the offense in question

I don't normally make posts complaining about or calling out player behavior/prices/etc. because I don't think they're productive most of the time. but my god, this has been pissing me off for weeks and it needs to be said because the people doing this are ruining reagent selling for everyone for no reason.

if you are selling reagents on the auction house, there is NEVER a reason to undercut anything you sell by more than exactly 1 gold

if you list your reagents at the current lowest price, they will be the first items purchased until someone posts more reagents at the same price or a lower price. if you decide to undercut (you literally never need to but I know people will do it anyway), start with EXACTLY 1 SILVER and only move to gold AFTER you can no longer undercut with silver at the current gold price. this will keep prices from plummeting like you see in this picture.

you never need to undercut by more than EXACTLY ONE GOLD at any given time when you are selling reagents. I cannot emphasize that enough. when you undercut by more than one gold, you risk other sellers delisting and reselling or dumping their supply with even harsher undercuts, which will send the price into a freefall and destroy not only your margins (you will need to relist if the supply is significant enough or your auction will expire, so you won't make the same gold you would have) but also the margins of everyone selling that item. reagents are not crafted items; you can't scroll through a list and buy at whatever price you want like you can with equipment. you can only buy at the lowest price from the most recent seller until their listed supply at that price is fully purchased. you then move on to the next seller at the lowest price. by undercutting to this degree, you are literally only screwing over everyone, yourself included.

yes, I know that some people undercut like this to bait unaware/zoned out sellers into posting low so they can scoop up mats for cheap either to resell or to get better margins on their crafts. this is obviously not what happened here, as this happened over the course of the hour and a half it took for me to craft all my exquisite bolts and the supply was not immediately scooped up.

I don't care if this post is me taking a videogame too seriously. I am mad about this, and I'm not ashamed of that. I was set to turn 50k profit on these bolts for the first time in weeks at 125g, and this undercutting screwed that up entirely and made me spend another three hours converting the bolts into r3 storm dust just to make back the cost I spent on the weavercloth to make them. pointless multi-gold undercutting has happened more times than I can count with nearly all tailoring mats during this expansion, and it's driving me insane. if you're doing this, for the love of god, stop. quit screwing over everyone and just undercut like a normal person.