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.