Title says it all. If your experience is like mine, the entire page is flooded with nothing except people trying to trick crafters into using their own mats for crafting orders. I see tons of orders up on public every single day, and I check a lot of them as well, and never, not even once, is it a crafter providing their own mats, or compensating fairly.
They are ALL scammers. This is a feature for scammers. And before you ask, no I didn’t fall for it lol
Hmmm I think I see your frustration here but I think I have the opposite concern. When I want to place a crafting order I am required to provide all of the materials. I wish I could ask for an item to be crafted, provide 0 of the materials and put 3000gold up as commission. I find it pretty counter intuitive when I have to provide materials that I cannot gather myself ( because it is for a profession that I dont have ). So now I need to go to the AH and buy the materials and ask for a crafter to make it. At that point im not going to put a high commission because I have already paided for the materials.
It seems like the crafting system should work like this: Anyone can place an order for what they want i.e. profession equipment enchanting scrolls weapons/armor etc. They offer gold as compensation and then the crafter fulfills the order with their own materials. People who only want to have gathering professions post them on the AH. Crafters either farm their own materials or buy the off the AH. Then people who want to fulfills orders can use the materials and get a decent pay out.