Mesos or No Mesos?

Grinding mobs is not a viable source of income. It takes hours of effort for next to know profit.
Boss drops are only worth selling for the 1%.

This basically leaves "exploiting" or farming event drops. Put in the time and make some reasonable guesses about future prices and you can make billions. Then you can spend the time inbetween good events buying/selling FM goods.

I've given up hope on us getting the Auction House.

Honestly, this was how I felt.... However, what makes you think that Auction House isn't gonna come? I remember Nexon publicly saying a couple times that they will get the AH to GMS.