Please just get rid of repairs.

[Elexia]

actually it is the definition of a gil sink

A gil sink (or any currency sink) purpose is to get rid of money in the economy to stabilize an overabundance of what's coming in, it's not doing it's job because there's also NPC repairing.

Let's put it this way, unless you're adamantly trying to meld 4 materia to gear and you're buying top materia constantly, the rich is still rich and will continue to get richer, this means the gil sink isn't doing it's job, because we can counter repair costs after just 1 leve, let alone selling spoils from leveling. A gil sink should be able to take out more gil than what comes in.