Market board logic - how to loose 100k in 8 hours

[KaimaSansun]

way i see, i always match the price of the 2nd highest seller on the list, so it doesn't challenge the top seller and keeps the price usually at a similar amount if not a little bit lower ^^

[Kuroka]

There just needs to be a CD on how often you can lower your price, like 1 every hour or not more then x times a item. that "ill undercut you 500x for 1 gil bc i got infinite tie/bot" gotta end >_>

[AnimaAnimus]

Still beats one guy on our server who will buy all of something rare like the hair from Eureka and then turn around and put them all back up on the board at 5x the price. This is why some things go from 750k to 5m-10m which take forever to come back down to a reasonable price just for him to repeat the process. It's infuriating on the more rare or limited items which are basically the only things he does it to.

[Canadane]

I miss when tax breaks were a thing. You could price match and the smart shopper would buy from you (or them) at an equal price.

[Xatsh]

In my opinion easy solution to stop the mass reposing is put the tax upfront.

Aka you pay the taxes when you post not when it sells. That way every time you pull off a 100k item to undercut by 1 gil you lose 5-8k gil instantly.

[E4EO]

That’s why I only undercut by 1 gil, sure you may think if seen petty, but am I ruining the market for everyone else?

Occasionally I will just say fck it and undercut by hundreds of thousands if gil if the dude I’m competing with just won’t stop undercutting by thousands of gil on items that cost hundreds of thousands of gil, eventually bring the price down to rock bottom anyway.

[Gemina]

That’s why I only undercut by 1 gil, sure you may think if seen petty, but am I ruining the market for everyone else?

Occasionally I will just say fck it and undercut by hundreds of thousands if gil if the dude I’m competing with just won’t stop undercutting by thousands of gil on items that cost hundreds of thousands of gil, eventually bring the price down to rock bottom anyway.

It's not petty to undercut by 1 gil. In fact, it keeps the market on that particular item from crashing. It's petty to undercut someone out of spite. "What's this? Someone put the same item up as me, and undercut me by a gil?? Well, screw this a-hole, I'm going to cut his price by 50k. Yeah! That'll show him to undercut me by a gil!" So the undercutter finally wins over a buyer, at 50k less than what it would have sold. There was also a good chance that the buyer would still buy the item that was not undercut to spite the player that undercut their item by 1 gil. That's how the market is.

That's basically the attitude that the undercutter sets off. He/she usually has no clue how the game's economy works, and thinks they are doing a service when all they are really doing is cutting themselves short. That said; it isn't always wise to undercut by 1gil. If the average price is much lower than the going rate, chances are undercutting by 1 gil isn't going to help much. I totally get severely undercutting price spikes to bring that crap back down to more reasonable rates. Some players think that monopolizing a particular item allows them to set the price at whatever they want. Not so much.

[RyuSaarva]

That’s why I only undercut by 1 gil, sure you may think if seen petty, but am I ruining the market for everyone else?

Occasionally I will just say fck it and undercut by hundreds of thousands if gil if the dude I’m competing with just won’t stop undercutting by thousands of gil on items that cost hundreds of thousands of gil, eventually bring the price down to rock bottom anyway.

when something like that happens I will increase the price with millions until your item has sold or discard/sell it to npc.

[Reyna_Balmore]

It's "Lose" not "Loose" by the way

[Neetborn]

I'm one of those evil undercutters because I am poor in reality and can only use the two retainers so limited space to sell.