Quote Originally Posted by Kaedan94 View Post
Actually, it does... a lot of the time. The problem is that crafters set their prices ridiculously high, to the point that unless the buyer is also a crafter who has a huge amount of gil (which means they can probably craft the item themselves anyway), then it's really only affordable by buying gil.
Price is directly related to to how annoying it is to be able to craft the item (including leveling and gearing), generate materia and then overmeld the materia to make the crafted items useful. If there was more competition between crafters, it wouldn't be nearly as expensive.

It's not the crafters' fault. SE designed it this way.