Here on Bodhum, the shard sellers are drying up quickly. Fine sand is going for 2k and over. It's not surprising since all the RMT shard bots are now giving up with no easy way to convert crystals.

Pretty much unless you stockpiled fine sand, you're forced to fish for your shards now, or head to the vendor in LL and buy the cheaper fish. The river/sea sand conversion to fine sand isn't really worth your time.

Go and gather a whole ton of brass loach or malm kelp before you start on the other shards though!!