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Originally Posted by Shinto
I usually sell my wares directly, so this can't really happen to things I craft. I was talking yesterday to someone about undercutting, and we agreed that while constantly selling items below their average cost will damage the market, it is actually good to have occasional competitive prices. (Because it prevents things like that being discussed here and keeps buyers interested.)
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Amen to that. There are enough non-crafters who think crafters are all out to steal their first-born as it is. (And who put adventuring junk on the vendor for 500x what it's worth without a second thought, but that's by the by.) Undercutting helps counter the inevitable inflationary trends in any game economy - at least to some extent.
I guess if I were to argue for anything, it would be consistency... and maybe a bit of ethics, but that's asking a lot. Back in EQ2 I knew several crafters whose selling point was that they were expensive - and it works, too, for luxury items and other nonessentials. They were consistent in their prices, their availability, and what they'd make - and they had a customer base.
Then again the latter isn't relevant to the original "Crafting Mafia" question. Sorry.
