What is your ACTUAL reasoning for undercutting?

[jazo]

because when I sell is for cleaning inventory so the faste it sells the more space I have to keep cleaning

[Fluffernuff]

Because I don't care who's whining about me on the official forums.

Because I could care less about whoever i'm competing with is a person or a bot.

Because I never think about how terrible my local grocery chain is for being cheaper than their competition, why would I suddenly care about it virtually?


The entire point of the market board is to list items to be sold for in-game money. That's not happening if I'm listing it at the bottom of the list. Sometimes I'm fair, sometimes I undercut. Welcome to a marketplace? If you wanted minuscule amounts of guaranteed profit, you'd use the vendor.

[Paladinleeds]

Simply put, I'm trying to move the items off my iventory and into the hands of other players... want to flip it for extra profit, be my guest, I already have my money. This is why I usually undercut by 50-90%. Because it creates such a price disparity that the board flippers will just snap it up and get it off my selling list. Either that, or someone gets something they need for a huge bargain. I do it in short bursts though, so I don't disrupt the overall market.

[Kaethra]

To sell something.
To tick someone off*.
To corner a market.

*Buddy of mine had an argument in his FC about a week ago about undercutting. Guy was complaining about some item worth about 300k. Said he was being undercut by half. I told my buddy to list the item for 75k just to tick him off. He did and the guy ended up getting ticked enough to quit the FC over it.

Seriously people, you all get way too worked up over this sort of thing. Its an entry in a database and a set of pixels. Its not worth the effort to get upset about. But if you are going to do that, than some of us ARE going to have fun at your expense. If you want to give us craps and giggles. Then by all means get upset. We'll continue to have our fun.

[Bacent]

It's fun for the whole family.

[Kazrah]

Mostly because I'm tired of looking at it in my combined inventory and really don't need the profit.

[Xatsh]

I post things near the cost of the market. If someone undercuts me I will repost it once. If I am undercut again, I reduce the price by 20% a go down to 1 gil.


I do not have time for 10 people to undercut each other by 1 gil literally all night. I will kill market if I have to. If it is on me there is no profit, if I am wasting time doing the 1 gil bs thing I am losing money/progression by not doing something else.

[AvenoMatt]

I'm inpatient, I want gil now and don't want to wait. I try sometimes to sell items for their actual asking price because I want to make the most I can but after several days of others undercutting me I say screw it I want my money and undercut them.

[Fluffernuff]

I like to make things and sell them, i usually look at the price history and adjust my pricing to that of what people are happy to pay, so even if there is one or more of the item for sale, i will place it up and wait until it sells because it always does in time.
Undercutting gets old really fast, but so does extorting, so if your item is overpriced, expect competition.

On a more serious less sarcastic note, I always check the sell history for items i wanna ship out. if theres a full page and it hasnt sold in 5 weeks and want it gone, i dont think the MB will be helping me. It's also nice to have that median price if its a more... uncommon item that isnt in stock. It's a handy little feature