Undercutting

[Eriane_Elis]

As an end game crafter myself whom also undercuts and ensures fair value, undercutting subject comes up usually by first time crafters getting involved in savage drop day with crafted gear. They don't understand the market won't pay 3.5 million for a i580 chest, it's not even worth 25% of that in material costs. People who are in the club know how much material costs are and what a reasonable profit is, not something like 500%

People pay that just fine and it should cost that much considering how much time, cost and effort it takes to reach that point as a omni gatherer / crafter plus the material expenses etc... Look at overmelding, it cost me like 15mil+ just for gathering. I don't remember how much it was for crafting and I didn't fully overmeld but it was about the same. There are those that just want to rule the MB and crash it on day 1, every time. Even though people are gladly paying millions for each piece of armor, they bring it down to 100k in a matter of hours. I don't understand their logic, maybe it's market bots gone wild, one-upping each other every few minutes? It happens every time and it's always the same people competing with each other. This is the perfect time to make everything overpriced because server hopping is problematic during peak-hours, but some people think a quick gil is a quick gil and nothing more. It's something we all learn to accept despite the real cost of gathering and crafting things should be much, much higher in reality. But as long as people are willing to sell at a cheap price, the market will always be against omni-gatherers and omni-crafters.

[Risvertasashi]

People pay that just fine and it should cost that much considering how much time, cost and effort it takes to reach that point as a omni gatherer / crafter plus the material expenses etc... Look at overmelding, it cost me like 15mil+ just for gathering. I don't remember how much it was for crafting and I didn't fully overmeld but it was about the same. There are those that just want to rule the MB and crash it on day 1, every time. Even though people are gladly paying millions for each piece of armor, they bring it down to 100k in a matter of hours. I don't understand their logic, maybe it's market bots gone wild, one-upping each other every few minutes? It happens every time and it's always the same people competing with each other. This is the perfect time to make everything overpriced because server hopping is problematic during peak-hours, but some people think a quick gil is a quick gil and nothing more. It's something we all learn to accept despite the real cost of gathering and crafting things should be much, much higher in reality. But as long as people are willing to sell at a cheap price, the market will always be against omni-gatherers and omni-crafters.

There's actually an economic term for this. It's known as "market correction." Google/your favorite search engine can cover the subject in depth.

[IdowhatIwant]

People pay that just fine and it should cost that much considering how much time, cost and effort it takes to reach that point as a omni gatherer / crafter plus the material expenses etc... Look at overmelding, it cost me like 15mil+ just for gathering. I don't remember how much it was for crafting and I didn't fully overmeld but it was about the same. There are those that just want to rule the MB and crash it on day 1, every time. Even though people are gladly paying millions for each piece of armor, they bring it down to 100k in a matter of hours. I don't understand their logic, maybe it's market bots gone wild, one-upping each other every few minutes? It happens every time and it's always the same people competing with each other. This is the perfect time to make everything overpriced because server hopping is problematic during peak-hours, but some people think a quick gil is a quick gil and nothing more. It's something we all learn to accept despite the real cost of gathering and crafting things should be much, much higher in reality. But as long as people are willing to sell at a cheap price, the market will always be against omni-gatherers and omni-crafters.

How much time, cost and effort it took***
You can level all that stuff very fast with little effort now.