How to Undercut

[DamianFatale]

It seems like a lot of people need a lesson on this.


1. Evaluate the prices.

2. Go 200-500 Gil lower first. Do not just drop it by 10,000 Gil. You do want to make money right?

3. Your thing gets overshadowed by lower prices. No big deal! If everyone priced at lower increments, instead of being desperate, we’d all get similar profits from that item. Unless it becomes more common however. Items demoted to being common will naturally fall in price.

That’s it. It’s simple. Please don’t undercut obnoxiously.

[Youkulm]

Don't tell me how to undercut.

[FallenArisen0990]

What SE needs to do is limit people's ability to price change, once every hour per Retainer.

[Zigabar]

Nah, I want it to sell. I'm generally making profit regardless.

And undercutting wars can be fun. How low will they go before I win? :^)

[Aomine1992]

Don't tell me how to undercut.

Laughed way to hard like I can hear your voice as I was reading XD

[DevonEllwood]

Sometimes I just want to get rid of stuff. Also typing in a bunch of zeros is less annoying than typing in something specific when I have trouble reading numbers sometimes.

[Divinemights]

It seems like a lot of people need a lesson
That’s it. It’s simple. Please don’t undercut obnoxiously.

For god's sake, undercutting happens because it is free market correcting itself. The item you are selling simply does not worth the price you are lising. Deal with it.

[winsock]

That’s it. It’s simple. Please don’t undercut obnoxiously.

It's a competition.
Buy them out and resell, undercut them, or lose to them on the next item sold.

[Sashazor]

I always undercut by 1 gil unless the person selling it has a value like "85391"

Then I just undercut by 100 because nobody has time to type all that.

Edit: That said, I do recall my boyfriend being angry at people selling something for 150-500k that took less than 25k to craft, so he undercut them all MASSIVELY by selling his stuff for 50k. That's a morality thing though, not really a greed thing. LOL

[Skivvy]

What SE needs to do is limit people's ability to price change, once every hour per Retainer.

I would love for the listing fee to apply when you first put the item up, and any time you want to adjust it. Might stop some of the MB price camping people seem to do.

As far as listing - I'll normally undercut by 5 gil, for reasonably priced items. If currently listing are way above current sales, I'll figure something else out. If someone keeps undercutting a slow selling item every day - I'll start dropping massive chunks at a time.

I don't actively try to make gil and I definitely do not find playing the MB fun. I sit on a decent cushion for my needs, and that's good enough for me :3