I'm working up my second imbuer, on a second account, and was a bit surprised at the prices of imbue related stuff. Good luck even finding a 15 minute imbuing scroll and expect to pay over a quarter million per 0.1 skill scroll, really? The regular gems are ridiculous too, especially in west brit trammel jewel shop where the bank is within reach of the NPC.
I asked around and 1 guy suggested imbuing for clean up britannia points. He pointed out one particular vendor who had a portal to a house in his luna place where you could see a dozen afk smith/imbue toons doing their thing around a trash barrel. That luna place has a dozen or more of each cleanup dye for sale at all times, and most every other item the cleanup guys sells too.
So I'm convinced there is a way to turn raw mats into points for profit with imbuing, but what to make and what to imbue, anyone have a clue that is willing to talk about it? I'm sure someone has made a chart somewhere but I've yet to find it.