Wholeheartedly agree. What a waste of time and materials if we can't RE this stuff. OP has the solution and this answer from the Friday Q& A doesn't seem to help....lets make that work. " A huge part of the reverse-engineering feature is that it encourages players to remove these excess goods from the economy, which hopefully will bring supply and demand closer to what they actually should be, and should create more space in the GTN without lots of competition." Very tired of wasting all of my crafting materials on stuff no one wants and I can't give away.