Selling Items bought from an NPC

[Jesse82]

I've noticed people selling npc-purchased items for many times their worth on the market. For example. selling undyed cotton for 300 gold when it can be bought for 52 from the npc. Is this behavior considered an exploit?

[Silvyr]

no its called idiot impulsive buyers who buy off the market board before checking the vendors.http://eorzeareborn.com/crafting-tie...price-economy/ this is a good list itll get you up to idk about 15 crafting after that its all gathered pretty much.

[Zigkid3]

What Silvyr said, this isn't an exploit. At least in the sense of the game, however it does exploit people who are too lazy/dumb to realize this.
I did this with undyed cloth and cinnamon. More people ended up catching on though, and now their prices have dropped to or below the npc price now. So nothing to worry about.

[Begeta]

I've noticed people selling npc-purchased items for many times their worth on the market. For example. selling undyed cotton for 300 gold when it can be bought for 52 from the npc. Is this behavior considered an exploit?

I have to ask because it's making me crazy... is it just out of habit that so many people can't stop referring to the ingame currency as gold? Or is there some crazy hope that SE will rename the currency to accommodate people that insist on calling it gold? And before the anyone picks up the torches and pitch forks and the "rabble rabble!" starts, it's an honest question not an attempt to insult. It's just one of those things that everyone experiences from time to time where you see or hear something that someone does and even though it's completely inconsequential, the question rolls around in your head and drives you nuts until it's answered.

[Jesse82]

Ok, thanks for the replies. I'll just stick to selling non-npc items for gold. I'm going to need a lot of gold to level up all those crafting professions in the hope of making even more gold. Good ol' goldy gold.

[Kazamoto]

I've noticed people selling npc-purchased items for many times their worth on the market. For example. selling undyed cotton for 300 gold when it can be bought for 52 from the npc. Is this behavior considered an exploit?

Ok, thanks for the replies. I'll just stick to selling non-npc items for gold. I'm going to need a lot of gold to level up all those crafting professions in the hope of making even more gold. Good ol' goldy gold.

Undyed cotton is worth 300 gold?
And since the Allagan Gold Peice is the only gold currency in the game...
And it npc's for 2500 gil... that means an undyed cotton is worth 750,000 gil!
I need to sell some cotton....

[kuikui]

Yea, I needed Rat Tail for my fishing quest and asked online where I could find them. Everyone said the market board so when I check, they are all stacks of 99 and listed for 3,500g. So I do a little research on the web and find the npc that sells them. They cost 27g each. Always check before you buy on the market ward.

[Jesse82]

Just use the libra eorzea app

[Jinko]

I am not a fan of this, reselling for 10% extra is fine, adding 400% is not.

I would suggest to SE that they make all NPC bought ingredients/materials to be bound to the player so a players can't resell them on the AH, gathered items of the same item should not have this restriction however.

[Loxius]

Buyers depends the price not the sellers.
In ffxi it wasn't different, you had a lot of ingredients that you could buy at different zones depending who was controlling the area. If a person don't want to take the time to look if npc's sell the ingredient or item they need that it is their choice to buy it from the market.
Nobody is forcing you to buy things from the market, you can always do the research yourself and see if some guild vendor sells it too for less.