RMT at the AHFollow

Look what I found today on ffxi.com:

http://www.ffxiah.com/player.php?id=1169747

http://www.ffxiah.com/player.php?id=1168929

I would be very careful about buying astrals, snipers, woodmans or elusive earrings on the AH because you may be paying a stupid RMT price for them.

They're doing that to Penitent's Ropes too, going for a steady 150k for the last inf weeks and then suddenly they're magically 350k-400k for 10 transactions...

All it takes is for real people to not buy those things that are being severely price gouged, eventually the AH fees will just do them in.

I still wonder if Nyanhime is Auction House RMT.

This is seriously ticking me off though. I have been camping the AH for over a week now trying to get a Woodsman ring. AH history 90-100k, and I have bid up to 110k with 4 on AH with no results. Then all the sudden a couple sell for 190k then back down they go to 90-100k. I could afford to pay more, but I feel like they win that way and I can't bring myself to give them my gil. I wish RMT and all their stupid games would just go away already.

It's unfortunate that this goes on but it's been going on a long time - Myself, Praxis and Dreauce needed a Penitants Rope each and Dreauce had been trying to buy one @ 150k for a couple of weeks with no luck, even after going up to 200k he couldn't get one....in the end rather than messing around trying to wait for the price fixing to sort itself out we just went and did the BCNM ourselves. We went 3/6 on the Rope and it was worth every last seal.

There are so many examples of price fixing and it's pretty easy to find the people doing it - ffxiah.com is a godsend for that.

That is completely opposite. Crafters are adding items to the game; Nyanhime is essentially deleting them. Why would you hate someone who's adding items? That's like hating someone for farming beehive chips. And deleting items also raises the prices. Similar to say buying up all the Astral Rings, or Snipers Rings, and raising the prices.

I don't like that in order to get a Shellra IV scroll, I no longer have the convenience that I would have had from buying it from the Auction house because Nyanhime (whos is always standing in lower jeuno for hours and could even potentially be a bot) is always buying them to make a tiny amount of profit.

Let's say though that you wanted a Mantra Belt. They only come from BCNM40, and they're quite cheap. They sell on the AH usually for 1k.
http://www.ffxiah.com/item.php?id=15287&stack=0&sid=25

So Nyanhime buys them all. I think it's a little ridiculous to spend 40 seals for a shot at getting a mantra belt instead of buying it from the auction house for 1k. Granted if you do Under Observation you may get a PCC but that's aside from the point. You may not be able to get it because Nyanhime decided that he wanted to make a few hundred gil.

Personally, I would rather someone else have the 1k item from the auction house if they really want the item rather than making myself an extra 200 gil. But that's because I don't delete items from the server for minimal profits, and I try to think of other people within reason.

And as far as making 70k gil a week from standing at the auction house all day each day? It's only really worth it if you're AFK botting, and if you're doing that you're a Richard.
You could easily go out and make MORE than that 70k in a day rather than standing at the auction house all day deleting items from the game.



I could but I'm not a douche like Nyanhime, so I don't. Nothing is stopping me from farming on EXP mobs in heavily used camps either (like farming silk thread in the crawler's nest for leveling clothcraft), but you won't see me doing something like that either.

And for the record, I hated Nyanhime the moment I noticed he what he was doing. I did hate him more later when I was actually affected by it, but it's not just a personal thing.

Edited, Feb 28th 2008 10:08pm by Annalise

I buy stuff of the AH if I can NPC it for more, madness not too. A lot of the prices get this way due to the constant undercutting that is a signature of RMT trying to trap a market. There is a number of things that I farm, that NPC for higher than the AH price. So when I see those items on the AH I buy them up. I don't camp the AH, but i check on my way to NPC.

I don't really see it as being the same thing that the OP has noticed, I don't racketeer with other players. I just exploit AH traders that don't do their research.

Conversely I can buy a number of items from NPC cheaper than the AH, I also buy up these and sell them on the AH. I can pretty much make an extra 10-20k every time I visit Jeuno just from Buying low and selling higher.

Would you suggest that I don't buy them, or sell them, just because I can make a profit?



Not really, these people are working in a group to be able to do that, and I do not agree with it as they are fixing prices.

The only reason the other method works, is because the prices DON'T go up, if they did then there wouldn't be a profit to make. This would make the crafter's in the wrong, they keep the price down that low, where it no longer became sensible to sell to AH, and some half-wit keeps putting the stuff on the AH. If they didn't then this item would NEVER be available from AH until the price rose above that of NPC+AH fee, and we know what people think of rising prices.



I am sure that there are crafted skill up items that fetch a similar or better price from NPC than AH, are all crafters who do this instead bad people?

The OP has just given us a great example of how farming higher priced items for a huge profit can fail, as it is pretty much impossible to check the AH for price history, at least a price with any integrity.

My playtime is limited, I can project how much gil i can make per farming session by selling to NPC, the profit is instant, so storage is kept free.

Gonna' throw a little something out there, no essays or anything for me this time around. I'm not even going to take a side.

But yeah, just keep in mind that everything the RMT can repeatedly sell to each other on the AH in an attempt to jack the price up came from, well... somewhere.

And I'm pretty positive that if they can obtain whatever this life-altering item may be, so can you.

Furthermore, the first person to seriously pop up on here and say something along the lines of "ez 4 u 2 say cuz u buy gilz" should prolly chill and keep that to themselves, 'cause I've heard it plenty of times... and repeating it is never going to make that true. I'm a broke *** college student. lol, and before college... I was still broke. Fawkes and Arelios never had to pay for gas, cigarettes, alcohol and recreational drugs. I did, and I still do.

You'd be surprised how few things in this game actually entirely rely on gil.

Start thinking outside the Auction House :]

Edited, Mar 18th 2008 1:58am by Arelios

lol, damn DB with the quick fingers and all that. I was still editing when you posted that XD

I'm coming back soon, by the way :D

They haven't done anything since March 2nd, so they were most likely banned. Look for other characters that have up to date dates on them.