@ Dana:
Crafters are willing to sell these for a loss because you can make more gil from the HQ and that's what they're aiming for. They undercut the price on the NQ because they're just trying to get rid of the NQ so they can try for the HQ more.
ima guess its supply and demand. ***stays up for ever, drops, people undercut. who wants to wait 6 weeks to sell something when then can just cut it by X amount of gil? i'm sure if there could be an agreeance on a set price by all of the woodworkers, the problem'd be solved. but in a game where its every man for himself. i cant see it happening.
yeah all woodworking things are starting to drop... more and more woodworkers, sucks because to make gil we have to pound it out 1-3k at a time, or go big for HQ and loss for NQ ~.~
Also now a day there are better pieces to WS/TP in for Sam/Mnk/Nin like Usukane, so these aren't in such demand like they use to be. i remember buying a pair of these for 500k like 6 months ago.