Quote Originally Posted by Theox View Post
Undercutting is not an in-game offense. Just because you're not making millions doesn't mean other people have to be banned.
Of course it isn't. But it is a problem exacerbated by bots. If an item is listed for 10M, has been selling a few times a week for 10M and the supply/demand is healthy (demand only shrinking/growing a little bit), then that's a good price point. People play their undercutting game and maybe get the next sale. However, it isn't like a crafted item that is readily available. If you sell your 10M mount, you likely won't have another one ready to list.

However, before you sell your 10M gil mount, guy comes in with a price of 5M. The mounts that are relisted with bots, will all crash the price to 5M as well. But no one is willing to take that risk to buy up, let's say... ten 5M gil mounts and relist them. So, the price just stays at 5M. And chances are, the guy that first crashed it to 5M... doesn't even sell his unless he just happens to relist in the 5 minutes between when a potential buyer checks the price and the bots relist.

A lot of what goes on in the MB simply relies on a player deciding " I want X item " and then going to the marketboard and buying it. Price isn't a factor as often as you think. I listed a whole bunch of stuff at "reasonable prices" (5-10% below market rate). However, they sold slow. Let's say I made... 100 different items and listed them all with that minor discount. Some did sell in the first few days. Many did not. Over the course of a week, I relisted most of them by 95% - yes 95%. They still didn't sell.

Why? No player made that decision to buy that item and then actually go to the MB and make the purchase.