Undercutting by 1 gil?

[Dzian]

Nope. I have checked the sale histories and items consistently sold at a high price before someone decided to tank the market. When enough people undercut this new price, it's not worth buying them out. Regardless, the whole point is to let the market recover. It benefits all crafters to undercut by very low amounts lest you make significantly less. What usually prompts enormous undercuts is impatience or someone arbitrarily deciding it "isn't fair" to sell things at such and such a price.

If it sells consistently then fair enough, I might only go a few gil under or even slightly higher if my retianers are in a lower tax area..

If things don't move that fast though I will often drop prices a hell of a lot. There was a fish I sold 6 of in 2 days towards the end of heavensward for 250k each. and some had guy flipping at me cos the sales history was like 1.5 million each before that point and I shouldn't have crashed the value
but before that they were only selling like 1 a month even though 3 were listed.... I sold 6 in 2 days...

The real problem I have with undercutters is people who don't understand quantities.. If you're selling stacks of 10 ingots at 10k each and I put a stack of 50 of them up at 9k each you really don't need to undercut that and put your 10 ingots up at 8k each....
Even at 10k they will likely sell faster than mine simply because you're selling smaller stacks....

[Fredco191]

I always undercut by five.

[MyaValentine]

you and the people who don't undercut by 1 gil are the problem with the MB, so you are annoyed that you get undercutted by 1 gil....so? would be worst if it was 10k, 100k, 1kk there's absolutely no point on undercutting by any larger amount unless you are massive jerk who enjoys screwing over other players (opportunities or climb to end game crafting) it makes the market board bearable and not get a surprice price drop by the next morning lower than what it either initial costed the mats or just a overall loss. 1k 100kk makes nodifferent the effect is the same to be at the top of the list to sell the item, 99% of the time the item that gets sold is the first one since it's the cheaper, the market resembles more a auction house who the best price wins. cutting 1 gil not only gives you more money also prevents crashing the price beyond redemption. get your stuff together jimmy.

[Alestorm]

I'm having flashbacks to WoW and people being undercut by a single copper. Which is more annoying since money in wow is broken up by copper, silver and gold whereas we only have Gil here.

[Skivvy]

They should add a listing fee - would help cut down on people who camp their items and constantly adjust the pricing.

[Kahnom]

If item price is less than 50k,I undercut by 1 gil.
If -----------------between 50k - 1 M,then 10 gill.
If -------------------- 1 M or more,then 100 gill.
Also,I'll avoid putting my retainer as the same city as the lowest price.

The rest is up to buyer.

[Jib]

Undercutting by 1 or 10gil is actually the good way to do it. Doing this makes the price of that item to maintain more or less the same. What is annoying is when you have a difficult/rare item that every gatherer is respecting and keeping the price as it is and then one comes and undercuts it by 2/3 driving the other sellers starting to undercut by that price.
All depends if you look at it as a consumer or as a seller. As a consumer that is great, as a seller that is annoying.

Undercut will always happen, everywhere all the time...

[Astral145]

I like to undercut by 2 gil... xD

[Lelila38]

I mean....seriously? Is there a more annoying thing to do?

Undercutting by half?

Seriously I don't get those people who just put stuff up for half the price or even lower than you could sell at npc.
If you wanna be the lowest price on mb lower it by as less as possible.
Personally, if there aren't 20+ posts of a price I just match the lowest, if there are a lot, I do undercut by 1-5.