This story reminds me of when you could buy the stuff to make arrows, make them and sell them back at a higher rate in EQ1. I must have made 2000 pp an hour that way. Funny i never thought of selling it on ebay or PA. I had 6 toons making 200pp an hour for weeks on end. At one time i had like 5 million pp. Weeks went by and i had 6 master fletchers. One day i logged in to find my account banned and everything gone.
This was pre PoP expansion so i didn't loose much but damn I must have bought like 10 fungi's, t-staffs etc.