how to make money?

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I have been reading so much about this game about how to make money but I have a problem: Everything I read says to sell things on the auction house or buy things on the auction house to improve crafting. My problem is that I don't have enough money to afford many things in the auction house, the auction house is mostly empty and doesn't have the things I would need to do that, and the things I find to sell are never purchased.

Someone bought me a tarutaru fishing rod and I have been trying to go fishing. I read this site here: http://www.finalfishing.com/Guide.aspx but nobody buys any of that in the auction house either. I wanted to up my clothcraft skills to make stuff for myself since the npc doesn't sell anything good and the auction house is so expensive, but leveling that is so slow when I can not even save my money I earn from the books [called TOV books?] to buy the crafting stuff in AH because the stuff isn't even there.

So I don't know how to make money in this game. I just use the books and sell stuff to NPCs because nobody will buy it in the AH. I am playing on Leviathan. Can someone please tell me what monsters I should kill that drop items I can sell to players at a price which would not keep me poor? I don't understand the AH/Player Economy enough yet to know what to do with monster drops. My linkshell has helped me with money and armor but I want to be able to earn it myself. I just don't know what to do. It seems like everyone is rich and since they are rich they charge a lot for things. If someone could please make a list of items that sell very well in the AH and tell me (and everyone else that reads this) how to get them (from which monster) I would really appreciate it. I have been saving my wind and earth crystals but I try to sell the other ones in the AH and nobody buys them. I put cheap too for 50 gils because the npc only buys it for 15 gil. But if I want to buy 12 of them it is 1500 gil. Nobody buys my crystals so instead I trade it to the gaurd now.