Perfect solution. You answered your own question with the best option. However, no crafter spamming General for customers is going to risk their rep by stealing your mats IMO. You should NEVER tip them though. Hell, they should tip you now-a-days to craft it. All they want are the crit crafts, so a chance at that is tip enough. Look around and you can find someone who will craft it for you and pay YOU a tip I also encourage you to try to find out if the original "discoverer" of the pattern is available to craft for you instead of a schem stealer. Crafters who legitimately get patterns from raiding deserve our business more than the thieves.