What is your ACTUAL reasoning for undercutting?

[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.

[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...

[ElroyDrundan]

I always undercut, because why wouldn't you? I want my item to sell so I can craft more and sell another item. The amount I undercut varies depending on the sale price of the item. Usually by around 100gil for items < 50k and more as the prices go up.

A reasonable undercut is just rewarding the person who pays attention to their sales, is online more, and keeps theirs at the lowest price. If folks only undercut by a little then everyone wins (the sellers .

I've never understood someone who undercuts by a large amount. For the stuff I sell, you aren't going to sell any faster, you just are going to make less. But if someone does I will either price it just below the major undercut, buy their item if is stupidly priced, or if the price has gotten to low, I leave mine at the higher price as it will sell.

[Tint]

I once thought I should play fair game on the market board and don't undercut the other items, just put them on the same price and everyone is happy, right?

Well... this changed at once specific day.

It was in 2.3 when they added desynthesis. As soon as I heared you can get bikinis from fish desynthesis I put a lot of work into my fisher to gear him and level up the desynthesis level. I have leveled my fisher to 50, but abandoned him because apparently he was not able to earn much money. But fishing was fun for me and now I could sell these bikinis, right?

Well, after a lot of effort I was actually the first person on my server who had the red bikini skirt for girls on the market. A super rare item and every catgirl would love to have this, right? Well... apparently not. It was lying there for 2 weeks or so and nobody bought it. Of course the price was a bit high, but not too astronomical and this item is super rare, so I thought the price was fine.

I often checked if someone else also had put the red bikini skirt on the market, but nothing happened.

And then, one day when I checked the market board again, I see in the history that someone else had put his bikini skirt on the market board and had already sold it for 10 gil less than mine. It was only a few hours since I checked the last time.

That was the moment when it made click in my head. I had put so much work into this, the item was lying there for 2 weeks, but someone else was making the profit, just because he undercut me by 10 gil.

And since then I don't care anymore for fair play or whatever. I want to sell stuff. I undercut. That's simply how this market works.

[Windsun33]

And then, one day when I checked the market board again, I see in the history that someone else had put his bikini skirt on the market board and had already sold it for 10 gil less than mine. It was only a few hours since I checked the last time.

Did he actually SELL it at that price, or was that just the price on the MB. If you look through some of the mid to high priced stuff, you will find many items that simply never sell - possibly for some because nobody knows they exist (like maybe your red bikini?)

[Tint]

Did he actually SELL it at that price, or was that just the price on the MB. If you look through some of the mid to high priced stuff, you will find many items that simply never sell - possibly for some because nobody knows they exist (like maybe your red bikini?)

Yes, he sold it. As I mentioned I was looking in the (selling) history, not the market board itself.

By the way I never sold mine. In the next two weeks more and more of these items appeared on the market board and the price dropped a lot. So I just kept mine and stored it on some retainer.

[Jollyy5]

I undercut because I just want to get rid of the crap my retainers bring me while hoping to make something resembling a profit.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I undercut to move my auctions as quickly as possible while also making a reasonable (to me) profit. I have no desire to "spite crafters", but I am also not intentionally trying to "make things affordable to everyone" either. I simply want to get things out of my inventory and free up my market slots as quickly as possible and keep the gil rolling in.

[Allegor]

I just want to get rid of the item tbh. Most of the stuff I put on the mb are anything between crafting reagents, dyes, glamour gear, whatever I just think someone out there may want and be willing to pay more than 40 gil for it. Sometimes I intentionally put an item at half the price as everyone else (say, a map)...and still get undercutted...dude I just basically gave you a 50% discount what the f-