Two Complaints from lower level players

[Kiroh]

I'm surprised you're having this much of an issue finding a crafter to help you make some gear, Balmung is just lousy with crafters that have nothing better to do.

[samnas]

I dont think I sold a single item to npc or on mb until I was lvl 50 (only sold a few things recently cause armory and retainers full). Not once was I close to running out of gil. My armor came from quests or occassionally cheap crap from npc. Gear was mostly irrelevant until higher levels. I spent gil on TP, but easily made pleanty from quests and later leves. Whether an NPC gives 1 gil or 50 gil for useless armor seems irrelevant.