Gold boxes items should be able to be sold to NPC. The fact that they fetch nice prices is great. It will encouraged more people to explore abyssea dead zones. There are still TONS of ways to make gil that does not involve blinkering. I never really did it, and I am not poor or in need gil at all. Cruor did pretty much kill the need for gil, other than a source of funding for your relic and mythic. The nerf was in due indeed. The job nerf is not