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

[Maeka]

But that is not what I'm talking about, is it? If you sell an item in a flooded market for 1% under the lowest seller, you don't try to get rid of anything. If you continue to go down 10-100 gil every time a seller goes down, you're not trying to get rid of anything, you're trying to make the other sellers go away, so you can take over the market, or just plain like to harass other sellers.

There are plenty of times that I'd get things like Sublime Solutions out of desynthing things, or the fact I've got a bunch of entry-level crafting food on me, and enough fish to make 200 more... sometimes I just have crap I want to get rid of it and turn it into gil. You don't do that by listing 1% under the other sellers. No, I slash 30% off of it because I WANT IT TO SELL and I don't want it still sitting on my retainer the next day when I log on.

I don't care about taking over markets or anything. I'm a casual player who doesn't care about attempting to be a monopoly or anything like that, that just takes too much time and effort.

I have a bunch of crap, and I want to exchange that for gil. Same as anybody else.

If you want yours to sell, and sell now, you price it lower than everybody else, and hope that nobody is willing to go lower than you. If you lower your price by 1%, the chances are very likely someone will lower it by 2%. However, if I sell it for 25% - 30% less, then there's far less chance someone is willing to go lower than that, or, some baron wannabe like you will buy to resell. Either way, I get the gil, and the items are gone.

Also, it depends on how much confidence I have in an item. For example, Slithersand when it first came out. Yeah, I'll list for 500-1k cheaper. Though these days I'll go a bit lower than that, because the markets on those evened out once the initial craze passed. I still get decent prices for it, though, even if I slash 5k off the price. I'll log on next day and it's gone.

In the end, all I care about is keeping my inventory clean, and getting a modest amount of gil for it. I don't want to vendor it for 10 gil, but yet I don't mind getting like 500 or a zonure leather, or some-such. And if I see a million zonure leathers up for like 2k each... I don't mind listing mine for 1500, or 1200 or what-not. Better than holding onto it, or getting 10 from the vendor.