Quote Originally Posted by Sneakaboo View Post

- NPC vendors selling most crafting materials

If you can gather an item than it should not be sold at a npc vendor for a low price.
It removes the whole purpose of gathering these items.
It's also again money that could go from player to player.
It would be a monumentally bad idea to remove this. The NPCs only sell very low level crafting materials and they are there for a reason: so crafters can get started and not have the hassle of having to go out and gather materials right away. Once you start hitting 15+ in a craft that's when materials no longer become available from an NPC and you have to get them from the AH or gather them yourself.

By going with your suggestion, it will make crafting unsustainable. Fewer people will have the patience for it and nobody will end up buying low level crafted items since they will be too costly (time-wise) to create at low levels.