Or you're a retard and have no idea how large the number 1 million really is.
It wasn't that I wasn't able to get them, it was that I didn't care enough to. The thought of 1 MILLION shanks is laughable. BG is populated by the 1% of ffxi that is interested in maximizing all their available assets and time. The majority of the people in the game aren't like that. In fact, of my circle of friends in the game, I don't know a single person that exchanged login points for anything. At all.
If you look on ffxiah right now, there are somewhere between 1500-2000 shanks in bazaar across all servers. Do you really think there is 50 times that number sitting unused somewhere?