I simply cannot understand why people complain that a skill that involves opening boxes of money should possibly net a profitable amount of money.
It's a big galaxy. There are a lot of numbskulls in it apparently.
And no, I didn't make any money in slicing, I truly didn't even know that people were making so much until a dude tipped my 40k for helping him kill 20 or so mobs. I took it up, after reading about the skill, and thought it sounded cool In its current state, it is not. Am I sorry I missed the money fountain? Duh, well yes.
You picked a gathering profession to gather stuff. I picked the open boxes of money skill because, well,
I like opening boxes of money.
But when the boxes cost more than the amount in them... It doesn't take me too many missions to see something is dreadfully wrong in the galaxy.