If you see something bought and sold for from for example Littlejoey--- Bigjoey for a page of text got to the website and check what cost of item was 2-3 days ago im sure you will find it was a lot more, in 1 day dropped the cost of a item 5k a pop nice swing for him. just don't lose your gil to tactics like this ^^. Undead skin was the example im speaking of.

This is fair game.

Albeit pretty dumb on Joey's part to do it in such an obvious manner, because people will pick up on it.

Not enough for the price to go back up to what it was. But I guess price is pretty arbitrary in a game like this without any real links to supply and demand in most items.

Who says 5k was the right price? Who says 1k is the wrong or right price? An item's worth is what someone is willing to pay (or sell) it for.

Obviously Joey was fine paying 5k for it, but got tired of paying the 5k and price-fixed it down to 1k to deepen his already deep pockets.. Which is smart tactic, how the rich get rich in the first place, being smart with their resources.

Often times when the crafted item wont sell often enough at a certain price determined by the cost of mats, crafters will seek to lower the cost of mats, in order to lower the cost of the final item so it sells again.

Undead skins make a very limited number of limited use items. Austere robes and slops, Errant pigaches, tundra jerkin, and northern jerkin are not flying off the shelf into people's inventories.

If a price is too low, the items will get bought out, and people wont farm enough of said items to keep up with demand. You may lose money in the short run to price manipulation by people, but you were also probably gaining extra money that you were lucky to get at the high price if the manipulation holds.