Atomos = Inflation...

[Almalexia]

5s is a lot more reasonable when it comes to buying drops >_>

EDIT: & Selling isn't nearly as quick as 2s either. At least 3~4 with lag. So you need to adjust your timing to really understand how slow it was...

I think 2s is average. Maybe I'm wrong, so I took a stopwatch to my GC and bought as many hi-potions of vitality as I could in 1 minute.

I started from an open redemption menu with the cursor over the item. The clock started after the first stroke of Enter. I used my technique of holding the left arrow key after the buy dialog box opens so I would only have to press Enter (holding the left arrow key will automatically move the cursor from "cancel" to "buy" on all future transactions and won't cause the item menu to navigate up a page).

The results after 1 minute:

185 hi-potions of vitality @ 5 potions per transaction = 37 transactions in one minute
800 transactions/37 transactions in one minute = 21.6 minutes

So, actually, 2s per transaction is an over-estimation. It takes less than that. Altogether, it would take less than 25 minutes to convert 12,000 seals into 8000 drops into 1M gil.

See for yourself. 185 vit pots are only 1850 seals. Try to beat my high score!