So, having purchased a Master's Gi to switch out with the Shinobi Gi that I still wear, I decided to sell back my Jujitsu Gi and recoup the money spent on the Master's.
Back when I got the Jujitsu Gi, it was about 120k, I think...
The Master's Gi was even cheaper.
It seems that in those months, the price has risen considerably, and now Jujitsu Gi seems to sell for around 180k.
Or... at least it was at the time I put mine up for sale...
So, I price mine at 180k as well.
Couple days later, they're selling for 170k.
Couple days later, 160k.
Not more than one week goes by from the time I first put it up in the AH (at which time EVERY price in the recent history was 180k or 179k), and suddenly they are down to 140k.
I know too many people have already made rants about idiot sellers undercutting the market at the AH.
But seriously... when you have something so good going for you, WHY on god's green earth would you chose to take a FORTY THOUSAND GIL profit cut just to sell it a day or two quicker?
And now, there are more up for sale than at any time in the last week.
Now matter how many times I remove mine from auction and re-price it at the current rate, it seems I just can't win.
I need the money,
my recent harvest of saplings yielded no ores at all, not one...
I need the AH space too,
That damnable Shinobi Hachigane is never going to sell (used it, like... once), even when it put it up for 20k less than what I paid for it.
SO... I finally cave. I crumble. I don't know what happened, my reasoning faculties simply decided to go on a holiday somewhere in Bibiki Bay, leaving me and my non-selling Jujitsu Gi standing at the AH counter in Jeuno.
I put it back on auction, for 1000 gil.
yeah, 1k.
whatever.
I just want it to be the next one to sell.
I'm resigned to the fact that "no, I'm NOT going to be able to get 180k for it" anymore, I just have to suck it up and accept the 140k they are now going for. But I know that if i price it at 140k, it won't sell, because tomorrow they will be 130k.
so I price it at 1k.
I know people underbid, in the hopes of getting lucky.
My wife does it all the time.
She'll pick up a stack of Shihei for 1 gil.
She'll get a 90k katana for 15k.
But 140k is a big ticket item.
Nobody bids THAT low on such a thing.
I set the price at 1k, figuring that there will be the usual 1 gil bids,
"nope, cant get it for 1"
then the 100 gil bid,
"nope, not 100 either",
but nobody is going to spend an hour at the AH incrementally raising their bid by 1k each time, all the way from the bottom up to 140 thousand.
so I figured 1k is "safe" >_>
and I'd end up with 140k in my delivery box shortly.
(as I said, my reasoning faculties had left me completely at this time; my mind was clouded by frustration, aggravation, depseration, and disgust)
Several hours later, when out farming goblins in Yuhtunga Jungle, I recieve a lengthy /tell in japanese, which I am unable to decipher. I assume it's the usual party invite. The strange thing was that a /sea revealed the person to be a rank 5 level 25 person seeking in Jeuno.
I am forced to reply with my standard {I'm sorry.}{I don't speak any Japanese.} m(_ _)m
Several minutes go by, when I recieve a /tell again, from the same person, in mixed english and auto-translator, something to the effect of:
mean to sell {Jujitsu Gi} 50000? usual {sell} 140000-150000 ought?
Well, once I figured out what he was asking (didn't take me very long), I felt pretty stupid, but I sure didn't want to admit it.
Also, it was possible that this was the person who bought it, and if they thought I had not intended to be a total moron, they might have been persuaded by conscience to send a little more to me to be fair,
So I replied: {Accident} {Mistake}
and then: {/sigh} T_T
and he replied: agreement ^^;
I never did get more than 50k in my delivery box, so I'm pretty sure this wasnt the guy who bought it, and was motivated to check to make sure that a fair price was really paid to the seller, I think he just happened to see the history and went "OMFG wow what a deal! either that guy Tenmiles is a generous man or a complete idiot! I'll ask him and see!"
I like to think of myself as a generous man, and I believe that those who know me would agree that I am,
but I can also be a spectacular idiot from time to time.
I suppose at the very least I should consider myself lucky to have gotten 50k for it, rather than 1k, which was a possibility.
still, who the hell bids 50k on a 140-150k item?
(>_> people like my wife, lol)