(12-12-2014, 09:18 PM)Kage Wrote: It's not so simple. It's not a matter of much greed but a matter of even recuperating some costs.
This, basically. At the end of the day, people have different situations, and that ought to be taken into consideration. Sure, there are people out there who are just in it for the gil. People who are already comfortable, and want to scalp what they can if they're going to sell something off.
Then, there's people who are just looking to cut back on some of their potential loss. People who are looking to make enough gil to upgrade their plot in the first place. People who don't want to feel like they wasted millions of gil for no reason. I don't think it's unreasonable at all for them to want a little something back.
For example, when I sold my plot, it was because without doing so I wouldn't have been able to afford to upgrade to a larger house in the first place. So, I sold it off to a friend at a discount, and gave them months to pay me back. In exchange, they got a ranked up FC, as well as millions of gil worth of furnishings that inevitably broke their price even with the alternative of them buying the plot, the permit, and the furnishings. Given my initial investment into the house, I lost about three million gil, but I was able to let a friend get a home and move into another one myself, so it all worked out in the end.
At the end of the day, it really boils down to SE having botched the entire system to begin with. It's rough around the edges. Some people can afford to cut their losses, others can't. It's a grey area.