I don't think that merchanting is a greedy skill, in fact it can actually drive prices down. Think about the cost of laws....you can make them or you can buy them, lets say you buy them and your average price for 1000 is 250 per on the buy at the mag or ape atol. Then you take those laws and sell them up at Camelot for 300 per. There are soooo many people doing this that the price of laws has gone down, it used to be 1K for small batches of laws, now most buy at 500. A person buying 1k of laws isn't going ot pay more than 300 per. So certain forms of merchanting seem to actually drive a commodity price down due to simple supply and demand. I get 50K for doing a round trip to the atol...I don'tthink that's unreasonable.