Extreme Undercutting

[EnigmaticDodo]

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[Enla]

I do it because eventually I can buy out my competition and then resell their item for a profit. It's especially nice when you do it to a marketboard bot.

[Rhus]

The usual reply is it’s not real money. It clogs up my inventory. I want a quick sale. I don’t care about what you want.

Pick one.
None represent my view. Just saving time for everyone lol

[Hanayumi]

Yeah... the market gets murdered so fast now, its pretty annoying, from a solid 1-2m to 100-200k for new crafted gear, downed in a day. Unfortunately there isnt really a decent solution either...

[Doozer]

from a solid 1-2m to 100-200k for new crafted gear, downed in a day.

To be fair, that happens because new stuff starts at a higher price because people list them for a lot, but as more people craft them or become able to craft them, the price goes down because of supply and demand. Super rare items stay at high prices, whereas things that can just be crafted will gradually lower in price until it reaches a certain point. That's just how it is. Common things get sold for less. The end.

[Seddrinth]

It's just kind of fun I guess. There isn't much to do in game atm anyway. I burned through the new patch content already.

[Hanayumi]

Even the rarer stuff from like maps and such plummets fairly fast now, only things that stay costly are some extremely rare stuff that youre lucky to even see on the market, lol.

[Genz]

Gil has no value and item production is off the roof, all prices are inflated. The undercut prices might simply be the correct prices.

[Recon1o6]

yeah its so bloody difficult to make money nowadays without doing the patch day market board slaughter compared to how it used to be. Rampant undercutting, marketboard bots SE refuses to tackle, worthwhile stuff to sell to vendors being destroyed etc
not to mention there's so few markets that stay at a decent price now. The only good ones are certain dyes which range between 230k and 350k depending, at least on adamantoise where everyone is stingy or ludicrously expensive (curative logos 3k on every other server a few weeks ago, 11k on adamantoise O_O)

its took me 5 months to make enough money to afford a mansion (50m gil) this year both at the start of patches and in between them
when i first bought an fc house a few years back before all these bots and exp showers for levelling crafting, i did that between patches in about a month for 60m gil

its absolutely ridiculous and despite people continuously asking SE to do something about the issue eg limiting price adjustments per day, item has to remain on for duration, delays before item is actually on the the market etc they still haven't done anything

[KageTokage]

It is kind of depressing how quickly items tank in price to the "barely profitable" range, though I think it's mostly the rampant bot farmers that are to blame for that, not so much impatient players.