selling High Mythrite Cross-pein Hammers? try High Mythrite Ingots instead) and price it at the going rate. If 10+ of something are bought a day then undercutting has to be very consistent to keep you from making some sales.

[LystAP]

There's also stuff other than crafting tools, an example would be 220 ilvl gear. The crafted gear is still the fastest way for someone to gear up their alternative classes, especially if they have more important things to spend their eso tomes on.

[eternalstar01]

As a mid-level crafter, I find that gathered and crafted materials sell for way more than actual assembled items. I had a bunch of random leftover CUL mats since recipes always make three and need one, so I hawked the stuff I didn't need and they flew off the board (and I'm on a "dying" server).

I usually do some MB research on things that sell quickly and for a lot (like around the 500g a piece range) and have my retainer gather it. Accumulate and sell.

If you can bear to part with materia, they are huge sellers.

Also, if you can bear to part with your esos, sell eso-bought craft mats.

[Cleanse]

Try and check the history on items. Some stuff (big items) will sell really slow and undercut wars will happen on them. So it can go from 1 mill to 800k or less in no time.

If you're looking to craft and sell stuff asap, materials are a better thing to sell.

[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.

[FoxyAreku]

If you're selling crafting gear such as high mythrite tools, I find a good way to combat undercutters is to buy and place a grade V materia into it. Just one, and make sure it's a relevant materia that will help the buyer reach the stat cap. Then it won't matter if you're the most expensive as people will probably buy yours anyway, and you can price it a few hundred k higher than the lowest price as well.

You get a little less profit by doing this, but I think it's by far worth it since you don't have to sit at your retainer bell all day in an undercut war.

[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.