Gil sellers vanishing?Follow

I have read several threads regarding the gilsellers vanishing, and I can tell you that this will have little effect in the short term, and this is why:

People are starting to wonder if those leaping boots and sniper rings are going to become rare/ex, so they are all making a mad dash on the AH to sell them quickly. On some servers, there have been 40+ emperor hairpins for sale. This makes some people say "geez the only way I can sell mine is if I undercut, but if I do that I wont make much of a profit". This mentality is what is going to keep the prices up. You bought something for 400k, and you expect no less when you sell it. This is why prices will stay up. Even in this forum there was a thread about people complaining about undercutting and reducing profits. When I find the link I will re-edit the post and paste it.
In the long run, prices will eventually go down, but not by a whole lot. There is always going to be a large group of you who will want to get the same price, if not more, for the item for which you paid.
So if you think that by the gilsellers disappearing the price of strider boots will go from 5 million to 400k (or even 2 million), you're seriously mistaken. As long as someone is out there who believes that you should pay the same or more than he did, you'll be paying top gil.


edit:

here's the thread for people complaining about undercutting
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=46&mid=109641955326543145&num=33

Edited, Thu Dec 2 12:34:16 2004 by Abzalom

*comfort Pryssant*

you'll get over it ;)

Good ol' Cjames. She's so full of surprises hehehehe
:oP

Unfortunately, they're still around. A friend told me he went over to Gusgen the other day to look for an RSE chest (we're only L30 atm). When the gil sellers saw him, not only did they call in reinforcements and plant 2 people at every mining spot in the dungeon (probably thinking he was a miner), they deliberately trained & killed him before he was able to open the chest.

I do think a few of them changed their names. If you do a /sea Gusgen, you'll see some really odd ones as well as some of the regulars.

Shantelle :)

doh!!! i'll try to remember that next time..... :oP

It'd be nice if the gobs dropped more reasonable amounts of gil. Why did SE put in so much effort in making an AH anyhow? Sure, it's fun, but what can the AH do that NPC stores cannot?

I'm starting to quit LVLing because of the expenses, it's ridiculous. I play to adventure, not to spend 5 hours killing a specific type of mob that doesn't give me any EXP points, added to the fact that they SOMETIMES drop the item you're looking for.

More time in game = more real green money for SE. That simple. Don't think it'll change.

There are still plenty of gilsellers on Lakshmi. Last night I was camping Stroper with a friend and two members of "Luckgril" were camping as well. We out-pulled them on everything, sometimes taking 2 Napalms at once ^^;

They did get annoying however and after awhile I did a /s told them in Chinese I had heart disease and needed help, they logged.

Awww thanks^^, actually I've gotten teles from Yul before, nice person. And today I noticed that Heng has taken up the 24/7 telespamming.