When the auction house arrives with 2.0 have items posted with Materia in them stripped of their materia and returned to the sellers inventory.

I know 90% of the player base would hate this, but player bazaar would be useful and having crafting friends / crafting leveled would be important.

Don't cry so much, there are plenty of sites like ffxivpro where you can post your leet triple melds for sale and you would have that awesome crafting rep you deserve, not that retainer named crystalllalaasas.

Flame on ye flamers!