What these gil merchants are doing is all within the constraints of the game.
refer to your instuction manual, in the back, you find the End User Licence Agreement. now, refer to section 4.4 Revocation of User Rights(p. 133). now, lets look at letter (e) and see what is says...
(e) Offering for sale, selling, or otherwise seeking monetary compensation for (1) any Software characters (or "Avatars"), (2) any names, abilities, or character features or other items avalable within a game or obtained as a result of game play or though PlayOnline Service, (3) any points aquired as a result of using the Software or playing any online games in PlayOnline, or (4) access to any PlayOnline user account.
then after all the little letter sections it reads:
"In addition, SEUI shall be entitled to terminate the account (immediatedly and without notice) of any User who was previously suspended or terminated by SEUIand he re-registered using different information in order to avoid such suspension or termination. You agree to indemnify and hold SEUI harmlessfrom and against any losses or damages sustained by SEUI as a result of your engaging in any Prohibited Activities, and you further agree to reimburse SEUI for any and all expenses incurred by SEUI in remedying the effects of such actions.
now, if you goto the ffxi licence agreement (p.143 to look at the article 3: Prohibited Activites and Indemnification). letter (a) (i think they are telling us something if it's first on the list people) clearly states:
(a) Any activities consisting of selling, purchasing or exchanging "gil" by any other currency that may be used in the Game from time to time, characters, and/or Game items for value (including, but not limited to, any payment in kind and any payment in any currency recognized as legal tender in any country, state, territory or other jurisdiction anywhere in the world) through any means or venue, including, without limitation, Internet aauctions or other online exchanges;
now, i have sited for you 2 places in the EULA that says not to do it, yet it continues and it destroying the game economy, personally, i'm thinking of starting an online petition at
www.petitiononline.com. if any of you think this would be a good idea, lemme know, i'll be willing to send the petition strait to SE if i can get a decent ammount of signatures, but we'd have to pass the petition around and get the populace of the game community to sign, not just the quezacoatl server mind you. if SE can't hold to their EULA, i don't think this game will be worth continuing...