Players spamming Market Board with hundreds of the same item. Please change this.

[SamSmoot]

You could just price lower than them, they'd soon get bored of having to update prices on 100 retainers.

Or just sell something else?

They're probably managing the MB sales with a bot program. One click to change the price on all of them, or it could have automatic undercutting.

[Edax]

They're probably managing the MB sales with a bot program. One click to change the price on all of them, or it could have automatic undercutting.

Then you can ruin a botter's day by dropping the price on 9,900 items constantly.

[Iscah]

In this scenario, you'll buy the 10 at 999 anyway. So just sell cheaper and you'll get the sale. Otherwise sell something else.

What's so hard about just selling the 1 ingot for 499? You'll outcompete the monopoly.

From a buyer's perspective, sure. They'll buy your smaller stack of items if you price it lower.

But from the seller's perspective, it's dictating the maximum price they can set for their item. For the person who had to sell their stack of 10 at 999 gil instead of 2000, that's 10,000 gil profit they just missed out on because someone else blocked them from setting a price higher than the flooded one.

Selling single items for a higher amount than the bulk price is normal and logical.

[Edax]

From a buyer's perspective, sure. They'll buy your smaller stack of items if you price it lower.

But from the seller's perspective, it's dictating the maximum price they can set for their item. For the person who had to sell their stack of 10 at 999 gil instead of 2000, that's 10,000 gil profit they just missed out on because someone else blocked them from setting a price higher than the flooded one.

Selling single items for a higher amount than the bulk price is normal and logical.

A player can only maintain a monopoly on 1 or 2 items on a market of thousands of items. If you're trying to move into a market that's totally saturated, then your not going to find much profit to begin with so logically the seller shouldn't even bother.

[Makeda]

They could solve this with a system similar to that in GW2. If I remember right... (and if not this is part wishful thinking and part memory)...

Basically everyone can put their stuff up in whatever quantity they want and it's all irrelevant.

When a buyer shows up, they put in an order for 'X of Y' and the system adds up the first X of Y, starting with the lowest price and moving up X times, and tells the buyer a price - yes or no... if yes, they pay that price, and X of those Y are handed over to them.

So...

Let's say I want 73 Hempen Camise's because whatever...

One person put up 12 - one at a time - one of these is the most expensive one listed, one person put up 43, one person put up 5 at different prices one of these is the second most expensive, one person put up 999 of them all at the third to highest price.

I would get...
11 of the first person's
43 of the second person's
4 of the third persons,
and the rest of my order - 15 more hempen camise's, would come from the last person's 999.

That would mean the first person would still be selling 1, the third person would still be selling 1, and last person would still be selling 984.

- how many you list each time you list them wouldn't matter at all.