Quote Originally Posted by Axlle10 View Post
do you guys buy your mats off the marketboard? do you gather everything yourself? those 2 questions determine wether you will make it as a crafter. gather yourself = rolling in dough. buy from others in markets = selling price is crap.
You realise that if the final product is worth less than the mats, you actually lose out more by gathering your own mats, right? Sure, your actual cost is 0 (ignoring teleport/transportation/repair costs for gathering the mats). Opportunity cost is that you could've sold those mats instead for more than the final product. There's also the old adage "Time is money." If the item in question is that bad, you lose either way.

Aside from that bit of misinformation, everything else is correct.