if you play final fantasy 14 you have most likely used the marketboard
for those who only buy it might seem like a fun little game… but for us FFXIV market sellers it is an endless contest, of patience that is.
people will do many things, undercut you by 1 gil, or by 10… that i can understand…
but those who sell the items at prices so low they might as well sell them to any NPC merchant… those are the ones i will never understand
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As a someone who frequently use the market board I can guarantee that killing off the competition is in fact the best way to do it.
Oh no, off screen violence!
the freer the market the freer the suffering
Undercutting is fine and all, just remember to keep it within acceptable range of other people's prices. (edit: forgot a two-letter word)
As a free player screw you both
Walmart
There is a special place in hell for people who do drastic undercuts.
Just buy it and relist.
Buy all the cheaper ones and relist for more than your original listing for maximum profit (or miserably lose milions of gil and ponder existence)
So either:
A) You're overpricing your shit and the free market is doing it's job, or
B) You buy their shit and resell for more profit.
As someone who does this in other games, buy theirs and trade it in at higher value. If they keep doing it then you can keep buying it and selling more unless it's an absolutely useless item you're selling. Even right now in paladins there's the Bounty Coin Marketplace. I made 10000 recently by buying and selling the cheap Viktor skin repeatedly
I love seeing heavy undercuts way below the average price, normally it's done by someone who's impatient for money and needs a small amount for something else, so they dump something they don't need they know will sell onto the market. Generally incredibly underpriced items sell almost instantly, if you manage to see someone doing this the first instinct should be to buy it as fast as possible for resale, unless FFXIV's marketplace works differently than practically every other MMO in existence.
Ah yes the universal mmo experience. Back when I played ESO, this happened a lot.
The solution was murder.
99 HQ mats for 198 is a steal
I mean literally, buy that sh*t from the undercutter and sell at a higher price
That is the best scenario, just buy that stack and sell it for profit… The true pain is when a bot sells for [your price] – 1 assuming you are undercutting the rest…
the real experience would be that the other lala would put it up for 249,999 instead
The only times I sold something for 1 gil is because i needed to make space in my bags ASAP and cuz nobody was buying anything for almost a month xD
Fun fact: You should always check for money bags, sometimes people list them for lower than you can sell to NPCs.
Honestly, I should try doing this irl. Sell everything walmart sells but for half price and open the store next door to every walmart.
"3 bread for 400 emeralds, take it or leave it"
Minecraft villagers
yeah legit sometimes buy cheap shit just to resell
I see you tagging this as dnd-
Just bring it to a different server where it is not on the market 😀
Blink one second and you'll miss the next undercutter on the line.
People who are putting stacks with 99 items on MB deserve a very special place in hell. This becomes a thing whenever there's an influx of new FFXIV from other MMOs and it reeks of stupidity. (also, the 2 gil crowd consists of people who can't read tooltips and think the vendor sell-prices are the price of the item…)
Some see a nuisance.
Others see a 249998 Gil Profit.
Whenever someone pulls an extreme undercut like that, I buy it and resell it for a higher price.
I remember a similar experience way back on Gaia Online. I still assume it's bots or someone with business knowledge that transcends human comprehension.
The pain. Ive been waiting on my rosewood logs to sell and people keep undercutting my priiiice
Dunno why he killed her. If I saw a deal that good I'd just buy them all up and raise the price!
Fuckin hate that shit
It's not just an FF thing. It's staggering how MMO players don't understand economics. Everything has a value and selling your supply of the good below market price screws you over, since you get less, and everyone else as now the market has to match your new low. Undercutting only makes sense if you need gold in the next 30 seconds. Otherwise, sell it at the current lowest and get your money within two days. Players undercutting each other all day just lead to a rich veteran buying up the entire auction house to dictate a new, bloated price. It's called resetting and sucks butts.
Times like this, just buy the 2 Gil rare matts and sell them for 250k Gil.
Bad business my guy, you buy her stock and corner the market
I mean, if someone undercuts you that bad just buy it and add it to your own stock
Me trying to get into the market so I can buy a house…
Maaan, this is too real. I didn't even realized I got undercut so bad because im busy with pvp 😭 at least undercut by 100 gil or something, not 90% of my price 😭