Undercutting by 1 gil?

[KatenKyokotsu]

Tbh, I really like the marketboard in GW2. It's like a first come first serve basis. The marketboard in ffxiv is really a high lvl pvp game.

[Marcellus_Cassius]

I think the 1 gil undercuts hold back the economy, all it does is favor people with more time to sit there and adjust by 1s, putting off the inevitable drop in price. I don't undercut excessively, but 1g is just stalling the market.

[Tiraelina]

Prices are always dictated by what someone is willing to pay. Simple as that. Supply is unlimited.

Putting something up for vastly cheaper isn't going to make it sell faster if it isn't a high demand item. I'm convinced some of these people are allergic to money when they go heavily under a largely fixed sale history.

/e

TBH a lot of it is SE's fault for shoveling gear onto everyone.

[Felis]

No, the most annoying thing is getting an item, seeing all the prices are 200k, putting yours up for 200k, and coming back 4 hours later to find the prices have dropped more than 90%.

A better question: What is going on in the heads of all these idiots who put stuff on MB for LESS THAN A VENDOR WOULD HAVE PAID THEM!

maybe they think the price in the tool-tip is the current average price in the MB

[geekgirl101]

When people undercut me by 1 or 5 gil yes it irks me, but not as much as someone undercutting me by several hundred gil because I know that eventually mine will sell if I remain patient or I could just bump mine down by 2 or 3 more gil. When it's dramatically dropped that irks me to a level beyond sanity because some cheap idiot couldn't be bothered to check the server prices and just wanted to get rid of their junk and has now crashed the market because everyone else thinks that's what it's worth, until I want to buy it back and suddenly it's 3x more than what I was originally trying to sell it for. :P I've seen items worth several thousand gil dropped down to double figures and sometimes even down to their default value, you know, that stupid estimate that reckons your 1 mil trophy is worth 23 gil. That said provided the market board isn't flooded with low priced items I sometimes buy them cheap and sell them at high value.

[LittleSparrow]

I undercut to a point where traveling to my area is cheaper than paying taxes.

[Ilan]

I mean....seriously? Is there a more annoying thing to do? It doesn't save the buyer any money, it's just some guy going "Give me your gil instead of this other guy". I've been seeing this trend all over the place lately. Does this even work? Seriously, people, you see this? Pick the next seller up on the list just to spite them.

It works because your item stands over the one of the other person and its completly ok to do so.

[Gemina]

Undercutting by such low amounts doesn't really get to me. What does get to me is when people do it without paying attention to the activity of the item they are selling. An example would be something like glamour prisms, sooth black dye, or any item that sales very quickly. When you look up the sale history and see all the entries are the same date, yet some impatient doofus comes around and undercuts it, that is what pisses me off. When demand is high, you raise the price, not lower it.

Undercutting makes sense when demand is lower than supply, and the less someone undercuts, the better. Some people just have no idea how to work the boards.

[LittleSparrow]

The only time it annoys me is when someone undercuts an item by over a mil even though it regularly sells for that high price I put it up for.

[Zipdar]

You guys want a cartel, not a free market.

Board prices are insanely high so I rarely bother looking.

My retainers are full. My inventory is full. Limits - GC seals, poetics, beast tribe coins (tossed stacks to free up space). Throw away my ARR relic weapons? Bardings? I threw away 7 Venoct coins and a week later they brought back yo-kai. Welcome to inventory space hell.

I'm not playing the markets, I'm sharing excess inventory.

Collect a map, get twincoon.
Need HQ loquats, gather 40 NQ just getting my 10.
Junk in PoTD.
Retainers come back with weird stuff.
Gather for GC seals, get double and save someone else the trouble.

Here, take it, enjoy it, I don't need it. If it pays for the teleportation, great. Collectibles, leves, and maps already pay enough gil for my needs.

We are nowhere near the same headspace when it comes to the market board.
I need space, scrips, exp. Gil won't buy that so I have no reason to take gil seriously.