Ok, consider this the sequel to "December is coming" (Original title)
Now, as we know the IGE Xmas sale didn't occur because SE swung the ban hammer around and hit almost every RMT, and a botter, thus ridding us of several billion gil, and making large amounts of gil harder to obtain, thus making item value drop.
Prices from what I seen are finally going back up. Scorpion Harness went from 1.2 climbing back to 1.35/1.4, Noble's tunic rose from 2.5M back to 3 Million, while I notice other items bounce up and down between sellers, clearly showing impatient undercutters. Now, last year around Febuary prices began reverting, my server is crawling with fish botters, and our gigas friends in Delkfutt had a recent population decrease from some local Dragoons and Red Mages. So people realize more gil's flooding our streets.
Now from what I mentioned above, Clothcraft and Bonecraft items were rising. With this said, let's say farmers gouged prices on materials from those 2. Prices will rise, and other crafters will see Mr. Bonecrafter's SH worth more (probably losing gil technically), and he'll begin rising his prices too. The chain continues.
So, think it's time to gouge?