PSA: Do not undercut people by 50k gil or more

[Krokov]

Always Be Closing. How do you close? Undercut to be next sale.

All that buyers care about is purchasing the first item on the list. They don't care if it is undercut by 1 gil or 100000 gil. That's what they'll buy - everytime.

I don't know about others. But when I'm purchasing something off the market board there are many times I will scroll down. I can actually at times find a better bargain further down the list.

[Ishe-P]

So, l gather material while queuing for cc, and that allowed me to sell raid food and lev food a lot cheaper than others. So l should get banned for it? Is this communism?

Excuse me Mr. Square Enix, please ban this character! /s

[Renalt]

Excuse me Mr. Square Enix, please ban this character! /s

I have Yoshi-P on speed dial. Calling in airstrike now.

[bonickhausen]

i will keep undercutting people, if you dont like it you can just buy my stuff and flip it for profit

isnt that a win for both of us?

[TheMightyMollusk]

I sell to get stuff out of my inventory. It's all just venture returns, dungeon drops, and whatever I felt like spending Poetics or Company Seals on this week. Profit is secondary when I'm at 83 million with nothing I particularly feel like buying. Therefore, I can undercut all I want and feel nothing about it.

[Zebraoracle]

I sell to get stuff out of my inventory. It's all just venture returns, dungeon drops, and whatever I felt like spending Poetics or Company Seals on this week. Profit is secondary when I'm at 83 million with nothing I particularly feel like buying. Therefore, I can undercut all I want and feel nothing about it.

Unrelated but can I borrow some gil

[Arrhin]

i will keep undercutting people, if you dont like it you can just buy my stuff and flip it for profit

isnt that a win for both of us?

Undercut till the market crashes. Buy up everything left after the fire sale, relist at former high price. Tried n true method before the bots came in. Haven't tried in a while now....and I'm pretty sure that's all they do now.

[LilimoLimomo]

Undercutting is not only rude but when you undercut by so much you crash the market, and everyone makes 50k gil less thanks to your impatience. Now thanks to that person Kupo Coffer is only 40k.

You see it as rude because your sole concern is the profit coming to sellers. If you were also concerned about buyers, you would see that it all evens out: sellers make 50k less, sure, that's "bad" for them; but buyers save 50k, and that's good for them.

Lowering the prices on the market is a boon to the people who buy. The idea that this is objectively bad or in any way worthy of GM intervention is silly. All in all, it sounds like you just don't want to have to deal with competing against people who are willing to pass on the savings to their customers.

[LilimoLimomo]

All that buyers care about is purchasing the first item on the list. They don't care if it is undercut by 1 gil or 100000 gil. That's what they'll buy - everytime.

I can understand why you might think this, but it's not entirely true. If I see two prices and one is a trivial amount lower, I'll intentionally buy the higher one. Undercutting is beautiful, but if you're going to do it, make sure the savings is worth more than the satisfaction savvy buyers will get from bypassing your weak undercut.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Unrelated but can I borrow some gil

I ain't givin' no Loch Ness Monster no tree-fitty!