What is your ACTUAL reasoning for undercutting?

[GenericMagus]

Because there is only a finite amount of players who want the items becausE gil is both useless and useful in FFXIV.

Almost anything on the MB will be made abundent of, driving the price down/ making it common. Undercutting allows you to sell it faster before the crash happens, when interest starts to wane. We saw this all the time with new glamour that was like 1 mil+ get ruduced to 10k because of Lost Canals/Deep Dungeon.

SE is always forcing a limited interest so sell now instead of never selling later.

[Krotoan]

... so according to the people in this thread you're telling me that every time I undercut something to sell the whateverthehellthisisIdontcareitwasaventure I've got people SEETHING mad when they check the marketboard sell history because they think I'm some Machiavellian villain plotting their financial downfall?

Game just got better.

[Edax]

... so according to the people in this thread you're telling me that every time I undercut something to sell the whateverthehellthisisIdontcareitwasaventure I've got people SEETHING mad when they check the marketboard sell history because they think I'm some Machiavellian villain plotting their financial downfall?

Game just got better.

It's because sometimes it's true!
*Evil Laugh*

[Neoyoshi]

Sometimes i just gotta sell my Fish.

[GrumbleBeard]

[JWag12787]

Do you know how quickly fish spoils man? I don't want that fish forever! XD
In all serious, usually the expediency. I try to keep it no more than 5-10% under though. Don't wanna kill the market. You people who sell at or below NPC SALE value suck. If the NPC is paying you 6 gil, why are you listing anywhere near that?!? You make me need to buy them all just to keep balance XD

[Zeonx]

I like the ones who say they don't undercut they are honest but they are the ones who undercut when they notice their stuff was shuffled to bottom even though the person put the same price instead they go down 1500 gil on everything.
then when they get beat at their own game.

I heard a story that happen a guy kept undercutting 5k so the items went from 60k to about 5k so the he decided to buy everything the undercutter sold.
then the undercutter made more but instead of buying it he melded advanced melding in all the stuff and stuck it back to 60k which kinda made the other person stuff crap.

[kidalutz]

No, this is not a complaint thread.

Everyone undercuts. But can anyone answer this for me? : Are you undercutting out of spite of “elitist” crafters....or do you do it to genuinely bring the price down so everyone can afford it?

By everyone’s definition, I’m a “elitist” crafter but I also enjoy bringing down prices for people to enjoy. What about you?

I just want to sell my stuff and go about my day.

[SamSmoot]

Stacks of five or ten (or one!) will ALWAYS sell faster even if your upcharging out the arse, because that's still hella cheaper than 99 of them, which is way more than most people want or need anyway.

This.. I was looking for a fishing lure required to complete the fisher level 50 quest.
I kept finding finding people selling 30+ of this non-consumable item.. I ended up visiting all the worlds available, and ended up buying five of them for 1K each. Hopefully, I'll be able to turn a small profit selling the extras on my server.

[K3KW4RCHILD]

I tried patience a long time ago, maxed out all 140 MB slots of stuff getting 1 gil undercuts for a week.

I don't do that anymore...