Ulrich Sternaxe
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Posted - 2007.01.31 15:03:00 -
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Edited by: Ulrich Sternaxe on 31/01/2007 15:02:51
Edited by: Ulrich Sternaxe on 31/01/2007 15:00:54
 Originally by: Daemon Jax
I'm primarily a trader/manufacturer.
My thoughts on this are:
When I login to adjust my buy/sell orders, I expect to be undercut/outbid. The only question is: By how much? Two things can happen:
1) I am delighted when I see it's only by one isk (or a fraction thereof).
2) I am horrified when I see it's by 100k isk, when the person could have just as easilly done it by 1 isk (or .01 as the case may be).
In either situation, I still undercut/outbid as long as there's profit in it for me.
I wish a lot of the poeple posting here complaining about undercutting by 0.01 ISK and who respond by undercutting with a large amount will read this and finally realize what they're doing is throwing their ISK away while changing nothing about the situation since about 95% of all 0.01 ISK undercutters thinks the same way as Daemon Jax. You can just as well send that ISK to me if you want to throw it away like that :P
I think the problem is that you believe in your arguments about fast moving of your products and stuff like that because you have no reference, you think that if you undercut with a large amount and nobody undercuts you anymore it's because of the fact you undercut by a large amount. But what they fail to realize is that in 95% of the cases it's just that the other guy went offline and you could have just sold for 0.01 isk less instead of the loss you're making now (regardless of building cost, you're making a loss if you sell for less then the maximum possible).
I might be a newbie but I can read forums, it's abvious how the 0.01 ISK undercutters feel from what they post here. Can any 0.01 ISK undercutter post here if they won't undercut with 0.01 ISK again if they can still make some profit? Come on, prove me wrong....
p.s. I've also tried it in the market with ships (undercutting by large amounts while still making a small profit) to verify this, and indeed, I kept on getting undercut. BTW, it's funny driving your competitors prices down like that, and then buy them up and move the price back up and continue the 0.01 game with another competitor who doesn't make that mistake. I would feel really screwed if that happened to me 
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