Mari's Shop way more expensive than Auction House?

From what I understood, Mari"s secret shop can offer better deals but with crystals and in limited amounts. With the last update, there are now T3 Destruction Stones x300, but they cost way more in crystals in the shop than their market value in gold, which is already pretty high.

I noticed some other products like that, for example the fusion materials. Is it normal?

RMT are not going to let players get better deals anywhere else. They will price things accordingly from the market place to crystal exchange value.

Guardian stones at t2 are a good example last time I checked.

For destruction stones there is no point in Mary’s Shop though, it’s more expensive than the already high price from the market.

I don’t know the prices right now, but when I was in T1/T2 breath’s and leapstones were far cheaper than on the market, but guadian and destruction stones were either close to the same price between mari’s and the market or slightly cheaper on the market.

Now that gold to crystal has gone up, it’s probably not worth converting gold to crystals to buy from mari’s shop as much as it was 3 weeks ago when I was doing it.

I checked tier 2 guardian stones for 400 (40) its over 2500 gold or somewhere around there. It’s insane.

And the auction house keeps crashing my game.

It’s literally just destruction stones.
Other tier material also gives more stuff.
There’s literally one that gives 40 life leapstones.

that tends to happen when bots are rampant and flooding the market

Mari’s Shop way more expensive than Auction House?

It’s this way on KR too. You would think it would have taken longer on NA.

At least the potion and consumable boxes will retain their value for awhile.