Extreme Undercutting - Should it be a violation?

[Altena]

Did you happen to notice he REPORTED HIMSELF?
I think that should be the staple of this topic. I laughed so dang hard man. XDDDD

That's a big part of the reason I had to read it 4 times.

[Solica]

No it shouldnt be bannable. I mean, ive been playing world of warcraft since end of vanilla. No one ever got banned for extreme undercutting. If people, for example, were selling an item for 10000 gold range price, and another person came along and sold that item for 1000gold, people would just rush to buy it and resell it for original price. So people that undercut are just silly, not malicious. Im sure this happens in FFXIV too. I, too, have bought items that were extremely undercut and resold em for full price, making profit out of nowhere.

[LunaFaye]

You seem to have some serious psychological problems. Not even being funny.
Get help.
P.s.: anyone crying about undercutting needs to get a lofe. Just wow.

Says the guy that first complained about in game fates, then the queue time of dungeons, because you wanted to play that big bad dps. What makes you think, that your complaint or starting topics about non sense, is more important or not being some kind of crying, in comparison to this one? Case closed.

[Paladinleeds]

Says the guy that first complained about in game fates, then the queue time of dungeons, because you wanted to play that big bad dps. What makes you think, that your complaint or starting topics about non sense, is more important or not being some kind of crying, in comparison to this one? Case closed.

While he is right that I do need therapy (which I am in the process of receiving), a lot of this stems from my way of thinking (and when you've had that thinking process for 15 years straight, it isn't as simple as just changing it). I treat rules in a very black and white way, and it's either "I broke the rules" or "I haven't broke the rules". Funnily enough though, when I started this thread, I was on the waiting list for therapy but hadn't received any.

EDIT: As a follow-up to these unhelpful thinking styles, this lists them all. I wonder how many of these apply to how I felt regarding this situation...

[Klonoa7]

I think its a free market and if Random Player # 4907 wants to sell the same fish as you for 1/10th the price, he has every right to do so. Is it stupid? Yep. Is it annoying? Yep. Is there anything likely to be done about it? Nope!

And no, I don't think extreme undercutting should get someone banned. What you consider 'extreme' might not be a big deal to them, and banning someone for posting an auction is just.. well its as dumb as the undercutting itself.

Not to mention It's supposed to be a "Free market" Once you start banning people just because you don't like their prices and start forcing uniform prices you turn into communist scum.

[Charlayy]

I undercut by one gil every damn time and I'll keep doing it. Happens to me plenty so I do it in return.

Ill do 100k and more if i get undercutted. This stuff is super easy to make and i just dont care

[Charlayy]

You seem to have some serious psychological problems. Not even being funny.
Get help.
P.s.: anyone crying about undercutting needs to get a lofe. Just wow.

Says the guy who was crying about dungeons times and what not. You should follow your own advice and get a "lofe" as well

[Charlayy]

why don't you just buy items then sell them at a higher price. problem fixed. When I sell items look at the history and sell them around price that most of them sold at.

That doesnt work all the time. There are players who do absolutely nothing but crafting and will put up another just as it sells

[Sakei]

If anyone has a problem with undercutting, they can buy the stuff themselves and sell it.

[DarkDedede]

It would probably actually lower the supply and raise prices, especially as people grow increasingly frustrated with the seller-side of things and stop participating. Undercutting is essentially the vehicle through which competition lowers prices, so if you take that away, don't expect prices to go down.

Not necessarily. On occasion, even if there may only be one seller, there will be situations where the price is just too high. If the that solitary seller wants their items to sell, they really have two choices. Either wait it out, on the off chance that someone will be willing to spend that high a price, or lower the price to attract more potential buyers.

From personal experience, if the difference between making a sale monthly or weekly is a 25% price drop, and there is still enough profit to merit the investment, I'm more than willing to lower my own prices (with or without competition being present).