Absolutely love it when you spend a few hours farming a recipe and the mats to craft an item only to have one of those “I sElL aT WhAt I wANt” people drive that items price into the ground the next week.
Yet depending on the item it only takes 2-3 other people to also start posting their items at 90g for your items at 100g to never sell again. Leaving you with no other option than to lower your prices or to give up selling it. If you have the capital you could of course buy out the market and reset the price but once again if those are slow moving items you will just get stuck with them.
if something is selling for 100g, list it for 99 to get the sale
however is something is listing for 100g and you start selling it for 20g, then you break it for everyone else as it permenantly lowers the price (assuming you’re selling in bulk)
Only if supply outstrips demand. If that is the case, you will probably see the price drop much lower than 20g anyway. That one guy is just speeding up the process.
It’s only normalising if the price was inflated in the first place. Seen it happen several times where an items drops significantly below crafting cost. How can an items normal price be lower than what it takes to create it?
I’ve seen mounts that cost 60k+ to create being kept at 50k in the AH for months for some reason. How is that not people fckng up a price?
Not everybody has the capital for that. Many people that you see on the AH are farmers that can not afford to reset a market especially since that person could fck up their prices right after it. You guys keep pretending that everybody on the AH is some rich evil businesman just looking to squeeze out every copper from others and that you are standing up to the man by driving those prices into the ground.
In reality, only farmers get hurt by people undercutting more and more on items. Gold goblins don’t care about it as they can just reset a market at will or just sack it with little thought.
Because many people buy materials to level professions. People are producing in excess of demand simply to level skills. this is where the materials are valued higher because the demand for the materials is greater than the demand for the end product.
How does that validate the price being lower than the crafting cost? Indeed there is little demand for the mount, that is exactly why that person likely keep undercutting thinking that it will sell faster. When in reality he was doing nothing but ruining the price.
That is one of the problems that people have touched on here. You do not sell slow moving items faster by driving the price down. You just drive the price down.
Most of what I was refering to was items or mounts from older expansion. Where there is no influx from people lvling up / items that are at the end of leveling. In those cases prices only go under crafting costs because of people being impatient. Lowering their prices with every post just to get their sales while having no regard for other people’s time and effort.
I’m not sure what point you are trying to make. You seem upset that someone is offering a product for cheaper than you are willing to sell yours. That’s competition. You talk about patience, that’s kinda the issue here. If you have patience you will wait for their item to sell for the lower price before selling yours for your price.
Either farmed their own mats and don’t care about the prices or transfered from a cheaper market to make a profit. Russian servers are especially infamous for that as prices are much lower than europeran ones for most products, especially current content mats and expensive stuff.
edit : The transferts are pretty rare tho, but pretty easy to spot as it just flood the market.
There’s also the “I buy my mats from a farmer/bot at discounted prices” option
yeah, that is, what I don’t really understand, why are there still crafting items beeing sold, if the price is lower than the crafting cost… for example
the int flask Greater Flask of Endless Fathoms costs 878g 99s in the Auction house on my server, but the herbs needed for said flask cost roughly 1165 gold… I would need procs of 2 on every single Flask I craft to make a profit, since I am not that lucky, I sell the herbs themselves…
here here.