Quote Originally Posted by MoltresRider View Post
My question is how did the marketboard crash like this? In other words, why is everything so cheap right now?
Supply and demand. Supply of certain items has increased on the market board without a corresponding increase in demand so prices have dropped.

SE adjusted drop rates on EX trial materials from desynthesis plus more players are farming EX trials for the mounts now that we're at expansion end plus a lot of the crafted trial items are showing up as loot in Bozja/Zadnor lockboxes. As a result, supply of the materials has increased substantially while we haven't see a similar increase in demand for items made with those materials. Expect prices on these items to remain low until Endwalker's release when players will ignore the old content in favor of the new.

In the case of the Emperor's New glamour items, many veteran players are pricing them low on the MB so new players don't get ripped off paying thousands of gil for something that can be bought from a vendor for less than 100 gil. It could be it's a short term trend and those other players will pull out of the market before long so prices go back up.

It's a free market. Buying low with the intent of reselling high has risk if you don't pay attention to current market trends. Always check first.