AutoPincher

A lightweight, fully-local Dalamud plugin that undercuts your FFXIV retainer market listings. It reads each listing straight from game memory, uses the in-game market board's Compare Prices to find the current cheapest competitor, and sets your asking price to 1 gil below it. Your own retainers and housing mannequins are never competitors, so two retainers selling the same item land on the same price instead of chasing each other down; with nobody to undercut the listing is skipped or priced from sale history.

No server, no telemetry, no Universalis upload — nothing leaves your client. This is the pinch engine from FFMarketConnector extracted into a standalone plugin with all the data-streaming stripped out.

Usage

• All retainers: with AutoRetainer installed, an Auto Pinch button appears next to its retainer-list controls. Open your retainer list (the bell) and click it to walk every retainer with active listings.
• One retainer: open a retainer's sell list and run /autopinch (or the Pinch open retainer now button in the config window).
• Config: /autopincher opens the window — toggle the plugin, and tune the per-item delay and the market-board request delay.

Do not touch the keyboard/mouse while a pinch session runs; it drives the game UI.

Dependencies

• ECommons (UI automation, throttling, IPC).
• AutoRetainer — optional. Used only for the inline Auto Pinch button and to pause AR's own automation during a run. The plugin works without it via /autopinch.

Build / deploy

DALAMUD_HOME=~/.cache/dalamud-dev DOTNET_ROOT=~/.dotnet \
  dotnet build AutoPincher/AutoPincher.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=x64
./publish.sh   # builds Release and merges into the combined XivHub plugin repo

Bump <Version> in AutoPincher/AutoPincher.csproj before every publish.

Disclaimer

Automates gameplay actions, which is against the FFXIV Terms of Service. Use at your own risk.