Market Board RMT Sellers

[Jojoya]

I'm starting to wonder if you can even read? My first post is more than clear. If you had read it then you wouldn't always have to ask the same questions.
Why is it that people post in a thread they haven't read? Is it to drive up the post number? What is it? Enlighten us with your wisdom.

I can read.

Can you think logically? RMT requires selling items for more than you spend to make the item so there is a profit that can be sold for real money. It's not going to occur when someone is selling for less than the cost to produce the item and they're continue to buy more materials. There is no profit to use.

Oh while we're at it... You seem to be perfectly fine with what this player is doing, the way you defend everything, what if it was your server + all the other servers in your data center?

I would do the same thing I've always done when others start selling under my preferred selling price. I find something else to sell. I've had to do that several times over the years, mostly due to changes in Quick Exploration loot tables flooding the marketboard with items I had been previously selling for profit so the prices crash below the cost of materials to make them.

Players with millions of Gil don't think for a second that players who aren't full of Gil also want to somehow earn Gil through sales, but they don't even get the chance because there are players who take the whole market and don't want to share.

Except you can still earn gil via the marketboard - sell something else.

I didn't get rich by trying to compete against others who were selling high value items. I got rich by 1) selling things that others were ignoring that still had demand and yielded a profit even if relatively small, and 2) anticipating changes in market demand that would drive prices of certain items higher, stockpiling those items at the low prices then reselling them at the new market rate once prices jumped up. The latter can be risky and a few times I guessed wrong. Most of the time, I guessed right and made millions from the foresight.

If you're having a hard time making gil, it's because your thinking is too rigid when it comes to the methods to accomplish it. The "good items" are generally the worst ones to target if you want to get rich because everyone else want to be selling them so profit margins are slim.

If you're set on only selling the "good items", there's one more option for you - band together with other sellers to combine your resources and break that player's monopoly. It's hard to maintain a monopoly in an online game where materials have no effective limit on the rate they can enter the economy and there's a dedicated group working against you.

But be cautious - you don't know how deep that player's pockets really are. You and those joining you need to be willing to commit for the long term. You also need to smart about how you break it (ie you're going to have to use their tactics against them with a big stockpile to back up how fast your group can relist the items).

But that also means that the market is no longer free if players can only sell cheap dirt because the good items are claimed by a few.

Free market - The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control. It is a summary description of all voluntary exchanges that take place in a given economic environment.

SE is the "government" in this case. Are they stopping you from selling? No, they aren't. Are they telling you what prices you can sell for? No, they aren't. All listings on the marketboard are voluntary.

I agree getting rid of RMT would be a good thing but unfortunately, RMT is going to exist as long as there are players willing to buy.

This player you are talking about does not appear to be engaging in RMT and continuing to report them for RMT is not going to accomplish anything.

Are they using bots to post their market listings and buy up the materials they need? Possibly. Gather evidence to prove it (Prringles can tell you what to look for and how to do it) and report them for botting instead of RMT. That might accomplish something.