only the poor bitch about prices

[dedalius]

What my point boiled down to though was that you were too stubborn to get the point of Phraust's post and could only see the word darksteel. Replace darksteel with adamant and you start to see the picture, and that is what he was trying to say, but using items more people are likely to know the value of, with numbers that are easier to understand.

I'm not familiar with the selling habits of adamant, but if it sold at a speedy rate then there is no problem. The problem is when it takes you 4 days to liquidate your items. If I have one Adamant ore that I can sell for X amount, and buy an item for X amount I come out much better than if I had 30 darksteel ores worth X amount because I don't have to worry about market fluctuations as much. Because of the nature of liquid economies you have to worry about it a little, but the goal is to minimize it as much as possible. All I'm saying is that having all your gil in liquid form is one, if not the, worst ways to store your wealth.