Swtor players make worse undercuts on GTN than wow players on AH

Your definition of "free" must be different than mine.

Nodes I farm while questing = resources in my inventory with no loss of credits.

In my mind, that's free.

If you really want to control a market price, you have to actually buyout competitive lists..in other words.. fix price through control in essence.

Protip: you and your buddies do not get to set market prices. You get to try. But in a competitive market..you will experience cycles when others discount below your desired set point. Wait it out.. or soak up the discounts with your own wallet and flip them.

By the way.. WoW is a bad reference example.. because the AH is dominated by addons that tend to dampen out price variations. Lazy people just check the addon to see what "the price is"...both buyers and sellers. No such dampening devices exsist in this MMO. You have to actually work the market.

Get over it. List later, or buyout the discounts.

I don't think these morons understand, that they're not even making money. They're wasting their time and money, and ruining the market to boot.

Several of us have basically set the market standard for the price of this particular item for a few weeks now; suddenly a bunch of people undercut the rest of us by like 75% and for this entire week. Cant wait a few extra hours to sell so they'd rather make as little profit as possible? Never had I encountered such outrageous and baffling undercutting in the 6 or 7 years Ive played wow.

You are a moron, because you fail one important thing : That it is fun for me to craft.

Even worse : I never had the intention to make money. Okay, once in the very first 3 days of the new COlouring Modules arriving - but even then I made more than enough money by selling things for cheap.

I craft because it is fun for me. It is as simple as that - and now you will report me for being a Troll because in your mind set you are not able to believe me.

Several of us have basically set the market standard for the price of this particular item for a few weeks now; suddenly a bunch of people undercut the rest of us by like 75% and for this entire week. Cant wait a few extra hours to sell so they'd rather make as little profit as possible? Never had I encountered such outrageous and baffling undercutting in the 6 or 7 years Ive played wow.

Yep this is so annoying. Usually, a stack of 99 Primordial Artifact Fragment will net me between 150k and 200k. But the last couple weeks, after me and others have stacks listed in that range, all of a sudden a couple of people come in and put their stacks at 110k or less! And then others follow suit until all stacks are gone and I have to repost them. Do some people just despise making money?

And we are supposed to care ... because? Why? It's a game - get over it pal. No one cares about you and your buddies wanting to play psuedo-stock brokers in a game. No one but yourselves care how many credits you have. This is a themepark - the primary objective is to play and enjoy the missions and storyline. What you want to do in your spare time is irrelevant to most of the gaming population nowadays. The era of the catasser is over. The age of UO and PKing has ended. Times have changed - no one cares about epeen anymore, or nonessential side functions in a game.

allow me to introduce you to the concept of opportunity cost.

so you gathered those materials, yes? you now have them in your inventory. had you sold them as is? you would have gotten quite a nice chunk of profit. but you chose to treat them as inconsequential and not only lost personal profit, but you also made it harder for everyone else to make profit. you essentially lost credits because you ignored the opportunity you had to make those credits.

but its a video game. a hobby. a passtime. it doesn't matter, yes?

except the reason why these attitudes are something that I wish i could train people out of are not fictional profits in a fictional environment. they translate right into real world and make it harder to near impossible for entrepreneurs, especially creative craftspeople to make a living of their ability. because apparently - if your time is not spent in a "real" office with punch in clock and w-2 forms created for you by accounting department - the time doesn't count yes? but unlike videogame - having a day job to supplement all that "free" time you don't think is worth anything - takes longer than dailies, and is not guaranteed like dailies are. (and often pays much less)

so whenever I see things sold cheaply by someone like you on the GTN I both rejoys because hey, fewer dailies for me to do, and sigh because, well that means i have to do dailies in a first place, instead of making steady income off my crewskills etc. and try not to cry when I'm reminded how its translated into real life.