Put on your speculation caps

i'm going to go out on a really long limb and suggest everyone pull off their bids for things that aren't in game. move the infl/inf to other toons and sit back and wait. if the nerfs indicate the way the devs go, i see this being a huge problem for people with more then the infl/inf cap.

of course, if i got out farther on that limb, i would say they are going to seed the market but that would be a terrible idea.

I usually just throw things I don't want onto someone nearby in the market and then run off before they can return it. Yay moral ambiguity!

I just post my useless stuff for 1. If someone wants to buy it I might as well make it available for them. Of course the useless stuff gets pulled and deleted if I actually need the slot, but if I post it and forget about the character for two months it might actually sell.

Micronian: Don't you hate it when other people do what THEY want instead of what YOU want?

I don't know if this is the place to offer serious suggestions for improvements, but at the very least it seems to be attracting the crowd most likely to skeletonize bad suggestions in under a minute. The following comes from a position of profound ignorance and is probably wrong on several counts, but that's never stopped me yet.

So, from my worm's eye view, the problem is supply. Specifically, recipe supply. More specifically, supply of recipes in a few classes:
1) PvP recipes.
2) Sub-50 recipes.
3) Pool C/D recipes with high merit costs and low general utility.

And some suggestions for each of these:
1) Rewards for success don't bring people into PvP. People lured into trying PvP by rewards quickly discover that they have a long way to go - probably involving an entirely new, completely different, and highly expensive build, plus many hours of practice - before they have any chance at all for being rewarded for their time. That's not terribly encouraging. Now, once you get a certain critical mass of newbs PvPing, they start plinking each other, and then things stop being quite so lopsided - but you have to give them a reason to start. So, give PvP recipes a chance to drop when you are killed in PvP. Farmable? Not more than it currently is. Unfair to skilled PvPers? They get more targets and more chances for kill drops; what's not to like?
2) When purchasing or rolling for recipes with tickets or merits, let the player specify what level they want to be rolling as. Recipes will be generated at that level, or at max level if the max level for the recipe is below that level.
3) Reevaluate merit prices and drop pools. These were created when recipes were new and the devs had precious little idea what would be desirable. This is clearly no longer the case. When task forces only offered random rolls, the sheer volume of "trash" drops obscured the issue; merits brought the problem to the fore. Certain recipes simply do not appear on the market, so people save up to get them with merits instead of spending them on random rolls, so they're not generated as a side effect of random rolls, so they don't appear on the market, and so on and so forth. Needs looked at, for serious.

Or, I could be wrong.

Your suggestion 1) below is reasonable if the intent is to bring more people into PvP, but it has the unwanted (from the Devs) perspective of doubling the drop rate. An alternative that would keep the total rate the same would be to reduce the killer rate while increasing the killee rate. Of course the standard rule is that people will complain no matter what you do.

Suggestion 2) seems reasonable and many people have requested it before. I don't know why it hasn't been done. The problem really is switching to Merits which you can save up to roll at level 50.

Suggestion 3) depends on the intent. Perhaps you could add more detail. It seems the Devs are happy with the current earning rates. They did go and weight the drops a while ago, so the more desired things within a pool drop more often. It seems to favor things like attacks over controls for example. I started a thread to get some statistics by copying chars to the test server to roll a lot, but things died down then the test server went into Closed Beta.

If the intent of 3) is to make things like LotG: +7.5% and Healing uniques into Pool A uncommon drops, then the Devs aren't gonna go for that.