Selling Items bought from an NPC

[Mysteltain]

This is why I started checking all of the NPCs I pass to see if they sell mats or ingredients. I got burned quite a few times because I was too impatient to check all of the vendors in the cities. Needless to say, when I did get around to checking every NPC, I was rather surprised to see what some of them sell. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you see it), since the game has been out for almost a month, a lot of the items they sell are much cheaper on the Marketboard now.

[Mhyth]

In my perfect market world you wouldn't be able to buy items up on the marketplace and immediately relist them back on the marketplace for outrageous prices either - you'd get a message from the NPC saying 'Hey I just sold you these what are you trying to pull!' (Market transaction denied)

Pricing something 2 to 3 times higher then it can be bought from a vendor from is one thing, 10 to 20 times higher is gouging - there's a reason price gouging laws exist in the real world.

Gold farmers and obscenely rich 1.0 players on Legacy servers have be fixing market prices of shards pricing them far over what new players starting on those servers can afford.

Regardless of being an exploit it borders on unethical - you're bad people and you should feel bad.

[Tirocupidus]

I think it's fine to sell vendor-bought goods on the market board. I don't do it, but it's a good way to make money by charging people for convenience. I usually buy from vendors if it's available, but I know at least one item that sells only in Drybone, and I didn't want to bother going to get it, so I paid the price on the market. I also think it's fine to charge as much as they want. If someone will buy it, good for them.

[rkpost]

The problem isn't that. Suppose you are in Limsa and you need Cotton, if you was in Uldah, you could buy it by 10gil in Weaver Guild, but you can't. You have to pay teleport or ship to Uldah in order to do it. If someone purchase it by 10 and put it on sale for 15, it's fine, they save you time and travel.

The problem is that craft guild shouldn't sell more than 4 or 5 very basic materials. It would be a way to improve gathering and farming, or another craft classes.

[Bufkus]

I used to make money off brass ingots this way early on in the first week of the game. I honestly had no idea you could buy them from the carpenter's guild, and I'm sure many new players who started out in ul'dah and limsa lominsa did not know as well.

It's not an exploit. It's something that is perfectly fine and legitimate. Please remember to factor in the teleport cost.

[Mrbojangals]

I think the current system is perfect. Let the free market work. If you're to lazy to shop around that's your own fault. If the price is to high, don't buy. Buyers from merchants don't affect merchant supply so it does not damage the economy at all.

[Lecreuset]

Sometimes you only need 1-2 of an item. Rather than paying 600 gil to teleport to that merchant, I'd rather just buy it off the Market boards. You're all not as smart as you think. kthx bye

[Wazabi]

I've been buying Hard Leather at 30 (I think) and reselling them at the market for 300 (I think) on the first week...business was good.