Oh, so FFXIV is pay-to-win? That's... stupid.

[Aeyis]

You still haven't explained WHY you keep so much useless crap.

I do believe I've mentioned the items I collect are not ''useless crap''

But you realize you ARE hording right?

I have no space to hoard. If I had 2 more retainers, only then would I consider collecting items just for the sake of collecting.

You can make your 5-star 1.8 mil craft items with less than a full inventory (Vanity Items are THE big market and there's no point HQing a stateless glamour item) and there is no reason why you shouldn't.

You only craft small time as you mentioned yourself.
The real money is in producing high level items (be they equipment or vanity) whenever the demand is present. For this you need to keep supplies. Whenever an item I've make sells I can replace it right away because I kept supplies of the materials.

What you say and what you're apparently doing are polar opposites.

It is?
It's pretty simple. I keep supplies of the items I will need. This includes one full retainer tab of (gathering and crafting only) materias, to give an example.

(And for the record, Allagan Crafting Mats sell really well on balmung. I made almost 40k off of three items from T5 today alone) So stop BSing and start prioritizing.

The 2 dawnborne Aethersand I gave my friend sell for 100-200k each (depending on the day). Prioritizing indeed. 13k for a single material is not exactly my defination of ''sell really well''
It goes without saying that selling prices differ per server. But I dont think 40k~ is a great price on anywhere outside of Gilgamesh.