Look, I get it. People want to sell their shit. I do too.
But selling items at break-even
or lower is just plain stupid. (Edit: Break even is selling at 5% NQ "profit" price or lower, since you need to consider the time it takes to actually mass synth vs. doing something else to gain gil, like farming sparks for an hour or farming dynamis/alexs).
Apparently, on Asura (and Odin, by the looks of it), people are selling
cyan orb for ~5% profit (assuming NQs, which, frankly, is roughly what you are to expect from this level synth, since breaks and HQs even the costs/profit out, and a 90+% rate of NQs over all other synths means you have to go by NQ prices) and it is just plain stupid, and a waste of time to do. Anything less than 10% profit, you might as well do something else. 5% or less, you are losing out on making gil
from other sources. I can farm Alexs and get a larger profit from
one run than the time it takes to synth Cyan Orbs at a 5% profit in the same time frame.
So, to those crafters who think it's best to undercut to the point of insolvency, you are hurting yourself a whole lot more than anyone else. You might as well hoard your shit and sell when the market is ripe (in the case of Cyan Orbs, sell during Omen card event).
I expect a lot of people to flame this thread, that is normal, especially those who have no clue about opportunity costs or basic economic principles. So, by all means, come at me bro!