What is your ACTUAL reasoning for undercutting?

[ern815]

Mainly to clear my inventory space to be honest. Way too much stuff to clear.

[Gula]

Mainly to clear my inventory space to be honest. Way too much stuff to clear.

If you dont have a ton of retainers, I could see this being a major factor. Imagine being an omni crafter/gatherer and you've got the 99 different kinds of meats for CUL recipes, and endless logs/lumber from BTN/CRP... but only 2 retainers and a chocobo saddle.

Really gotta clean house sometimes.

[LeonTrifang]

Fast money, and giving people what they want for cheaper then everyone else, therefore making them super happy. Making me happy, and more rich.

[Hazama999]

My actual reason? To get the item to sell.

I don't play the "market game" in FFXIV. I simply have a random assortment of crap in my bag that I wanna get rid of, and if I can get paid for it, all the better.

[Genz]

Too many items
Gils being essentially useless
No tax for setting an item to auction

[Rockazoid]

I personally assess it's worth. If someone say, is selling 99 cokes at 500 each. I'll sell 10 at 600 each. That way, they're deal is actually better. But someone who only wants 10 will opt to spend 6k on mine.
Personally it doesn't bother me. I'm not some mega Omni Crafter king.

And I doubt if I'll ever be good. I just want gil to make my Auri glams as cute as possible. Because reasons.

[Rockazoid]

Nine hundred million times this.

People undercutting massively out of spite just end up hurting their own margins. I'll undercut by 1 Gil every day for 2-3 months if necessary until it gets bought, and if they try to remove/put the price back up to where everyone else is, I'll just bump up my price again to undercut the cheapest price by 1 Gil.

I often cut by about 10% under 100k. Just because it's faster. Sometimes I'll even buy the cheapest one if it's massively cheaper, that way. They get their gil. And now I can get mine. But idc personally. I'm not a market king or a Crafter or gatherer. So I fatten the economy PLENTY by buying stuff with my own gil.

[Deceptus]

Because I want to sell things?

You don't sell them being the same price as everyone else.

[Bright-Flower]

I'm usually just being impatient. Once in a while however I'll find something that, according to the actual sale history, is grossly overpriced so I'll cut it down to something I think may actually sell. Or for things like pets from new dungeons etc where I know the price on them is going to crash once more and more people are running the dungeons and the pets are flowing.

[Jennah]

I usually have all my prices end in 999, because psychology. And at this point, habit.
... some people decide this means I'm intentionally undercutting them by 1 gil, and occasionally I hear a massive hissy fit.