Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
That's only relevant if selling the raw mats would have gotten him what he wanted. If gil is the only motivation, then yes, he could have gotten more gil by selling the mats. Doing so, however, would mean he gets no crafting XP. A lot of the items that get sold on the market boards are the by-products of leveling crafting, and any gil they may or may not make is secondary. In that case, the goal isn't to maximize the amount of gil, but to maximize the speed at which they sell, so you can free up inventory space for making more items.
You obviously know little about crafting, no non-50's would even be trying to craft 2 star items. (Or have the stats to even try)

For other lower level items, yeah you are probably correct, but that's not what I was talking about.