Does this constitute harassment?

[Lenivy]

Player A abuses lack of knowledge of players x y n z
Player B abuses ego of player A
Player A is poor victim
Player B is a monster
Players x y n z are ignored cos who cares about morality of player A.

[Breakbeat]

Player A abuses lack of knowledge of players x y n z
Player B abuses ego of player A
Player A is poor victim
Player B is a monster
Players x y n z are ignored cos who cares about morality of player A.

But what about players c, d, e, and f?

Player A abuses lack of knowledge of players c d e f x y n z
Player B abuses ego of player A and C
Player X talked smack about A and B
Player A C F Y are poor victims
Players N Z A B C E F went to get burgers
Player B is a monster
Player F is a helicopter
Player D was ignored, now isn't ignored
Players x y n z are ignored cos who cares about morality of player A
Player A and B now conspire against F, X, Y and D
Player D is sad
Players G K M and W want to know why they weren't included.

=P

[kaynide]

OP, it's not harassment in of itself, but if they are bullying you, you can/should report that.

1) The Market Board is a lot like the stock market. Or fight club. You don't talk about fight club. (or rather, you don't share/tip others on something that's making you money).
2) Rename your retainers, and don't tell people who they are or what you sell in specifics. Keep anonymity.
3) Don't put everything into 1 thing, and don't really trust items with a small amount on sale to keep their price.
4) Consider consumables. Things like dye.
5) You can also just buy stuff from NPCs nearby and resell for a profit. This takes a bit of homework, but it's more profitable than actual gathering in most cases. Something that's 10g from an NPC can easily be 1,000g on MB.
6) Consider time efficiency:

Scenario A
-Teleport Fees: -1,000g (assuming several locales for mats; going with a round 1,000g for ease)
-Time spent gathering everything: 50 min (searching google for location, travel time, etc)
-Value of gathered mats on MB: 5,000g
-Time spent crafting: 10 min
-Final Product value on MB: 25,000g (I am assuming a price for like a bed or glamour or something)
——
Total Profits: 24,000g/hour

Scenario B
-Buy the materials outright: -5,000g
-Time spent crafting: 10 min
-Final Product value on MB: 25,000g (I am assuming a price for like a bed or glamour or something)
——
Total Profits: 120,000g/hour (if you made 6 sets to do the full hour)

[Bsrking5]

Nope, also don't mention things your selling on MB unless you want to be uncut. MB is all about uncutting and price wars. Try more broad range of items to sell from easy NPC to more valuable items. All npcs items list their sale prices so its just up to you to find them to resell them. You can also follow in demand items for quick profit. And whatever you do, don't forget to check the history.

[Fyrebrand]

Please don't advertise items you want to sell in chat. No one wants to see that. Can you imagine if every player did that?

The other player who made a point to undercut you, probably only did it because they felt you deserved it for using /shout chat for hawking your wares. It sounds like they were being a petty, immature, vindictive jerk about it -- but I don't think what they did was against the rules either. If you're allowed to announce your sales, they are allowed to announce they will sell for cheaper. They are allowed to wave at you. They are allowed to respond to you. If they used offensive language or something of that nature, it might be a different story. But I don't think anything will come of reporting them. My advice is to just use the Market Board like everybody else and leave any chat channels out of the equation.

[BaconBits]

No no no, don't listen to these other guys.

If someone starts undercutting you for any reason, even if it's something that doesn't sell very often, you respond by finding literally any and every item their retainer is selling that might have been crafted by them, and violently undercut them in a fit of unfathomable rage. And the second you so much as catch a whiff of your item being sold, just immediately list an item back up, exactly 1 gil underneath their price. Rinse and repeat for months on end until they finally give up and leave the market board in shame. And when they do, send them a nice little /t saying "I knew you would give up eventually ".

I'm totally not speaking from experience by the way, nope not at all.

[DeaconMoore]

So buy his 15 and resell at 100 if that's really the going rate. I don't see the problem.

[DarmaniLink]

I don't have the gil for that and the items don't sell fast enough for me to consider that even if I did
this was completely out of malice

[Almagnus1]

I don't have the gil for that and the items don't sell fast enough for me to consider that even if I did
this was completely out of malice

When I want to make bank on an item... I'm going to be throwing up like 5-10 of an item, and do it at once. If that's what you're seeing, then you shot yourself in the foot by shouting about it.

[Kyuuen]

The most I can say is you can report them with what is given, but you'll never know if anything was done towards the person. SE operates from a punish and no tell approach.

But as others have said, don't advertise what you have on the MB as it will only encourage others that might see said item up there and adjust accordingly to facilitate their sale over yours or put items up in hopes to cash in as well.