-Gathering Dilemma
1) My hard work yields me very little in the way of compensation
2) It doesnt sell, why is their 100+ stacks getting cheaper every 30s?

Speculation time. As the game has gone on you have seen a very large Bell curve in production of gatherables\mats\quest given items and even crafted items. 1 day its fine you sell your crafted item for 5k, the next day the curve hits you and it plummets from the hundreds of people gathering and crafting all at the same level. How will the markets fair after this bell curve moves over it? From what i have seen it stabilizes at a very low point, at which its not worth touching.