Is it against the TOS to repost irems on the MB?

[K3KW4RCHILD]

I'm curious to know if any game has a policy of punishing smart buyers and sellers. However, the real problem lay in the dopes who don't check the purchase history and notice that they are being manipulated. Then the even bigger dopes who buy it anyway and make it worse for the rest of us. But, such is a free market life.

[InkstainedGwyn]

I'm curious to know if any game has a policy of punishing smart buyers and sellers. However, the real problem lay in the dopes who don't check the purchase history and notice that they are being manipulated. Then the even bigger dopes who buy it anyway and make it worse for the rest of us. But, such is a free market life.

I've honestly found that there's a lot of folks - more than I've met in other MMOs, it feels like - here that haven't ever played another online game before. That's not a bad thing, I'm more than happy to see the field expanding. Add that to SE's usual practice of going out of their way to change things to match the players' whims & needs/protect them, though, and you frequently get a lot of questions like this where folks mistake something that's disadvantageous/inconvenient for something "wrong." Heck, I think this is the first game I ever played where I could actually buy everything that's currently on the MB but not placed there by Gil sellers/money transfer mules.

It is always funny, though, to see someone go off in high dudgeon about some "absolutely idiotic design flaw" and it's like... game queues or rng or crafting and you just have to say... this is your first MMO, isn't it, bud?

[Colino]

I've honestly found that there's a lot of folks - more than I've met in other MMOs, it feels like - here that haven't ever played another online game before.

It probably is quite a large number due to the Final Fantasy brand, which with one exception has always focused on single-player (or at least not MMO) games. For a lot of people playing just due to the brand it would be their first MMO (or at least first in this style).

The OP reminded me of an incident a read where a player threatened to report another because they bought an item off the MB which had been mis-priced.

[Jojoya]

I'm curious to know if any game has a policy of punishing smart buyers and sellers. However, the real problem lay in the dopes who don't check the purchase history and notice that they are being manipulated. Then the even bigger dopes who buy it anyway and make it worse for the rest of us. But, such is a free market life.

Not everyone is aware that market history is available for viewing. It also only goes back a certain number of purchases so there might not be enough to see the price fluctuation depending on the item and the quantity people usually list it in.

The OP reminded me of an incident a read where a player threatened to report another because they bought an item off the MB which had been mis-priced.

That's the awkward thing about having the MB listings by retainer name. In WoW if I saw something clearly mispriced I could mail the seller extra gold to make up the difference between fair market value and what I paid, or even the item itself back if I had found it while listing a similar item and didn't actually want it.

Can't do that here so while I appreciate the bargain, I'd feel better if I could have paid the seller something more reasonable.

But there's no wrong doing involved to be reported (short of someone using a bot). People are free to buy what they want to relist for profit, or sell what they want at any price. If they're careless about the price they list an item for but don't catch it before it's sold, it's a lesson for them to be more careful in the future.