I don't understand it, I just do not understand it!

[Angelhearth]

Oh, why you do it is absolutely not relevant. You don’t care about others like others don’t care about you. I withdraw what I said, the thread’s title is not accurate at all. It should be: “I don’t understand that people have other goal than mine”.

You know, you’re part of “the people”, you’re not outstanding the masses, you’re neither more intelligent nor more stupid than the crowd you’re part of. Everything you explain here is basic, simple, rudimentary market theory, no rocket science involved here. Everybody understands it and everybody is capable of applying it in game. But not everybody has the same goal than you. It’s that simple. Nobody here is your enemy. Nobody is sitting in a dark cave laughing out loud: “I destroyed FFXIV market, mouahahah! Screw you, Angelhearth!”.

We’re all gamers, playing the game as we see it, with our own goal. Yes, those goals collide each other, and that’s good, that’s called social interaction. Your goal to make the biggest profit possible collides with the goal of someone wanting to get ride of its stuff as quickly as possible. That’s reality of life. You need to accept it because it's not going to change, never.

But with what I read on your last messages, it seems that your inner pressure went down and that’s good. Maybe you just needed to rant a little bit because you burnt yourself on the market. Hope that exposing your frustration and your wealth helped you and that you can go back to do what you like with a lighter mood

Farewell to you, market guy!

I seriously wonder about you.

[Darkmoonrise]

oh, I can help you with that, I'm a specialist about myself! Go on, feel free to ask.

[Themarvin]

Actually, no. At times I have 4000+ items, but they will sell, sooner or later, if you have patience. And patience is what gives you the largest profit, over time. Those people that have 200, 300, 400, even 1000 million, do you think they got it buy dumping stuff all the time? They found niches, maintain those niches, and sell at a regular pace.

Them people, would be more bothered about moving their items faster through the system rather than having to wait all the time, this does not mean that as soon as someone undercut them that they will undercut or buy up the items themself, because the gain would be that they are next in line anyway to sell their items... and also their would be more profit in gathering/acquireing the items for the next batch, than spending the entire time sitting watching the market boards.

If you have retainers full and you never sell anything, then you are not having any profit at all, it gotta move so you can keep refilling the stock for sell... day after day after day..

Sometimes when I switch to a new market... I simply just dump prices down so i just get the costs it took me to make/acquire X items or just only 10%... if everyone follows I just buy up the entire market and stay in it a little bit longer, because I need to movemarket for a more lucrative market... and need my retainers emptied fast so can make gil on something else, and that is done to make space quick for something else... key factor is, you keep selling items you cover the losses when you write off old products at a reduced rate and add new ones for sell.