only be 200 gil, so you could give them the FFXI Gil and they could send you the item or vice versa. (Thanks to bpfinsa for this information.)

Ok, you might be sitting there going what the hell did all that mean in English. So I'm going to show you how to buy and sell in more depth using actual terms.

The Auction House Initial Menu -

Bidding -

If you would like to bid for items select bid and categories will appear and they should be as follows: (Changed as of 12/15/03)

Weapons
Armor
Scrolls
Medicines
Furnishings
Materials
Food
Crystals
Others

Each category when selected brings up sub-categories except for Furnishings, Crystals and Medicines. I have a full detailed list of what item is what and where it is and it is further down in the FAQ. For this example we will try to buy a weapon. Select Weapons and a whole bunch of weapon types will appear. We'll purchase a sword. So, select Swords from the list. A list of available swords will appear. For the example will try to buy an Onion sword. If for some reason the Onion sword is not at your Auction House just choose a sword you'd
like. Select the Onion sword, or which ever sword you chose, and three more options will come about:

Price History
Bid
Sort

Select Price History and a window will pop up and it will have different pricesthat the weapon has sold at. On my world, in Bastok, the Onion Sword is sold for from 50 gil to 200 gil. The prices for the Onion sword may vary from world to world and city-to-city. Take the lowest price for the Onion sword or the sword you chose and write it down. Also take the highest price from the list and copy it down. No back up and select the Onion sword or your sword againand this time select bid. A price range bar will pop up and you can adjust the price.

I recommend starting from the lowest price on the history list and working your way up. So for the Onion sword on my world I would start with 50 gil. For you, use the lowest price of the Onion sword in your world and in your city and start with that. If you chose a different sword, alsostart with the lowest price and go from there. I would move left once on the range bar to get two digits. Every time you move left on the bar it adds a digit. So I would move left once and up 5 times to get to a price of 50 gil. I would then select bid and hit enter. A message will appear at the top saying Placing Bid. After a few moments a message will appear in the log window saying either you were able to buy the Onion sword for 50 gil or you were unable to buy the Onion sword for 50 gil. The text would of course change to fit yourparameters.

If you were able to get the sword for the cheap price, pat yourself
on the back, because you have good luck and you usually can't get it for the cheapest price. If you were unable to buy the sword continue adding some to the price of your bid until you are able to purchase it. Sometimes you might have to go over the highest price on the history list, but that is rare.

Swords and weapons that you can equip will be highlighted in a sand color. Just because you can't equip a weapon doesn't mean you can't bid for it. There are occasions when you can't bid on items that are on the list. If an item you are looking for has something like this next to it [1], then you can bid on that item. If there is no number next to it then you cannot bid, because that item is not being sold by anybody. If you want to see the list in a certain order, select the item you want and select sort. With sort you can sort the categories by damage, delay, level, job, and race. To return to the list without sorting just click escape or select To List. Sorting is a good wayto find out what items you can buy and equip. When you sort by level it sortsby the highest level. So if your level 10, you will want to scroll all the waydown to the bottom. All the items you can equip will be arranged in a neatorder at the bottom of the list. This makes it easier for you to determine the best possible equipment that your character can equip.

That's about it for bidding.