Quote Originally Posted by Orsnoire View Post
Doesn't change the fact that for the same items, I can turn around and sell them at 5x that amount in the same time frame.

I stand by what I said before: it's pretty disingenuous to state that crafting leves are all that rewarding. To be "rewarding" it should generate at least similar (i.e. 3/4ths or higher) what you can get off the market ward, if not more.
Unless your selling the items to vender NPC's for more then you get from leve's, I'm not seeing the problem here.

If other players are buying items for more then they are worth then more power to you.