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

[Rasikko]

I loved running across those rare purchases of really expensive items where it sold for like....1 g, or something insanely low. I never managed to get one of those myself, but was still always amusing to see. Good times!

I was there for Raise III. Remember that? BCNM60 I think it came from. No one never bothered to 1g that one. Infact I think it still reached the highest price(4mil) for a spell drop..(for those that never played, the totally casual player can make 4mil in 4months from doing FFXIV dailies. FFXI..that same person might need 2 years LOL).

Ah yes, Refresh is another one too. Oh wow I feel spoiled by FFXIV now. Lets bw glad we dont have to buy spells/get them as drops. That was a market nightmare.

[Ransom]

I wish the Market Board was like the Auction House in FFXI, all you can see is how much the last purchase cost, you guess from there and then you BID on that item. so it's like guessing how much you want to buy an item for. better than xiv mb

A hundred percent this. It kept prices far more stable.

[RitsukoSonoda]

A hundred percent this. It kept prices far more stable.

It was also fun to post a listing for something like a Cursed Hauberk -1 that almost never had an actual listing posted then buy my own post for the game's gil cap just so my character's name was on the board for years in the history... >.>

On the plus side you didn't do like that one guy this year that spent $500,000,000 to not be President.

[Johaandr]

There is no real instruction.
For example if someone put out a thing for 200k and manage to sell it.
And then some random guy happend to have the same thing and decides to sell it for 100k without looking at the sales log. And then there we have u who sells it for 99k and gets mad by someone undercuts you by 10k.

Market Board has no rules, instructions whatsoever.

[Eldevern]

That's a wrong way to use market board. Keep you price fixed at least 24h, if it sells too fast, it is the price is too low. If it takes more than three days, it is probably too high. It is the kind of balance I'm using and it doesn't work too bad. And there are few others factors but I will not reveal all my tricks

[LaylaTsarra]

Part of what selling is about. It requires lots of time to maintain low price and sell consistently. Some will kill markets it's just part of the game. I always try to maintain low price and it worked pretty well for me but I have lots of time to price check.

[FirstnameLastname]

Or, just maybe, don't adjust and wait for it to sell because in 99% of the cases eventually someone buys it. @OP

[Kleeya]

- I mean, what is this kind of sorcery? If he had undercut that diligently
but instead with 1 or 10 or 100 gil he would have sold anyway and be 100k
richer.

How do you know that it would have sold ? Maybe the buyer did think that 50k was a good price he can afford, but not at 150k. Selling more quantity for little prices can earn you the same as selling less units but at higher prices. Like there is tons of costumers irl in discount shops, while in comparison there is barely anyone to be seen in luxury shops with insane prices. Do you really think there is no money to be made with the former, and that the latter is the only viable option ?

Also not everybody have 8 or 9 retainers. If the two you have are already full, and that you know that tomorrow you will get even more items to sell, you can not afford to wait three days for the old items to be gone, playing the 1-10 gil undercutting war every 3 minutes with other players, just for the sake of not undercutting by a huge amount. While the mogstation is very far from the worst p2w games i have seen, additionnal retainers doesn't make us all equals, and can heavily influence how you are using the market board.

[TwistedTea]

While the mogstation is very far from the worst p2w games i have seen, additionnal retainers doesn't make us all equals, and can heavily influence how you are using the market board.

QFT.

Additional retainers are P2W when it comes to making gil. Just from having more sales listing up on the MB to spamming quick ventures with 10 retainers.

I have the 2 standard retainers on the standard account. My main's retainers, I'm always updating the prices. Alt retainers, I check once or twice daily, it doesn't matter so much if people undercut me because it's guaranteed some of my stuff will sell with the sheer number of things I have up for sale across characters.

So I can imagine,someone with the max number of retainers and on standard account probably will have a much easier time making gil.

[Frizze]

Theres an item i want to buy(a mini - so its something i want but do not need). I check the price regularly. Last i looked there were 30 of them for sale on my server, with 2 people playing the 1 gil undercut game. None have sold in 3 weeks because the prices are 100-150k more then anyone will pay(based on sales history). Sometimes smaller cuts are pointless and you need to make an actual move to get the money.