Well you say it killed it, i never had a problem to sell my clothcraft items till Abyssea
I'm going to go ahead and say it. 95% of the people in Abyssea are leeches. Unless you're a level 90 you're a leech. The people in this thread are such hypocrites; if you don't have the best possible gear and I'm doing 75% of the total damage for the alliance... guess what, everyone in that alliance is a leech. If you don't have Atma of the Razed Ruins you're a leech. If you're in an alliance wearing full pearl or pink you're a leech. If you do not have AF3 equipped you're a leech.
So what I'm trying to say is most of the people here against leeching are indeed leeches themselves.
First of all, abyssea exp for 70-90+ wouldnt exist since you would have no chest leeches. No level 70 is going to waste their cruor opening boxes. The "everyone opens boxes" strategy is unfair since many people will obviously just "forget to buy keys" or "not see boxes" or "forget to open boxes".
Raising exp outside would do nothing to change the AH or skill up situation. People will just sync to collibri or smn burn to get to 70 asap.