Seriously, not trying to troll... this is a very frustrating situation atm.
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Just one convenient example. Notice the sales volume.... over 200 sell per week, just north of 30 per day on average. A handful of users tanked the price to near cost in just a couple days... used to be on roughly a 1600-2k rotation, depending on time of week and good old supply/demand.
One user (not a group, just ONE account) flooded it at a 500gil undercut and took up all the market at first. Then as people adjusted to the new price point and started to try to squeeze their sales in under his/hers.... it started dropping by 100 a clip until it eventually dropped to where it was selling for 1000/1100--just barely over the more common cost to put up a stack. And this SAME user has been grabbing up the lion's share of the sales along the way--even the ones at 1000/1100. A few times it looked like it was going to recover to 1300/1400 again... and then this SAME user comes along and drives it into the dirt again.
Note that even if you farm all the mats needed to craft the recipe items (sugar, butter, ginger, etc.) to make them extremely cheap---you can only craft them 33 at a time (all HQ tiers are Wizards). So one would have to spend a lot of time farming/crafting, or otherwise spend possibly north of 600 gil a stack to buy around half the mats and farm/craft the other half--and it would STILL be a time synch--to only make a few thousand gil a day for the effort?
There are other absurd examples... items whose usual stock sold through nearly EVERY WEEKEND. One such popular Jeuno item was ganked to around 2/3 the previous weekend's price ranges just the other night, virtually freezing everyone else out of the market. Hopefully it can correct itself this weekend when it once again sells through--like it usually does.
I get it... people undercut to grab a quick sale, and with the 100 item limit it will become mor common. I admit it openly... I do it too, but try to keep it in reasonable cycles so it can quickly bounce back. Many people do the same thing--but tend to do it more responsibly, usually giving the market time to recover quickly.
But the past week or so, people have just been flooding the AH with highly consumable items at bargain basement price points.... items they would otherwise already be selling through at a reasonable rate at their more relevant market rates. Key point there... not items that keep mass quantities up at all times, but a small portion of their weekly sell through rate--or even completely sell out periodically. These users are just shooting themselves in the proverbial foot, not to mention screwing everyone else who also has bloated inventories to flush out since the 100 item cap was implemented.
Just saying... please... for the love of Pete people... take a moment to look up the flow of these items and post more responsibly.
/soapbox