First off, I'd like to compliment you on the excellent choice of being a Duskwight, you are a player of culture.

Secondly, while I agree botting is a serious issue, I've seen them all over the place since ARR, and it's unfortunately why I have to gather my own shards/crystals/etc as I don't want to support that. People selling large stacks or quantities of stacks aren't always bots though. Back in HW, I was able to get a zone or two ahead of the pack and spent days doing nothing but gathering and selling stacks and stacks of materials, some raw, others processed (logs, etc). A canny player will be able to prepare for upcoming patches and be ready to capitalize on an emerging, short-term, market. Sometimes a returnee clearing out inventory looks like a bot too...I've got thousands of pieces of various Skybuilder's materials that I'm trying to dump after coming back and I'm sure people think I'm a bot.

If you're on Atomos and need to level a crafter, please buy my stuff! LOL

Regards,
IQ