Supply and demand. If something hasn't sold in mabi, it's because of three simple reasons.
1 - It's not something the public really wants in the first place (no demand). Maybe you're trying to sell something too soon after an event in which everybody got one (so I'd save it for resale in a few months), maybe it's some nice equipment with a set effect but the set numbers are crap (so I sell at a lower price for people who will buy it for looks), maybe it's an item that's nice to look at but not too useful anymore or at all (in which case it'll be a harder sell), etc.
2 - Too high of a listed price (demand not exceeding supply). The people who want it are simply not willing (or able at the time they saw your shop) to pay that much to get one. Just because one person was willing to pay a mil for an item doesn't mean that all the other people looking for one will automatically consider it worth more than 500K, for example.
3 - Only a few people would buy the item and none of them saw your shop (supply target mismatch). This is the most annoying sale to get started because the answers are "try putting the shop in a different shop location" and "wait more". Though the plus side is you can often haggle up on the price depending on how much somebody wants the item... Somebody haggled me up 50% on one rare item just because of how hard it is to find people willing to sell theirs at all.
Quote from ╔╦╗╒╕║╒╕;1213165:
I hate this. Or waking up and not even having so much as offer on something :(
When people list items way beyond the going price and just wait for an offer, I most often don't bother offering because...
A - People, quite often, don't even respond to offers that they don't like. This is a waste of time because it means I'm sitting there waiting for a note back, sometimes for days, holding those potential funds, not spending them on anything else. This is a common enough issue that this alone makes me avoid placing offers in almost every situation because I don't like having my gold tied up for something that might not even happen.
Even when people "take" your offer, they'll sometimes just make it their c/o which means you're still waiting, not having the item or the use of your gold, for days while they try to sell the item you're after to somebody richer than you using you as a baseline.
B - When people list items and ask for offers
in-game, it usually means they're trying to sell it for more than the going rate. For most items I'd rather just hop sale locations and scout around to find one that's available right now for an acceptable listing price because that often takes less time and costs less gold than trying to haggle a high-listed item down.
C - Not as common as the first two, but I sometimes get made fun of in return for a low offer.
(The above three issues actually apply to many online games I've played.)
I find that when I list items at ~+20% above the selling rate
at the most (not to be confused with the listing rate), that that's the range where I'll get offers and people who are interested trying to haggle me down. Listing things higher than that seems to sharply cut down on the number of interested people.
Quote from Friggerton;1213183:
I hate that my laptop WiFi card isn't stable enough to keep a shop open all night.
Hook the laptop up to the router via ethernet at night? Or try repositioning the router. Having it up on top of a desk or something is better than having it down on the floor. Try not to shove it in a cubbyhole, etc. Just because wifi signals
can go through walls does not mean that they don't get degraded when going through walls.
Quote from arochia246;1213185:
Much anger when someone crashes your shop so that it's still up, but no one can access it.
This after having set prices on more than 50 of those well dyes.
1 - How do people do that? I've never has that happen. Even when the mats aren't visible people can click on the shop name.
2 - You might consider synthing the crappy-combo well dyes yourself into random-colored fixed ones and selling those for a better profit. Less dyes to price too in case of disconnections and junk.
Quote from Airra;1213192:
My computer often crashes and forces itself to restart about two hours after I set myself up to AFK over night when running a shop. Naturally, nothing sells during this time.
Yay.
C:\Windows\Minidump\
Go there, find the latest three files or so, upload them to this site and link us.
http://www.filedropper.com/